Bush faces pressure over drugs and draft

[Nambe]

Independent Digital (UK) Ltd

After weeks in which John Kerry's military record has been picked to pieces, President George Bush now faces a double blast of scrutiny over his own past, raising new questions over his avoidance of the Vietnam draft and his alleged use of drugs.

The first salvo is due to be fired on CBS tonight, when Ben Barnes, a Democrat and the lieutenant governor of Texas in 1968, will explain his role in securing for the 22-year-old Yale graduate Bush a coveted place in the state's Air National Guard - a unit so full of the sons of Texas's rich and powerful that it was known as the "Champagne Unit". ,,

More trouble may be heading Mr Bush's way with the publication next week of The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, by the controversial muckraking biographer Kitty Kelley, which purports to give more details of the President's past misbehaviour, including the allegation he used cocaine at Camp David during his father's Presidency between 1989 and 1993. ..

She quotes one former student as saying, "Poor Georgie, he couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded."

[TEXASYANKEE]

1. Swift Boat parody

I would love to see a paid ad by something like the White Line Druggies for Abuse, with a bunch of middle-aged hippie types on camera saying "Oh, George, yeah I smoked dope with him all the time back in the day."

Pay back is a bitch.

[et]

6. Is Chappelle's Show still producing??????

n/t

[leftchick]

2. Loaded and Limp.....

perhaps that is why Laura couldn't get pregnant all of those years?

[Fleshdancer]

3. Well what the hell did he expect?????

I hope Rove is scared. May he receive every bit of mud he has thrown through out his ENTIRE political career. May the paybacks be three fold.

[et]

4. [sound of crickets] from the US media?!?!?!?!? ChickenSh*ts

Gotta hand it to the Brits again.

Let's see how stirred-up our own awesome press gets about these two issues.

[mctrotter5]

5. Counterspin.org is advocating that we start calling media outlets

to assure all this bad news for Bush gets equal time to what they put out there about John Kerry in August. Could it be that we are going to finally get some good news and be able to get the truth out about Shrub?

[northstar]

10. At the risk of being a broken record today.....

....without the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, media outlets don't HAVE to give equal time to this 'bad news for Bush'. The repeal of this law has given rise to all of the uneven coverage that we have been seeing these past few years.

If you want the evenhanded coverage you expect, then work to get the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE reinstated - find out about it for yourself and find out why it's reinstatement is so VITAL to this nation.

[tandot]

7. Karma is a bitch

that's what you get for supporting these SlimeVets who lied and smeared a Vietnam Veteran for you.

We all know that you got into the National Guard because of your daddy and that you were grounded from flying because you didn't take the physical. They would have grounded you anyway because they would have found coke in your system.

[AlCzervik]

8. That Barnes piece is on tonight?

[Fleshdancer]

9. Tomorrow night from what I understand. n/t

[DebJ]

11. shhesh! I thought it was on Sunday?

[Nambe]

25. I wish I could have seen it. Stayed to late at dinner.

[jean]

12. the UK article is dated Sept 8 - Wed, tomorrow night

[AlCzervik]

14. cbs must be playing this one close to the vest

because i just checked their site and it only mentions the "Texas miracle".

[MajorFlaw]

15. I guess the "Texas miracle" is that someone actually let shrub

fly a plane.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. It is already Wendesday in the UK

so tomorrow night for us

[Iceburg]

22. 60 Minutes, TONIGHT (Sep 8) at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

see http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/08/60II/main641984.shtml

[cthrumatrix]

23. drip drip drip

[Catfight]

16. I love Offense! Kerry is kicking Bush's cocaine butt all over the place

[LauraK]

17. She spent 5 years on this book. Fine tooth comb anyone?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Does the Freedom of Information Act include

a right to demand presidential urine tests?

[Vadem]

19. OMG! Laura Bush a drug dealer???????

tee hee hee hee!

"Perhaps the book's most improbable claim is that Laura Bush, now the model of primness and propriety as First Lady, both sold and smoked marijuana during her days at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas."

[crossroads]

20. Karma is a bitch!

Our Stepford wife was a hippy! ROFLMAO!
:eyes:

[Catfight]

21. It's the visual, it breaks the mirror on her image, that's all we need. n/

[IA_Seth]

24. marijuana?

I guess I don't see the big deal with the fact that she did these things, but the fact that they now sit on their thrones and look down on all of those that still do is what bugs me.

I personally advocate for the legalizaton or marijuana, but I would never advocate for hypocrisy.

Cocaine, on the other hand, is a different story.