...motherfucking clown out of the White House. Oh, be careful how you answer the question at the bottom of the excerpt. I'm not answering because I don't want this thread locked.
From Froomkin:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/12/11/BL2008121102006_pf.html
Bush on Sports
Bush spoke to an ABC reporter about his faith earlier this week. Last week, he spoke to a NBC reporter about his family life. That led me to joke in Tuesday's column: "What's next? Perhaps CBS could take a look at his exercise regime?"
Ha ha. Joke's on me. Bush sat down yesterday for 40-minute Oval Office interview with The Washington Post -- about sports.
Liz Clarke writes in The Washington Post: "With six weeks to go before he leaves the White House, President Bush has been looking back at his time in office. Yesterday, he offered a summation of one of his favorite topics -- his love of sports, both as a participant and spectator.
"The president lamented the challenge that the hobbled U.S. economy will present major league sports in the coming months, both at the ticket window and in terms of corporate support -- particularly baseball, the game he knows and loves best.
"'It's a repeat business,' said Bush, who was managing general partner of the Texas Rangers from 1989 to 1994. 'If you're unable to get the American family to come to your park more than once a year, you're going to have a difficult time when it comes to your attendance. Of course this will exacerbate the problem.'
"Asked if he'd be interested in succeeding Bud Selig as commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bush firmly rejected the notion -- not because of any disaffection from the sport, but rather, he said, because of a fatigue of public life.
"'I'm looking forward to getting off the stage,' Bush said. 'I have done my duty to my country. I have given it my all. It's now President-elect Obama's time. I have had enough of the spotlight.'
"Fortified by half a cup of black coffee, Bush seemed willing to talk sports on end, joking at the conclusion of the 40-minute Oval Office interview that he only needed to end it because Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was waiting to see him. . . .
"At 62, Bush is physically fit -- the result of a regime that he has dutifully followed the past eight years, directing that a 45-minute workout, followed by a 30-minute cool-down, during which he said he reads and works on speeches, be scheduled on his calendar six days a week.
"By a conservative estimate, that's 2,496 hours spent on a treadmill, elliptical machine or mountain bike during his presidency. Bush said exercise has been critical to maintaining both health and equilibrium.
"'I exercise real hard,' Bush said. 'It helps clear my mind. It relieves frustration. It helps me sleep at night. It helps me get over the really good food they have here at the White House.'"
Here -- exclusively! -- is the full transcript of the interview.
I asked Clarke today how the interview came about. She explained in an e-mail that a mutual acquaintance gave Bush a copy of her book on NASCAR earlier this year, that Bush read it and wrote her a nice letter. Clarke later asked the White House for an interview about sports -- and last week, the press office called to tell her she had a slot.
Meanwhile, I'm still accepting nominations for questions you would ask Bush if he were on Pentathol.
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