National Enquirer — Jay Leno had the best joke about this saying, “You mean to tell me that all this time he HASN’T been drinking!?!”
Maybe, if he’s a mean drunk, as previously alleged, he’ll finally fire Rumsfeld.
A Washington source said: “The sad fact is that he has been sneaking drinks for weeks now. Laura may have only just caught him — but the word is his drinking has been going on for a while in the capital. He’s been in a pressure cooker for months.
“The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has deeply affected him. He takes every soldier’s life personally. It has left him emotionally drained.
The result is he’s taking drinks here and there, likely in private, to cope. “And now with the worst domestic crisis in his administration over Katrina, you pray his drinking doesn’t go out of control.”
Another source said: “I’m only surprised to hear that he hadn’t taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was at his wit’s end. I’ve known him for years. He’s been a good ol’ Texas boy forever. George had a drinking problem for years that most professionals would say needed therapy. He doesn’t believe in it [therapy], he never got it. He drank his way through his youth, through college and well into his thirties. Everyone’s drinking around him.”
They were talking about this on some talk radio program and someone called up who had taken Antabuse (I think) and he said that if you drink while taking this medicine, your face gets blotchy. They also had noticed a distinct blotchiness on Bush’s face in current shots on TV.
Anyone else notice this? I know this isn’t proof but it might be another piece of evidence that’s he’s started again.
But how much does it really matter? I personally don’t care if he drinks as long as it doesn’t lower his job performance… and that would be pretty dang hard to do!
Christopher Hitchens makes a pretty good argument that Bush probably wasn’t really an alcoholic but, more likely, the whole alcoholic thing was invented to bolster up his born-again credentials. Kind of like how they built him a ranch to bolster up his cowboy credentials.
There’s no way you dislike this guy more than I do, but using the National Enquirer as a source? I’m not saying they couldn’t scoop a story, but their reputation precedes them.
With this guy ruling around, i’d expect anyone start drinking…
I don’t know who is drinking more, I can only say that I am. Maybe we should have a national day of drinking. Some might say we already do with St. Patricks Day. If they made it a federal holiday, it might just then be official. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and sometimes a mind is just a terrible thing that you must waste, so have a double.
Cool story. Implausible.
If the US Iraq war deaths bothered him (nobody has accused him of being concerned about the deaths of Iraqi civilians) he would try something different; more troops, getting out, something. If the Katrina situation bothered him, he would appoint somebody besides a horse afficianado to run FEMA.
Yeah… Have you seen him lately? I mean, I’m watching his Rose Garden presser right now and he looks like crap!
-A
For anyone who thinks this is futher bush-bashing, and wonder why he doesn’t sue…
reading for you:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20051004.html
Before the 2004 election I told my friends that if Bush was re-elected, I’d start drinking and smoking pot again; it looks as if the president beat me to it.
Oh yeah, he really cares about all those deaths in Iraq. Gimme a break.
I recommend that Bush, and all professional politicians, try some salvia divinoris, or ibogo, some mystical, meditative, visionary type herbal remedy, rather than alcohol.
But these recommendations are from anecdotal evidence, so I cannot personally endorse them based on personal experience.
Forget it. He should listen to Charlie Parker and eat chocolate. A mystical chocolate high would be conducive to altered states of government I hope.
“The war in Iraq, the loss of American lives, has deeply affected him. He takes every soldier’s life personally. It has left him emotionally drained. . . . ”
The spin masters spin. I’m glad to know that a guilty conscience leads him to sympathize so much with the dead soldiers that he’s taken to care for them by drinking himself to death. But, has he really thought this through? To drink; to drink perchance to die; to die; leave the VP to think up a more groosome fate for the soldiers.
It doesnt matter if he is drinking or not. Toonsez the Cat could do a better job than he does sober.
While I don’t claim to know that Bush is drinking, I do know that most, if not all, heavy drinkers (alcoholics?), take on a god-like persona and that the war in Iraq may well have been his way of proving to someone, probably his own father, that he was worthy.
Moreover, such a job as the presidency, where one is reminded every day of his own greatness, cannot be the best “therapy” for one who has not come to grips with his problems. If drinking covers the drinker’s problems, so does the cape of right and might – that is, until a problem becomes insurmountable, then where does the drinker go?
Just my thinking on it.
Hey, a little credit please for the “re-posted” image at the top of this page of George Bush in front of a bar!!!
As originally appeared at:
http://www.underneathpolitics.com/issue02/bushdrinks.html
Thanks,
UP.com
Most recent. I was shocked to read this:
NY Times Magazine, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005.
Interview with Bush chef Ariel de Guzman, Q & A about cooking for Bush 41 and 43.
After being asked about concerns of being poisoned when President travels abroad, he was asked a last question:
Q. What about his drinks?
A. “When he asks for a vodka on the rocks, it’s our guys (Navy cooks) who mix it from our own supply that we have to bring all the way around the world with us. Nobody knows that.”
P. 19 Check it out!
I am separated from my husband because he cannot stop drinking and he has gone for long spells sober. I said to anyone that would listen ( and no one would) why would anyone vote for some one that was an alcoholic–it is like being an astronaut with heart problems. My husband is a billion times smarter than bush and is a democrat and I still would never have voted for him to be dog catcher let alone president.
Nixon was NOT a teetotalar!
I think Bush has been constantly drinking and only sobered up during the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. In my opinion he’s slightly more effective as a president drunk than sober. What about Nader? Is Nader and Bush hitting the keg together if Bush is drinking?
I believe President Bush is and always will be an addict to cocaine and an alcholic. Would you elect Robert Downy Jr. President???? What do you say to the problem his daughters have had from their alcoholic DUI’s? It must be genetic. Why or how could have anyone voted for him? I listened to his State of the Union speeches and campaign speeches and wondered what drugs he was on that he could hardly talk and how did he account for his stuppor behavior? I think it is a disgrace to have him represent the US as president. We are the laughing stalk of the world. I was at the supermarket yesterday and read the article of his personnal problems related to his drinking in the Enquiror. I hope the world and nation see him as he truly is, a man who abuses his drugs and will never conquer his disease. It is a travesty the nation of voters let him destroy Afganistan, and the Middle East and wreck the economy of tbe US. We have no national pride. How could anyone be proud of the chaos and destruction he has created and continues to create. It is an outrage!!! Thank God 2008 is almost here. Surely, he won’t be elected again.