Bush's Most "Anxious" Moment: World Series Pitch

From Gaza to the unemployment figures to the $10.6 trillion debt, things keep spiraling while W. keeps fiddling. Just as when he was in the National Guard and didn't bother to show up, now, as the scabrous consequences of his missteps shake the economy and the world, he doesn't bother to show up. He's checked out -- spending his time on more than a dozen exit interviews that do nothing to change his image as a president who was over his head and under Cheney's spell.

Asked by People magazine what moments from the last eight years he revisited most often, W. talked passionately about the pitch he threw out at the World Series in 2001: "I never felt that anxious any other time during my presidency, curiously enough."

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[USA2Sense]

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[shengirl]

he never felt that anxious on 9/11? As we were under attack by we knew not who, or what would happen next, all flights over the US were grounded, military jets flew the skies, ready to shoot down planes, and he was being shunted around from pillar to post to keep him safe, he didn't feel that anxious then? What can you say? Other than 8 more days of this moronity.

[isisdawnra]

how about taking the job seriously..

You know.. the presidency????

Oh well..it was just a 8 year stint....
No skin off my nose!

[blowhard]

How about the 4000 plus soldiers who died in that deceptive war in Iraq?

[shengirl]

or Katrina? Elderly people sitting dead in wheelchairs on the streets of a submerged major American city? I guess with the really big disasters he could hide his ineptitude; on that mound before a stadium full of people, he wouldn't have been able to. Incredible.

[PallinAround]

OMFG. This man is determined to embarrass all of us right to the bitter end, isn't he? Never felt that anxious at any other time "curiously enough." Un-friggin­-believabl­e.

[TomInJax]

And thus sums up the Presidency and Legacy of one George W. Bush.

[likeicare]

Is this a surprise, really, to anyone?

[AxelDC]

Why did W leave baseball for politics? He seems like he would have been happier remaining with the Texas Rangers than he ever was as governor or president. Both Texas and the US would be a lot better off had never held elected office in his life.

Does W think that the Presidency is just 8 years or ceremony and pageantry? Does he think he is just figurehead like the Governor General of Canada or the President of Ireland? Does he think he is Cheerleade­r-in-Chief­, whose main job is to cut ribbons, throw out baseballs and host Easter Egg rolls?

As for Cheney being all warm and cuddly, my image of Cheney is snarling at the camera in 2004, declaring that if Kerry won, we would all die by terrorist attack and we would deserve it for not re-electing him!

[Grammy3]

Yes, that's exactly what W thought the presidency would be -- and he pretty much gave us only that, oh yeah, and reading with elementary school children.

8 more days.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Maybe Pops can buy you another team jr.

[whatsthatsound]

Me, I remember some of his other pitches.
The WDM curveball.
The Katrina sinker.
The Economy screwball, for example.

[whatsthatsound]

Make that the "WMD curveball"...
Strike one for whatsthatsound!

[BCubedReg]

Don't forget the "spitball" in the eye of the American people.

[whatsthatsound]

Yup, that too.

[kernau]

Why does anything he says not surprise me? Hurry Up January 20th

[kein-name]

Please, let him go away, along with a string of other people that emerged over the last few years. Too many to mention names. Maybe to his ranch in Paraquay maybe, there he could write all the books he wants, he could not read them, but who cares.... I never want to hear from him again, ever.

[SmolderingRuin]

Sometimes one can barely believe what one reads. His shallow ness knows no limits. The millions of dea ths he has caused mean nothing to this mis erable excuse for a hum an being. 8 more days.

[maikonen]

When I aw this comment my hair stood on end. I was about to write "His shallowness knows no bounds. It is shocking that the carn age he has left in his wake have made no impact on this pitiful excuse for a human being. Even if we made the mistake of placing him in the Oval offce, how on earth did we allow him a second term? One week to go."

[Yurdelite]

I never allowed him a term in office but 59 million d u m m i e s did a second time. It is those millions of people who voted for him the second time AND let us not forget the SCOTUS for stealing the election in 2000 by stopping the recount in Florida. There are millions of people responsible for this truly national nigh t m a re.

What an embarassment to our country that this man can only think of himself once again after all the misery he has caused. Barbara Bush take this mor on back too bad we cannot erase him and Cheney from the face of the earth.

[shirleyfeeney]

If memory serves, wasn't that a pretty crappy pitch? I seem to recall yelling "My Grandmother pitches better than that" at that moment...

[Rog49Thomas]

And one hopes is the basis on which "History" will render its verdict on President Pan.