[Ready4Freddy]

"Bush WAS forthright with his drinking problem. Where were you? He answered questions about it in several interviews!"

I do remember a good bit of equivocation before W became forthright about it. I think people have learned from that, and are more willing to face these types of issues up front now. Nothing wrong with that.

[Miss Marple]

When was he equivocating? It is IN HIS BOOK A CHARGE TO KEEP!

He said in that book what he said all along...that he drank too much and decided on his 40th birthday to quit.

He was interviewed on this during the campaign from the earliest days, including a joint interview with Laura. The only thing he didn't bring up was the DUI, which had been supposedly expunged.

I am sorry if your memory is faulty, but I really feel compelled to not let this slip by unrefuted.

[onyx]

W refused to answer inane and UNFOUNDED, UNSUBSTANCIATED rumors, regarding cocaine use! And rightly so!

W never shied-away from speaking about his drinking days and the reasons and the date he quit.