Reply #9: From the pictures, Bush got off pretty lightly

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There's a reason politicians are asked to throw out the first ball and not take the first swing at a baseball game. Can you imagine Sal "The Barber" Maglie (one of the all-time great nicknames) on the hill looking down at Little Lord Pissypants? They'd have to take the poor fucker to Johns Hopkins to surgically remove the spheroid from his ear.