Stop it Bush Jr. you’re scaring the children
July 22nd, 2008
I caught the video on the ever present CNN news feed at my girlfriend’s mom’s house. But let’s hear it from the inimitable Harper’s Weekly:
President George W. Bush announced that he would now agree to a withdrawal inside “a general time horizon,” rescinded a 1990 ban on offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf that had been imposed by his father*, and tried to give a little Kentucky girl named Emily, who had played in the White House T-ball game, a presidential baseball. The child ran away crying.
The kid literally ran completely off the field when approached by the president.
*It should be noted that G HW Bush started an offshore oil drilling company, Zapata Oil.