In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
If lies about the past (say from the swift boat veterans for government contracts), then why not bring up some old pieces of information that not even be lies?
First let's concentrate on the present pResident George:
Back then George was doing lines of coke up at Thurmont, Maryland: Bush 'did coke at Camp David' years agoKelley quotes Bush's former sister-in-law Sharon Bush, who claims: ''Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was president, and not just once either.''
Others told Kelley that as a 26-year-old member of the National Guard, Bush ''liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine.''
Kelley claims Bush started drinking before college and continued at Yale to overcome shyness.
Former student Torbery George says in the book: ''Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded.''
Another says: ''It's amazing someone you held in such low esteem later became president.''
Alcoholism and or drug dependence is a tragedy, even when it happens to someone you really can't stand. But George was able to overcome it on his own. Without the aide of AA or any other external help. That can either mean George has a deep resource of will power or that he has a lot of issues hidden closely under the carpet.
Has he even really stopped drinking? Well... here's a video from 6 years after stopping his drinking. (quicktime required). Is that man sober?
and here's a photo from the G8 summit (it probably is non-alcoholic beer or someone else's but heck that wouldn't be that interesting for TCS... so let's pretend this picture signifies something):
And since we're looking at old dirty laundry, let's brink up the dirtiest of all (via many other site): George H.W. Bush's child prostitution scandal:
The Child Prostitution Ring that Reached Bush Whitehouse
You may have missed it in the late eighties if you blinked, but from the above link you can find all the articles of that scandal.KARLYN BARKER, WASHINGTON POST, JULY 24, 1990: The alleged leader of what authorities have called the largest male prostitution operation in the Washington area surrendered to federal agents yesterday and pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges that have been filed against him and three alleged accomplices. Henry W. Vinson, 29, of Williamson, W.Va., a coal miner's son accused of setting up the homosexual escort service, was arraigned in U.S. District Court here yesterday afternoon after turning himself in to Secret Service agents . . . At a news conference after the arraignment, [U.S. Attorney Jay] Stephens said the investigation into the alleged prostitution ring "is concluded" and that the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, focused on those who allegedly set up the ring rather than on clients who reportedly patronized it. Asked about earlier reports that some of those clients included high-level officials in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Stephens said the investigation had not revealed "additional conduct which suggests criminal conduct on behalf of other people." . . . The Vinson case provoked additional notice after The Washington Times published reports last summer suggesting that the alleged prostitution ring had been patronized by government officials. The Times named as clients several low-level government employees and Craig J. Spence, a Washington lobbyist and party-giver who, the paper said, took friends and prostitutes on late-night tours of the White House. Spence was found dead in a Boston hotel room last fall, and authorities ruled his death a suicide . . . To date, however, investigators have disclosed no evidence linking any high-level government official to the escort service.
And that concludes this extremely fair and balanced post. And now that is out of the way we can get back to the well established facts about Bush harming America via his war on Iraq and the destruction of the American economy. Oh and checkout some of the comments on the side... we've got some recent visitors from the Bush is God Squad. The seem to think "commie pinko" is an insult in this century. Please. Heck despite my liberal stance on many issues for the most part I'm a Libertarian. Commie Pinko... why are they willfully living in the fifties?
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