re: George W. Bush first pitch after 9/11

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It will never be done because you need a sample size greater than 6, but I'd love to see some analysis on what being president does to your health.

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You promise the world just so you can get the job. You say shite you probably can't believe you would ever say.

You win. You're relieved, you've made it. The pomp and circumstance on a near every day basis makes you think My God, I don't want to leave this shite.

Then, you face the overwhelming, impossible problems of your country you never knew about and all of the stuff you now have to pay back to the party you sold your soul to and you just do the best you can to keep your own head over water.

I respect any man who gets in and gives it his serious best. I really do.

But, the guy who is in office right now has no business being President. At all. It's going to probably kill him before the first term is up and no telling what it will do to us as well.

Great pitch.

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Really weird how everyone always seems to forget that they did indeed find chemical weapons. On more than one occasion.

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You mean the ones cited from the Army intelligence report? Those certainly weren't on the level promised by the administration at the time.

lmao that little shitsucker Fauci wearing his fricking Nats Covid mask outdoors w/ nobody near him. ofc he throws a baseball like that.

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It will never be done because you need a sample size greater than 6, but I'd love to see some analysis on what being president does to your health.

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Carter has lived to be 96 and was teaching Sunday school as recently as two years ago. Clinton had heart issues when in office and is still traveling the world 21 years after leaving office. Bush II is still playing golf. Obama is probably one of the more fit presidents we’ve had. Trump handled the presidency like he handled life, with a ton of energy and still seems to be going fine.

Reagan had mental health issues in the end, but he was physically fine up until his later years. Bush I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease and a form of Parkinson’s, but he lived to be 94.

Modern presidents don’t seem to be impacted as much, other than their hair turning or becoming noticeably more gray.

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I think GWB is probably a good man. Naive in his approach. I don’t view him as evil. I think he was a swamp creature by nature and too trusting.

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I think his biggest issue was he had never been in an elected position above the state level, so he didn't have the connections for foreign policy that one needs for the presidency. So, he turned to people his dad knew - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell. These were guys who were of the older breed and stuck in the Cold War mindset. He admitted he was over his head on foreign policy, and he let them lead him astray.

I do think there were some number of WMDs in Iraq, at least chemical, maybe some rudimentary biological, and that they were smuggled into Syria before the war started. Was Saddam a threat to use them? Probably not right then, and all attention should have stayed focused on Afghanistan and getting UBL.

I wonder how Al Gore would have responded?

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And why Trump is the only real man of the people we’ve had since Reagan.

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Jesus. How do you people type this shite out without realizing you’re in a cult?

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Modern presidents don’t seem to be impacted as much, other than their hair turning or becoming noticeably more gray.

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I would say there is an extreme sample bias there too though. Most presidents have to go through the craziness that is a presidential run, which weeds out people who can't hack that kind of pressure.