[rface]

I would never believe this, except for the credibility of the source.

[MNJohnnie]

would never believe this, except for the credibility of the source.

The credibility of the source? YOU have got to be kidding right?

[Ann Archy]

By his "Jesus" remark, Saul Landau sounds anti-Christian....which is why the Bush haters hate Bush...because he's a Christian.

[frogjerk]

The nation has endured drunken Presidents, like Ulysses Grant and Warren Harding. But a "dry drunk?" Dr. Katherine Van Wormer, co-author of Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective, applied this term to Bush, meaning he stopped drinking but still thinks constantly about relieving his anxiety with alcohol (Counterpunch Jan. 22, 2003).

The Enquirer and Counterpunch?!?!? Please with this junk!

[End Times Sentinel]

It seems highly believeable to me that someone who's been dry for 19 years would keep whisky ready at hand.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[TBP]

the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles

Terrorist, of course, defined as someone who opposes Castro and his pet poodle Chavez.

[CyberAnt]

You consider CUBA as a credible source ..?? ROTFLOL!!!

The lefties are just day dreaming again! Poor things.

[beandog]

What a bunch of crapola. What is the credibility of the source that you speak of?

[yldstrk]

I doubt it. If it's true, Bush needs our prayers because he is under unrelenting attack. If it's not true, which is more likely, Bush needs our prayers because he is under unrelenting attack.

[marron]

This formula won him two elections, placed the gutless Democrats on the defense and secured the “stupid male vote,” the dumbos who adore Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh and vote against their own interests.

Since people can't be trusted to vote their own interests, its better to never offer them that choice. Thats why Cuba is the true democracy, and the US is but a sham.

I think I got that right...

[dighton]

“He poured himself a Texas-sized shot of straight whiskey and tossed it back. The First Lady was shocked and shouted: ‘Stop, George!’”

.
“Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.”

-- The Mikado.

[Liberty Valance]

You forgot the commie barf alert tag.

[frogjerk]

Because the left can't beat their addictions (booze, drugs, porn, money) and the President has sworn his off cold-turkey 19 years ago, it kills them. This is because it takes someone of extraordinary will power and character to beat an addiction without a liberal involved (According to them).

Because the President relies on the Lord to help him along the way the left is deeply saddened.

If you haven't already noticed nothing is beyond the left's desperate attempt to destroy the man who irks them on a daily basis...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Another trying day for the sarcasm challenged. I predict a n00b will threaten you with a zot before post 50.

[Cold Heat]

Good grief!

He talks about Bush's drinking like it was some sot of major battle with alcohol. It never was.

Bush learned over time what many of us do. (the smart ones anyway)

That looking back over your life you discover that every stupid thing you ever did, was the result of having a good time with alcohol.

You have this epiphany that alcohol+human being=stupid and it is as simple as that.

He does not have to avoid alcohol and never touch a drop as this pieceof garbage seems to opine, he need only not return to the mindset that you can't enjoy yourself without it, because that mindset really sucks.

Secondly, this sort of writing is indicative of the liberals who still think that they can somehow beat Bush as he finishes his second term, and will never run for office again.

How silly is that! It is they who need a shot, or at least a prescription for antidepressants.

[Lancey Howard]

I remember the National Enquirer once telling the story about 12-year-old Bobby, who survived several weeks trapped in a junkyard refrigerator by eating off his own foot. A police sergeant who arrived at the scene was quoted by the National Enquirer: "Little Bobby may grow many more inches, but he'll never grow another foot."

I would never have believed the story except for the credibility of the source.

[colorado tanker]

Credibility of the source???

Landau's latest book:

The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom

Are you disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government and the blatant imperialism of US international policy? Do you want to understand what's really happening in US politics?

This book, is a scathing account of George W. Bush's world before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that will appeal to anyone who is disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government, and the blatant imperialism U.S. international policy -- or those who just want to learn about what's happening in US politics.

[old and tired]

I have great respect for AA so I don't mean to take anything away from them. But I know plenty of folks who one day just stopped drinking. Usually, it happens by an ultimatum from a wife, or just having done something scarily stupid under the influence. I don't like the tone this article takes about Bush stopping without a 12 step program.

[Rembrandt_fan]

While not a physician or expert in the field of substance abuse and addiction, I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic with several years of continuous sobriety, active in a 12-step Program, and I can tell you it is possible to achieve meaningful, lifelong sobriety by means of a single spiritual event, for lack of a better term, without benefit of such a Program. CG Jung, William James, and other mental health pioneers recognized this life-altering event as one of the few means by which a chronic alcoholic could achieve sobriety. The problem, of course, is that such an event is statistically rare, happening to perhaps 2 percent of those afflicted. But it does happen, and I suspect it is what happened to President Bush, based upon what little I know--he doesn't speak much publicly about that aspect of his life, for obvious reasons. The rest of us who are not so fortunate have to daily work to that transformation, that change in perspective and attitudes, that surrender of self.

I also believe the article is an attempt at character assassination. No one as capable and clear-headed as the President is--in my opinion, anyway--in the grip of the mental obsession or physical cravings that define alcohol or drug addiction. He is far more than 'functional'.

[marron]

No where in these articles does it ever mention that he was cleared in a Venezuelan court of the crime for which they now seek him.

[Mo1]

What credibility ??

He is quoting a story from The National Enquire