More Evidence that Bush Is a "Dry Drunk"?

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

[wireman]

"Wonder if they have a Professor of Sanitation Engineering? Or maybe it's the same?"

Hey! Stop insulting Professors of Sanitation Engineering like that!

[cynicom]

These social/wordsmiths have never produced a dimes worth of anything in their life. From day one they are consumers as parasites on society, never are they producers.

[GSWarrior]

These 'Bush is a dry drunk' comparisons make me want to take up drinking.

[ozzymandus]

What is a political smear job written by a "Professor of Social Work" (whatever that is) doing on a site supposedly for professional historians? Don't tell me, Iknow: It;s Bush-bashing commie crap, so they printed it without a second thought (or a first thought).

[Alouette]

A "dry drunk" is someone who acts intoxicated even though never having imbibed an alcoholic beverage. Kind of the way liberals are all the time.

[Toespi]

Well I suppose if Clinton has to be a sexual addict, then a tea-totalling George Bush has to become a dry drunk. The history that the liberals are creating for future generations is shameless.

[meadsjn]

Ms. van Wormer is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa and co-author of Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective.

And the Social Work profession is the refuge of the most stubborn dysfunctional co-dependents, those who refuse to look at their own insanity, opting instead to inflict their controlling, manipulative behavior on innocent people outside their own sick family circle.

[bird4four4]

Grandiosity, rigidity, and intolerance of ambiguity, and a tendency to obsess about things

The left see these as flaws. They'd rather have low expectation, flexability to explore alternative styles, no wrong answers just grey areas, and don't bother persuing anything if it was meant to be it will happen all by itself.

[Mo1]

You've got to be kidding .. where did they find this one?

[F.J. Mitchell]

This proves that the inmates have taken over the liberal asylum and are on the intercom calling everyone else crazy.

[Viking2002]

I completely resent the entire nature of this article. Now excuse me while I freshen up my drink. :-)

[mrsmith]

She's been using this pap to get attention with for almost a year now.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/25/IN226761.DTL&type=printable

[MEG33]

Professional? Professional hit piece.Professional hogwash.I can't believe this appears on the History channel site.

[joesnuffy]

Aint that the truth..

[CaptRon]

Professor of Social Work. When I need to weave a basket I'll call ya. In the meatime I'll leave the psychoanalyis for the professionals.

[cwb]

Yep! And when you consider that Bush only had the support of 10 Senate Democrats (including Gore's bribe for support) to even go into Iraq, the opposition was much more prevelant. These people who now say that Bush 41 should've finished the job are liars. They objected to the very Liberation of Kuwait. And who can forget the sites from the "Highway of Death" as every liberal demanded we pull out immediately. The irony in all this is that these Democrats objected to the Gulf War even though the UN fully supported it. Today, they now say we can only act if the UN supports it. It is so obvious that Democrats object to any war a Republican wages regardless of merit.

[GSWarrior]

A dry drunk is someone who used to drink to excess who exhibits the personality characteristics of someone who is still drinking.

[aruanan]

The ostensible reasons for going to war -- the claimed link between Iraq and al-Queda and the claimed possession of weapons of mass destruction -- have been shown to be without substance.

Poor deluded academic.

[Republic]

Scary to think this woman is a professor. Sad, too. This woman's bias provided her with blinders big enough to make astounding leaps of assumption based on almost nothing but her own need to trash President Bush. Poor woman. She needs help.

[Poohbah]

You shoulda provided the BARF! alert.