In article , (Bill
Oliver) wrote:

In article ,
Doug Kanter wrote:


She didn't say "Christians". She said "the religious right".

Right. All Christian Republicans. Sorry,
the "good ******/bad ******" distinction
didn't work 50 years ago, either. Bigots are
bigots, whether they make bigoted statements
about race or religion.

billo

The "you just called me a ******" gambit is the only stupid argument being
made here. Let's just call inbred honky rednecks white trash & leave it at
that.

Repost:

GEORGE BUSH, AMERICA'S FIRST COKEHEAD PRESIDENT!

Here are the facts (again) for disbelievers who're strangely planning to
vote for the honest-to-shit cokehead president:

Georgie initially refused to confirm or deny his cocaine abuse. Later,
questioned again about cocaine use, he replied "when I was young and
irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible."

Getting fallout from that "near Yes" reply, he next said that the issue
wasn't relevant. Since everyone else thought it WAS relevant, & he was
the ONLY republican candidate that refused to answer a Daily News query
on this matter, within days he was saying that he wouldn't address
"rumors" & tried a little belatedly to get the cat back in the sack.

Eventually he claimed that he could pass a standard security check dating
back seven years. When this was interpreted to mean he'd used cocaine
&/or marijuana eight years ago, & only after that time could he have
passed a urine test, he ammended his claim & said he could've passed his
father's White House security check too -- meaning he hadn't used
cocaine & marijuana for fifteen years.

Later still he pushed the date back to about 1973. It began to look like
he was really into it only when he was an out-of-control teenager, but if
that was all, why did he start with the milder boast that he'd not done
coke for seven years?? In 1972 when he went AWOL from his
already-draft-dodging National Guard Duty, it is widely believed he took
off because that was the year they instigated mandatory drug testing, &
it's in his record his being reprimanded for avoiding that particular
mandate. Does he REALLY mean to be admitting he WAS a cokehead until 1972
but after his AWOL period he cleaned himself up??? Then it's still a
wonder he previously claimed to be clean for only 7 years

Could it be he was so bonkers DRUNK through that period he's actually not
certain when it was that he last snorted coke? And he kept moving the date
back only as his handlers were able to clear him for another year or so,
after some paid detective work came in?

He has said a hell of a lot about the issue he claims he won't address
but the one thing he's never said is that he's never been a drug abuser.
You'd think he'd just lie & say "No way, no how, never did it, cocaine's
not for me," but is it possible the SHrub doesn't like to lie? Hell no, all
politicians like to lie -- the Shrub more than most, whether about Weapons
of Mass Destruction that didn't actually exist, or about Kerry being a
coward who misrepresented his war record (Machievelli said that if you
want to destroy a good man, take his BEST traits & reverse them, hence the
new anti-Kerry ads from the Republicans saying Kerry was a coward in Viet
Nam & didn't deserve a purple heart -- which ads Bush has publicly refused
to criticize).

So Bush loves to lie. So why not just lie outright & sazy he was never a
cokehead? Only one possible reason: he knows this time bomb will
eventually
explode & the one thing people won't be able to say in retrospect is that
he lied about it. He'll be able to claim he hedged & winged but didn't lie.

Georgie openly admits to having had a severe problem with alcohol until
age 40 (his formative years & then some -- no wonder he's even now not
completely a grown-up!) but when asked about his youthful indulgences of
pot & cocaine, he gets all nervous and slick-willy-like.

Another "rumor" explains his reluctance to just lie & claim innocence:
there exist photographs of him indulging & it's a matter of time before
some sleezy outfit decides to publish them or put them on the net (though
the Bush campaign IS busy trying to netcop the world wide web on this
matter).

