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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:40 AM
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Bush a dry drunk?Hmmmmm
what was that thing I used to hear in the rooms?You can take the drink away from the horse thief but then all you have is a sober horse thief

Democrat shrink takes unflattering look into depths of Bush

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday June 22, 2004
The Guardian

SNIP........
Justin Frank, a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, argues that the president's inclination to see the world in black-and-white, good-versus-evil terms, and his tendency to repeat favourite words and phrases under pressure, are not simply politics as usual, but classic symptoms of untreated alcoholism.

Mr Bush was a heavy drinker from his youth but stopped at 40, becoming a born-again Christian. But Professor Frank, who has never met the president, argues he never treated the underlying cause of his alcohol dependence.

"He reminded me of my more disturbed patients," the psychiatrist said. "Being on the wagon is not the same thing as having alcoholism treated. That means taking responsibility, and making amends to the people you've damaged.

"Bush switched from alcoholism to religion. It takes responsibility out of his hands. Being born again is a way of denying the past," Prof Frank said.

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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-23-04 09:42 AM
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1. That's a great quote - good bumper sticker material..
HA!
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