"I doubt I'd be standing here if I hadn't quit drinking whiskey, and beer and wine and all that."
By Michael J.W. Stickings
So said President Bush to ABC's Martha Raddatz yesterday.
And, to be fair, good for him. He beat a serious addiction. He was an alcohol abuser and possibly also a marijuana and cocaine user, but he got his life together and moved on.
(So, at least, we are told. The truth may be quite different.)
But be honest, don't you wish he hadn't quit drinking the whisky? Not that I wish him poor health, but if only that beverage, or one like it, had kept him from running for political office.
Imagine what a better world it would be if he weren't "standing here," giving interviews and taking reporters on tours of the White House almost seven years into one of the most truly horrendous presidencies in his country's history.
Yes, John, just imagine...
So said President Bush to ABC's Martha Raddatz yesterday.
And, to be fair, good for him. He beat a serious addiction. He was an alcohol abuser and possibly also a marijuana and cocaine user, but he got his life together and moved on.
(So, at least, we are told. The truth may be quite different.)
But be honest, don't you wish he hadn't quit drinking the whisky? Not that I wish him poor health, but if only that beverage, or one like it, had kept him from running for political office.
Imagine what a better world it would be if he weren't "standing here," giving interviews and taking reporters on tours of the White House almost seven years into one of the most truly horrendous presidencies in his country's history.
Yes, John, just imagine...
Labels: addiction, alcohol, drugs, George W. Bush
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
11:49 PM
1 Comments:
I doubt there is a better example of a former “wet drunk” reformed into a “dry drunk” but continuing to engage in reckless behaviors without forethought as to consequences.
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Swampcracker, at 12:06 AM
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