[chessplayer]

The same type of jerk who would defend obamas using of cocaine and other drugs in college. The same type of jerk who would say it's racist to talk about obamas drug use. Meanwhile, obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.

[BenLurkin]

It was the cheapest of smears. Timed perfectly to almost throw the elction to algore.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another commie lib with an exploded head.

[JRandomFreeper]

obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.

I think anyone that watched the debate is pretty clued in, at this point.

/johnny

[RaisingCain]

I personally think the anti-Bush stuff from Democrats is more likely to backfire. Say what you will about Bush’s policies on the patriot act and other things, but he is definitely one of our more honorable and honest politicians we’ve ever had.

[Ken522]

... Meanwhile, obamas drug use is STILL a taboo topic in the media.

That's because obama never stopped ...

[Chode]

BDS still alive and well at the WaPo i see... feh

[MarineBrat]

[CaptainMorgantown]

A lot of people don’t remember that:

(1) GWB was consistently ahead by about 4-5% in all of the national polls in the weeks leading up to the 2000 election. In the absence of this story, it was not going to be a particularly close election.

(2) The story was originated by a democratic party operative on the Friday before the election, and ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN ran with the democratic talking points all weekend long in a 72 hour negative advertisment against GWB.

(3) The incident was over 20 years old at the time of the election - from the late 1970s.

(4) Despite the way the press still reports it, GWB was never convicted of DUI, DWI or any other alcohol related driving offense. He hit a mailbox, was issued a ticket for reckless driving, and the ‘suggestion’ was that he may have been drinking at the time.

(5) Although driving under the influence was never a good thing, the attitudes towards DUI were MUCH different in the 1970s than they were in the year 2000. The press never put any of this in context.

[DustyMoment]

Jeez Louizze!! Do these people EVER live in the . . . . . I don’t know . . . . PRESENT!!!?????

Bush isn’t running this time and a DUI should not preclude anyone from being POTUS - well, unless we are talking Democrats.

If this is the most important thing on this twit’s brain, he needs another job!! This is ridiculous!!

[Renegade]

Alcohol is still legal. Choomboy committed felonies with weed and coke .

[hosepipe]

[ WaPo Reporter Says Bush ‘Didn’t Pay a High Enough Price’ After DUI Revelation ]

On the otherhand Obama has not proven he is NOT AN INDONESIAN CITIZEN..
Which is known proven documented and admitted by Obama..

No records are made available for re-repatriation..
And are probably not possible to produce because he is still and Indonesian citizen..

Therefore a ringer and shill posing as an American qualified to be President.. which IS A FELONY..

[Gay State Conservative]

And what price,if any,has Osama Obama paid for his marijuana and cocaine use?

[Navy Patriot]

I wish I could get Vlad Putin interested in some of our “journalists”.

[Migraine]

Poetic justice is in the eye of the beholder.

[DoughtyOne]

In 1976 a DUI charge didn't carry the weight it did in 2000, or does today.  Bush complied with the laws at the time (1976), and that was that.  He deserved no more or less than he got for the charge at the time.  That's not to state that it was acceptable back then, but Bush shouldn't have been held to a standard any different than anyone else at the time, and I don't believe he was.

I'm not a big Bush supporter, but bringing this up 36 years later, is asinine.

LINK

Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge

November 02, 2000|From staff and wire reports

Texas Gov. George W. Bush acknowledged Thursday that in 1976 he was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol near his parents' home in Kennebunkport, Maine.Bush, who was 30 at the time, pleaded guilty, paid a $150 fine and his driving privileges were temporarily suspended in Maine.

Late Thursday evening, following a campaign rally in this tightly contested Midwestern state, Bush--with his wife, Laura, at his side -- told reporters news accounts of the incident were accurate, that he had been drinking in a bar with Australian tennis pro John Newcombe and others.

"I'm not proud of that. I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night. I learned my lesson." Bush said he was not jailed after the arrest. "I told the guy (the arresting officer) I had been drinking, what do I need to do? He said, 'here's the fine.' I paid the fine."Bush said the timing of the initial news report, just days before Americans elect a new president, was "interesting." When asked where the story may have originated, he said, "I've got my suspicions."

Campaign aides of Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and officials with the Democratic National Committee both said they first learned of the arrest from news reports Thursday and said it would be inappropriate to comment on the matter.

Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said the vice president learned of the story while flying from Chicago to a campaign event in El Paso, Texas.

Kevin Kelly, news director of WPXT, a Fox television affiliate station in Portland, Maine, said his station broke the story after one of its reporters learned of the arrest while covering an unrelated matter at the local courthouse.

"Somebody made a reference to it," Kelly said. The reporter followed up with phone calls, including one to the Maine Department of Secretary of State. Kelly said the department responded with a fax that detailed the 1976 arrest. Kelly said the reporter also talked to the arresting officer, who verified the incident.

Kennebunkport Police told CNN on Thursday night that the charge against Bush -- operating under the influence of intoxicating liquor -- was a Class D misdemeanor.

Karen Hughes, Bush's spokeswomen said the 54-year-old Texas governor, who has been open about his past drinking problems, had not publicly disclosed the arrest because not even his 18-year-old twin daughters were aware of it. He has said he gave up drinking the day after his 40th birthday.

[hosepipe]

[ WaPo Reporter Says Bush ‘Didn’t Pay a High Enough Price’ After DUI Revelation ]

On the otherhand Obama has not proven he is NOT AN INDONESIAN CITIZEN..
Which is known proven documented and admitted by Obama..

No records are made available for re-repatriation..
And are probably not possible to produce because he is still and Indonesian citizen..

Therefore a ringer and shill posing as an American qualified to be President.. which IS A FELONY..

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Lefties think that if their dirty tricks don’t work it’s because the people they tried to trick are stupid.

[LegendHasIt]

Yeah. If only Bush had been thrown in prison for life (or at least 50 years) Gore would have won, and saved the world from being completely destroyed from global conflagration a few years ago.

Oh Wait...That didn’t happen.

[donna]

...0.15 percent became the first commonly-used legal limit for blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in 1938...

...Originally 0.15 percent, it was later lowered to .10 percent. Due to federal pressure on all of the states, this limit was then further reduced to 0.08 percent.

[La Lydia]

The moron has been carrying his SoreLoserman mojo for an awfully long time, isn’t he? Thank heavens we were spared Algore. Imagine 9/11 with that blowhard in the White House.