[Protect the Bill of Rights]

"....Kitty Kelly's book release..."

Speaking of Kitty Kelly's book:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20040927&s=baker
From THE NATION September 14, 2004,
Why Bush Left Texas
by Russ Baker

(snip)
".............Now-prominent, established Texas figures in the military, arts, business and political worlds, some of them Republicans and Bush supporters, talk about Bush's alleged use of marijuana and cocaine based on what they say they have heard from trusted friends. One middle-aged woman whose general veracity could be confirmed told me that she met Bush in 1968 at Hemisfair 68, a fair in San Antonio, at which he tried to pick her up and offered her a white powder he was inhaling. She was then a teenager; Bush would have just graduated from Yale and have been starting the National Guard then. "He was getting really aggressive with me," she said. "I told him I'd call a policeman, and he laughed, and asked who would believe me." (Although cocaine was not a widespread phenomenon until the 1970s, US authorities were struggling more than a decade earlier to stanch the flow from Latin America; in 1967 border seizures amounted to twenty-six pounds.) ....."

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[mabelkitty]

Now It's Bush's Turn to Squirm - Sid Blumenthal, Guardian, September 9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210940/posts

[PigRigger]

The sad thing about all of this is that it really doesn't matter.

Even if they were to prove the allegations are true, what would it get them?

Bush owned up to his "problematic" behavior during the 2000 election. He pretty much has admitted to having a serious drinking problem during those times; he never denied that he didn't use drugs as well.

It also is very admirable that he came to the realization that he had a serious problem and cleaned himself up. Bush has said that overcoming those problems has made him a better man.

Kerry has never owned up to his youthful indiscretions. If he took a page out of Bush's book, admitted to doing them (with good intentions at heart) and ask for the public to forgive him, they probably would.

The problem with Kerry is Kerry; he's his own worst enemy.