POSTED A YEAR AGO, REPOSTED BY POPULAR REQUEST
Some excerpts from Dry Drunk, Is Bush Making a Cry for Help?
By Alan Bisbort, columnist for the Harford Advocate, and author of Famous Last Words. Published in the American Politics Journal.
http://www.americanpolitics.com 9/24/2002
"Alcoholics Anonymous has a name for someone who is a drunk in every way except for the actual imbibing of spirits. They call that person a "dry drunk…"
Whether George W. Bush is or was an alcoholic is not the point here. I am taking him at his word that he stopped what he termed "heavy drinking" in 1986, at age 40. The point here is that, based on Bush's recent behavior, he could very well be a "dry drunk." Of course, he may just be a rich bully boy who will gladly sacrifice thousands of lives to get his way even against the advice of the most respected and mature members of his own party.
"…Bush said he was a 'heavy drinker.' But let's not be coy here. Anyone who has ever imbibed heavily over a long period of time knows that "heavy drinker is the rich man's (or the politicians) code of alcoholism."
"…The question is then begged, and seems to at least deserve some pondering: how did he, at age 58, get so fumble-tongued, incapable of stringing more than two unscripted sentences together, snippily irritable with anyone who dares disagree with him or even asks a question, poutily turning his back on the democratically-elected president of one of our most important allies because of something one of his underlings said about him (Germany's Schroder, of course), listlessly in need of constant vacations and rest, dangerously obsessed with only one thing (Iraq) to the exclusion of all other things (including an economy that is slowly sucking the life from the nation…"
Furthermore, why is Bush so eager to engage in violence and so incapable of explaining why?
***
11:01:28 AM 
|
