Someone sent it to me in an email, funny and terrible at the same time:


With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party, worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic situation since the Great Depression, is reported by a number of well-placed sources in Washington as drinking heavily.

After having tried to explain away the collapse of several Wall Street brokerage houses by saying, “Wall Street got drunk,” it appears that it is Bush who is suffering from bouts of drunkenness.

According to informed sources who spoke to WMR, Bush was visibly drunk at the recent G-20 economic summit in Washington and at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Chinese President Hu Jintao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper were among the world leaders who had the chance to witness an inebriated Bush both at the G-20 and APEC summits.

WMR has long reported on Bush’s heavy drinking. On July 31, 2007, WMR reported: “WMR has learned that the January 13, 2002, incident in which President Bush claimed to have choked on a pretzel and passed out briefly was a cover story designed to divert the media’s attention away from Bush’s heavy drinking. A well-placed White House source has confirmed a previous account of another well-connected White House source that Bush had been drinking while watching a Sunday NFL playoff game between Baltimore and Miami.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4093.shtml

for fun, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irOFAjsnSg0

Famous alcoholics include Edgar Allen Poe, Jack London, Dylan Thomas, and former president Ulysses S. Grant.

Other rehab graduates include Betty Ford, Mel Gibson, Johnny Cash, John Daly, Rush Limbaugh, George C. Scott, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Namath, Nicole Richie, Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Elton John, and **** Cheney.

So, what's your point? Must politicians be tea-totalers to serve in office?

there's a big difference between a social drinker and one who drinks himself into passing out....especially if he's the president of the united states and commander in chief.

My point? Dude, I didn't write the article. I only posted it. Criticize the author.

God forbid you criticize Bush.

I remember hearing about Nixon drinking while in office.

The stories go that he was one of those people that was heavily affected by just one drink. He was observed walking the hallways, pausing in front of the portraits of past presidents and having conversation with them asking what they might do about the troubles he was experiencing.

It's really quite a way to gain new perspective I think. Imagining how a person with a different philosophy might handle a problem.

That story of Nixon made me appreciate him in new ways.

Besides, you know what they say, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

Wow, another BS story written by a hack writer for a site that claims to uphold fair an unbiased news reporting. A visit to the site immediately dispelled that myth as they are a far-left leaning site, replete with a little online store you can visit where you can buy your own "Impeach Bush" shirt or bumper sticker.

I know my "wishes" here don't count but I would really enjoy things in this forum more if people would actually write articles instead of simply copying and pasting the work others have produced. It takes no talent whatsoever to copy and paste and even less to search out agenda based Websites and then attempt to pass them off as a reputable news outlet.

In the small sample of work I read during my short visit to the Online Journal it does not appear that writing is anywhere near the top of their list of things to be good at as it pertains to reporting news.

I think we'd all do ourselves a favor if we simply remember that just because a guy starts a Website, names it the Online Journal and posts dozens of "hate Bush" articles does not make it true. I don't care that they are a liberal site that hates Bush--I mean, these days, that's not exactly a new sport. What I don't like is that they are advertising that they are unbiased and fair minded while advertising Impeach Bush products. Give me a break.

-Drew

Don't you just wish? Dear God Almighty......have mercy...............

So and so said that so and so said that so and so said that so and so said that....

God, if you listed to some of the posters in this forum you would think I belonged locked up in an institution in the Antartic, with chains and tarred and feathered.....simply because I am a Christian and a Conservative Republican....just like President Bush....

Lindyy

Lindyy, can you name one genuinely conservative act Bush did as president? I'm talking traditionally conservative. The closest answer I've got to this question, after asking people for the last 6 years, is his tax cuts, but they more or less amount to corporate welfare.

Drunk or just a stuttering slurring idiot? Regardless he's an embarrassment...

Nice reply..

I don't think Shrub is drinking. I don't need to sling crap at him based on speculation when his real record is so compellingly bad.

I like the guy. Much better than having a potential coke-head in office, but that wasn't my decision.

I agree with Drew. That website is nothing more than a blogger who's been at it a while. And any googled up videos all have that Craig guy poking fun at Bush by playing a clip in slo-mo.

Now, do I think he drinks? of course. Do I think maybe he has one too many from time to time? probably. Does it make me respect him any less? not at all.

Bush has conservatively.. 1) supported United States defense by taking out a tyrannical mastermind (one that could have easily become the next Hitler) 2) given tax cuts to the people who make our jobs, and why not? we have the highest corporate tax rates around and also, the growing unemployment to show for it (sure has grown in Chicago recently, wonder why?) 3) has stood firm in his intentions to support the lives of infants at all stages of life.

And his record at doing what conservatives asked him to do by electing him has been awesome. I'm not a blind follower, however, and as with any president, there are things he could have done better..the two things I note: 1) immigration and 2) restrictions on the housing market

And that's my fair and balanced opinion)

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Yes, so very bad indeed. Boy, if those Democrats in Congress had just stopped funding Bush's war, all the troops would be home now and life would be so much better. But they didn't--they kept funding it. I don't care that people don't like President Bush--again, that is old-sport by now. What I find bothersome and intellectually dishonest is not holding the people who have been shoveling money at this war for years now to the same standard.

I was recently accused (not here) of sounding like a broken record on this point. My response was: "Um, OK." Until someone can explain to me how President Bush is being held solely accountable for a war he cannot and has not funded, I'll keep being a broken record.

-Drew

you and me both...Section 8 Article 1...should just about do it.... ....

Doesn't he have veto power?

great, drinking and snorts coke....doesn't that counteract each other

you forgot charles bukowski

lol.. well, I was referring to the president-elect's past-time. But I give him credit for at least admitting it, unlike the infamous "I didn't inhale". Do I really think he does it now? no.

Let he who has never drank too much pass the first shot of tequila

Lol.. love it)