PHOTO: President is in dainty form throwing out first pitch

[Bluebear]

AP - Tue Aug 16, 8:01 PM ET
President Bush throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals home opener in Washington in this April 14, 2005 file photo. Nestled among all of the assorted information distributed by the Washington Nationals PR staff about the club's record under certain circumstances _ 'scoring first,' say, or 'one-run games' _ is this nugget: 'With President Bush at RFK: 2-0.' How many sports teams keep track of that statistic? An unusual blend of sports, politics and inside-the-Beltway intrigue comes together as Major League Baseball prepares to sell the Nationals.

[AussieDave]

1. 'With President Bush at RFK: 2-0.'

NOT a statistic I'd be particularly proud of, or with which I'd want to be associated.........

[Art_from_Ark]

3. How ironic it is that bu$h is against everything RFK stood for

[Why Syzygy]

2. Oh no

that's the cheer .. gimme a L .. gimme a I .. gimme a A .. gimme a R

LIAR. rah rah

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. He's just so...so...oh, what the hell is the word I'm looking for?

I've got it: "pathetic."



:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

5. Talking to self: "Don't throw it underhand. Don't throw it underhand..."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. That's one sports-lovin' family.

:evilgrin:

[montana_hazeleyes]

12. What's Babs got goin' on under the shirt?

It looks like some sort of inflatable mini port-a potty.

[Bassic]

20. He's wearing a Nationals jacket

SO HE'S THE ONE WHO STOLE THE EXPOS ARGGH!

[Scurrilous]

7. Nice lob...

...major league baseball has been very very good to George. I can see why he enjoys posing as a fan.

[mirandapriestly]

8. What A Jerk

he looks like he bought some kind of professional shoes or something just for the occasion. He probably thinks he is really in the same league as the guys on the team.

[Generic Other]

9. Hitler was a failed artist who turned madman

Bush is a failed baseball player who turned madman.

[TWiley]

14. I wonder if he plays "Air Guitar?"

He does have a strong tendacy for dress-up. This photo is rich in all of his failings. I believe that a real cowboy would put a little mustard on that pitch.

[titoresque]

10. Vote for Pedro!

The jackass is doing a Napolian Dynamite move.
Or the pee-pee dance? :hurts:

[garybeck]

11. looks like john travolta in Saturday Night Fever :)

[TWiley]

13. Look at the arc on that pitch.

Did it bounce off the catchers head? Shrub has about a 45 degree angle on it.

[texanwitch]

15. Look, Little Boots has new shiny jacket to wear.

He seems to like wearing jackets.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Here's the step which precedes the one in the photo shot:

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

18. HYSTERICALLY FUNNY...

you made my morning. lol

[HughBeaumont]

22. THERE's the photo I was looking for!

The one of HWB tossing the ball like, according to WWN pseudocolumnist Ed Anger, "a hen-pecked wally wussy".

[SpiralHawk]

17. Bush throws like a cheerleader

Which I suppose is an elementary observation. The propaganda image of him as some kind of a Texas cowboy wildcatter baseball stud is all phony, made-up shit.

In fact, Bush is a blue-blood Connecticut Yankee preppy cheerleader. Check the record.

Deal with the truth --- not with Republican propaganda.

[Hubert Flottz]

19. The Lean Mean "WAR pResident."

Somebody hold my hair up for me I'm gonna' :puke:

If bush had just gone to Vietnam he probably could have licked Charlie Cong single-handedly...(pun intended)

I'll bet Osama is shaking in his flip-flops looking at Bush's War Face.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

21. Headline: Chimp tosses pitch, America tosses cookies.

I promise NO film at eleven....

:P

[Cocoa]

23. this shows Bush's tremendous courage

so says Kathleen Parker...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20011105.shtml

<snip>

So when Bush entered the field to toss a pitch - even though he knew he could, even though he'd warmed up - he put everything at risk. Every man in America watching, whether from the stands in the Bronx or the nubby-plaid couch in Poughkeepsie, knew what he was up against. On a primitive, unspoken level, Bush had put his manhood on the line. Before the nation, before CNN, before Islam and Osama himself. That, amigos, takes courage.

America held her breath and contracted her own muscles in sympathetic anticipation of certain failure. Could he do it? He did it. He did it perfectly. Bush knows how to wind up, how to aim, how to coordinate hand and eye, how to follow through, how to hit the target, how to accept victory with grace and humility.

George, you da man, and Osama wears a skirt.

We may be the best-fed, most technologically advanced, militarily powerful nation in the history of Earth, but we are still fundamentally animals guided in part by jungle instincts. A man who can throw a perfect pitch can probably throw a pretty good spear. We cheer the fearless leader who can bring home dinner or protect us from the enemy in the night.

Bush's symbolic act taught America a lesson about the man. He's brave, self-confident and humble.

[DemonFighterLives]

24. Gosh that is awful

:puffpiece:
Ole spearchucker b*sh, He da man! Makes me nostalgic for the old cave days.
Is that article for real?

[against all enemies]

25. Wow, what a great President! He can run bases too.