There is every likelihood that Bush still abuses drugs, with the
assistance of whitehouse physician Col Richard J. Tubb whose prescriptions
some people have suspected explain Bush's poor language use, losing his
thread of thought mid-sentence, eratic behavior, mood swings, screaming
that top journalists were all "mother****ers" at his handlers shortly
after reporters asked questions about his friends at Enron, injuring
himself with a pretzel, & his unusual number of falling incidents (fainted
while sitting down, fell off his couch, twice off his bike -- Bush has
fallen down more often in the last two years than I have in the last
twenty, & the "official" explanation for these accidents is he suffers
from blaclk-outs). All very explicable for someone on psychotropic
medications or with a background history of cocaine & alcohol abuse which
without exception causes brain damage & retards emotional & intellectual
development.

Col Tubb has been widely reported to have prescribed psychotropic
medications to Bush as a treatment for depression & paranoia, which more
than anything to date could explain why Bush sat stone still for 7 minutes
doing nothing but his "deer in the headlights" impersonation when told the
SECOND time that the twin towers had been struck. Many have blamed his
eratic behavior & accidentally comical use of vocabulary on him being
low-IQ -- but really the old drug addiction problem explains it better.

This from the "Bush Watch" newsletter:

---begin quote
We wonder how long it will take the nation to get sick of Bush's game of
"Obfuscation." Here's how it has worked with his cocaine crisis.
According to Washington Post reporter Dan Balz, "Bush has privately
reassured some top supporters that his 'youthful mistakes' did not
involve hard drugs and would not disqualify him to be president,
according to several sources." If that's really the case, why can't Bush
assure the American people? Is it because the only people that really
count in Dubya's world are people with big money? Why can't Bush tell the
average citizen that "his 'youthful mistakes' did not involve hard
drugs"? Why is he playing "Obfuscation"? With respect to his drip-feeding
of cocaine facts to the American people, few TV talk show reporters have
addressed Bush's reason for providing information as he did. Those who
have addressed that topic suggest that the Bush temper took over his
common sense, and once the original "Not in 7 Years" story was out of the
bag, Bush and the spinners spent the next 48 hours revising the story,
evantually turning it into "Not in 25 Years." One scribe suggested that's
what can happen at any time when Bush makes a campaign stop without one
of his press spokespersons nearby. Another factor was that Bush was being
pressed for an answer by the reporters and he grew angry.

According to Balz, Bush's original "7 years" response was in answer to a
a question about what he would do as President, not what he had done in
the past, and Bush decided that it was relevant. By the following day,
his spinners evolved the answer to cover the last 25 years, but Bush
never said that, which is why the New York Times headline read that Bush
"implied" 25 years. Wednesday and Thursdaay were filled with many
statements, clarifications, and contradictions by Bush and his spinners,
indicating how the game of "Obfuscation" is played in Texas. However, the
final obfuscation is that Bush finally never really addressed his own
question: could he pass the current White House test? Based on what Bush
has said thus far, the answer is, no: "Bush's answer yesterday fell short
of the standard required of senior government officials both in the Bush
administration and in the Clinton administration, who must reveal drug
use back to age 18," wrote Balz. Further, Bush has never addressed the
specific question reporters have been asking for months: Did he ever use
cocaine? "Yes" or "no" would suffice. We don't want to play the Austin,
Texas game of "Obfuscation."
-----end quote

Fortunately for Bush, polls show that most republican voters don't give a
shit if he was a cokehead in 1972 -- just like democrats really didn't
care all that much if Clinton HAD inhaled.

I'm just waiting for the dancing-hamster variant "Snorting Georgie"
preferably to some Grateful Dead tune.

-paghat the ratgirl

All about Cokehead Bush, read 'em & be shocked:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20.../index_np.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030411.html
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm
http://www.bobharris.com/scoop/bushcocaine.htm
http://www.progress.org/archive/drc12.htm
http://www.bushwatch.com/bushcoke.htm
http://www.g21.net/drug43.html
http://www.independent-media.tv/itemprint.cfm?fmedia_id=5508&fcategory_desc=The%20 Bush%20Crime%20Family

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"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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