Good thinking on your part about not driving under the influence...though I know a few small towns where if you know you've had too much to drink, decide to leave your car there and walk two blocks home, the town cops will pick you up for public intoxication even if you're tooling up the sidwalk silently and not bothering anyone.
Dean's campaign will try to make his drunkeness out to be somehow better or more of a moral struggle than the presiden't bout with alchohol.
Actually, I don't think the president is an alchoholic (you never beat it, it's a daily stuggle to maintain an alchohol free state) because he doesn't have the symptoms. Recovered alchoholics should never allow themselves to become too tired, too stressed or too hungry. The chemical reaction in the brain causes that black, angry, out-of-control behavior known as "dry drunk syndrome". Dean appears to suffer from that problem, and may really be an alchoholic.