Bush's Life-Changing Year (Washington Post 1999)

[troublemaker]

Bush's Life-Changing Year
By Lois Romano and George Lardner Jr
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 25, 1999; Page A1


First of seven articles
On July 28, 1986, George W. Bush woke up with a hangover. It had been a loud, liquid night at the venerable Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs as he and friends from Texas celebrated their collective 40th birthdays. Now, as he embarked on his ritual morning run through a spectacular Rockies landscape, Bush felt lousy...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072599.htm

[Julien Sorel]

1. What hard hitting journalism.

It is so disgusting, so fawning, so determined to wash away any stains, that I almost ended up liking the man.

If you can find the Post's take on Al Gore, please post it. I looked around but couldn't find it, and would really like to compare the two.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and

pugnaciously drunk. He leaned against the bar of the Old Home Sammple Room, the most gilded and urbane saloon in Cato, Missouri, and requested the bartender to join him in "The Good Old Summer Time", the waltz of the day.

-snip-

Elmer wept a little, and blubbered, "Lez go out and start a scrap. You're lil squirt, Jim. You get somebody to pick on you and I'll come along and knock his block off. I'll show 'em!" His voice flared up. He was furious at the wrong about to be suffered. He arched his paws with longing to graps the non-existent scoundrel. "By God, I'll knock the tar out of um! Nobody can touch my roommate! Know who I am? Elmer Gantry! Thrash me! I'll show um!"

-more-

Ah, the classics. Thank you Sinclair Lewis for your prescience. The article in the Post reminds me of the beginning of this novel.