BC,
Last week you ran a picture of Bush drinking champagne in a toast on his Yurp tour.  I've seen no questions, nor any discussion of this issue since the picture was publicized.  But doesn't this picture bring up a number of questions that would surely be asked about Bill Clinton's integrity if the he had been the center of the issue?

I have never been an alcoholic, but having a former career in entertainment, I've known my share, and even had to help them from time to time to maintain their sobriety.  So I feel qualified to raise some of the issues that nobody else seems to want to touch.

Bush claims that he gave up drinking when he discovered he had a problem, and that his decision was to never again touch a drop.  Yet there they are--the pictures of him doing shots (or toasts) on his Yurpian tour.  If Bush did in fact have a legitimate drinking problem, he's apparently got it again.  An alcoholic cannot ever take a drink, or he's right back on the sauce.
Therefore Smirk must be back on the sauce, or he's never been off of it.

If those pictures were posed for the cameras, what does that say about Smirk?  That he wants the American public to think that his problem with alcohol was no big deal, and that his DUIs were not caused by an addiction--but by irresponsibility?   That he wants us to forget he ever said he had a problem?  What message does that send to organizations that treat alcoholism by stressing that they acknowledge their problem to themselves and to others, as the only reasonable beginning to recovery?
Perhaps if Bush followed this studied and reasoned path, and acknowledged his problem to Jenna and Barbara (which he
claims he hid from them, but an alcoholic is generally never successful at hiding their addiction) the girls would not be on
the road to becoming severe addicts.

No--obviously Bush is still in the "denial" stage, which means that he has never successfully addressed his illness.  Because of
that picture, the fact that Jenna is out of control; the fact that Bush cannot speak without slurring words, mispronunciations, or constructing nonsensical sentences; because his policies make about as much sense as most of his sentences; and because his handlers won't let reporters get close enough to smell the gin on his breath, I've determined that he is Smirking Drunk!

Yes, folks--That means that the man with his finger on the button of a "nucular" arsenal that can turn this planet into another Sun, isn't even capable of driving a car without getting arrested.  This should scare you more than just a little.  We need to demand that he come clean with his drinking problem, that he follow a "twelve step" program (including making personal amends to those of whom he has caused suffering; i.e., the children of the Colonias, the families of innocent people he has killed through state executions, Al Gore, the American people for stealing their democracy, Jenna and Barbara for not being there when they needed a parent, the woman who's abortion he paid for), and that he endure bi-monthly blood tests to guard against recidivism.

If this example is not set, exactly what do we tell our children in regard to alcoholism?

Jim H.
 
 

Jim, the fawning whore press keep telling us Smirk goes to bed early every night.
For all we know, he starts drinking at his 8 PM "bedtime" and his staff juts keeps him hidden.

Maybe that's why he only works a couple of hours a day.
He's gotta sober up before they let him outside.