Posted on 02/27/2005 7:50:54 AM PST by rface
Please verify the claims about Bush's cocaine use you've made in this thread.
He hasn't denied being a pedophile.
What is he afraid of?
Ah yes, another "benefit" of how Americans are propagandized about drugs: the popular image of all addicts as disfunctional.
Dubya, like most people who overdo it, realized he was headed for trouble and quit drinking and, I think one can assume, all other intoxicating substances.
But if that were widely known, it might put a kink in the plans of the quacks that run marijuana "rehab" clinics.
We are reaping the results of a decade of hardline regarding prisoners. These things are cyclical. Some times we are very easy and others hard. The reality that 97+% of all prisoners will get out should put the onus on the system to provide them the opportunity to come out better than when they went in. Not only do many states not advocate this, it is a very difficult thing to do with budget constraints and the laisse faire attitude of the public toward what goes on inside.
Joe Conason.... LOL! Haven't seen him around for awhile.
It's no surprise that some paper in Canada still publishes that guy's raving bitterness.
He's Molly Ivins.... without the clever subtlety, LMAO.
You're free to not believe it. There used to be threads here about it in early 2000. I once did a search for Bush and cocaine. Many Mena references and a couple about W. Have fun.
I stand by my direct hearing of the statement and the direct quote from W on an NBC news interview.
This kind of article is meaningless. It is too late for this campaign rhetoric to influence the election, so it is no more than outdated and useless ghosts of old polemics. Those who practice polemics past their point of utility are themselves past their point of utility to society and may constitute a danger to themselves and their neighborhood.
I did read your post 72. Where is the direct quote from Bush's campaign?
I did not remember the exact words to put them in quotes. It was December 1999. The statement said that Mr. Bush had not used hard drugs in the last 25 years. That's ALMOST word for word, but Imay not have it precisely. Then in January, 2000 W said he stood by the statement and would not address it anymore.
Well, maybe all prisons should become Federal prisons then and should be outsourced to the states to run under Federal guidelines. I know, I know. Just another thing for Big Brother to get into. However, I believe that it makes sense to have them run within the same guidelines with rehabilitation as the goal. It would save a lot of money and, hopefully, salvage a lot of lives.
The President is not "punishing" drug users; they are being punished under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they were convicted.
Rumor is when Bush was campaigning here in Iowa during his first run; his car was speeding one time. The word is that the car was going 68 in a 65 zone.
It was never in the media, had to be cover up by moneyed Republican interests to keep it out of sight.
:)
Good one!
Red6
You didn't ask me; but, yes, I have. The last time, the officer let me go. That was very sweet of him. :) I have tried very, very hard since then to take it easy on the accelerator.
You can't link to it... if it was said it'd be very easy to link to wouldn't it?
In general I don't see the public as interested in prisons. Mostly the attitude is "just don't let them escape). Only the most farsighted talk about what they'll be like when they are released. I'll give it 5 minutes before someone relies, then don't release them.
Hey that's a pretty good rumor.
BTW, I've also heard Conason is a Transvestite. I too have no proof, but that's 'the word on the street'.
:-)
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