More Evidence that Bush Is a "Dry Drunk"?

History News Network ^ | jan 28, 2004 | Katherine Van Wormer

[Krodg]

Have any of you read 'The Faith of George W. Bush'? It doesn't deal much on what he believes but more on how he came to be the man he is because of what he believes.

[Keith]

it's isn't...it's some communist front called the "History News network"...and the professor works at the People's Democratic Republic of Northern Iowa.

[NeoCaveman]

I got half way through this B.S. and decided I needed a drink.

[HairOfTheDog]

The dry drunk quits drinking, but his or her obsession with the bottle is often replaced with other obsessions. Twelve Step programs help their members modify their all-or-nothing thought patterns which associated with the disease alcoholism.

Actually, For people drinking from compulsion (which is not all heavy drinkers, contrary to modern diseasism) AA replaces alcohol with a healthier, yet just as dependent addiction to AA.

[Abynormal]

That was pitiful. To ignore the facts of 9/11 that were a driving force in this war on terrorism and to indicate that Bush is simply trying to 'please daddy' is unconscienable (sp?). It makes me sick that these people force their sick opinions and try to call it historical documentation.

[FormerACLUmember]

Ah yes, the open minded University environment flowers again. This is the junk science and flaming propaganda that is being indoctrinated into many a young mind full of mush college student. At $300 per credit!

I ruminate over ideas about liberating the more stench filled toilets of campuses (such as where this neo-Stalinist vermin teaches) but have yet failed to come up with ideas. Any sugggestions?

[GSWarrior]

I've been through 12 steps for substance abuse. Haven't been to a meeting since 1993, which, incidentally was when I stopped using bad stuff. Some folk go to AA, stop drinking and move on. Others do just what you said.

[prairiebreeze]

a Google of Ms. Van Worner yields she's written:

Social Work with Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals: A Strengths Perspective

Restorative Justice and Social Work By Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, PhD

This quote from the latter is instructive about Ms. Warner:

Before I became a social worker, I spent a lot of time around the courts. As an instructor of criminal justice, I studied the adversary system and played a limited role in helping defense attorneys with jury selection. Much of what I learned about justice in the United States—the plea bargaining, the guilty released on minor technicalities, the “one-size-fits-all” harsh sentencing, the win-or-lose mentality—was disillusioning. Books such as Karl Menninger’s The Crime of Punishment, Howard Zehr’s Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice, and Jeffrey Reiman’s The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice provide compelling critiques of the standard, Anglo-Saxon form of justice.

[tx_eggman]

It also reveals her web page at UNI

Have at it:

http://www.uni.edu/vanworme/

Contact

vanwormer@uni.edu
Katherine Van Wormer Ph.D.,MSSW
Professor of Social Work
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0405. 319-273-6379

[freedumb2003]

By Katherine van Wormer

Over-educated, Liberal and Stupid is no way to go through life, lady.

[cottonseed]

Dean Wormer's wife? We know all about her..

[Ditter]

I am sick of the "dry drunk" comments too (what ever that means).

I am also sick of "Bush is a liar" comments. I just flew off the handle at my favorite niece for sending me some kind of garbage about President Bush being a liar.

I told her that if she sent me any more 'crap" like that she could just drop me off her e-mail list. I haven't heard back from her today, she may be still reeling from my angry comments.

[MEG33]

Well said!I remember ...

[HairOfTheDog]

I am glad for you that you used it to help you switch tracks, and also that you could eventually move on without it. I suppose it isn't particularly harmful (relative to the alternative) when folk stay in it for years as some do... but I can't help thinking that after awhile, it is keeping them a slave to their substance-abuse long after they could have been free of it.

[HitmanLV]

For the answer we need to look deeply in the psyche of the man (inferred from his biography).

To me, here is where the author, a 'dr' loses a lot of credibility. She should know that she can't make a meaningful diagnosis based on such limited information, and without meeting and working with the person in question.

She knew better and she didn't care. So much for the author.

[evets]

Katherine Van Wormer?

[Cicero]

Bizarre. I can't think of a President in my lifetime who has shown more self-control and politeness to his enemies than G. W. Bush, unless maybe it was Ronald Reagan. If the shoe fits, wear it. Only an out-to-lunch, left-wing kook could imagine that this shoe fits GWB.

If you want to think of presidents who might go over the edge with vindictiveness, my list would include LBJ, clinton, and maybe JFK or his brother RFK who did some of his dirty work.

[pax_et_bonum]

Oh, please. This author is just another Bush-hater.

[Capt.YankeeMike]

in other words, she is pissed off because with a Phd and an MSSW shes still only making 35K per year....LOL

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Afraid of a little bit of debate & discourse & a difference of opinion? Sheesh, run to the Admin Moderator at the slightest provocation!