Is George Bush still an alcoholic?

[ificandream]

I found the link to this five-part series a while back and it's very interesting reading, as well as scary.
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/theprinciples/90/george-bush-alcoholicpart-1

From the second paragraph of part one:

Having observed the president's behavior in office, I wonder if he might be wrong. Perhaps not only the president, but also his administration, suffers from alcoholism. After all, arrogance and the inability to take responsibility for one's actions, classic alcoholic traits, have become trademarks of the Bush presidency.

[NMDemDist2]

1. one is not cured of alcoholism

once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic

you can't make the pickle back into a cucumber

[IntravenousDemilo]

4. "You can't make the pickle back into a cucumber"...

That's very good. My compliments if it's one of yours.

[NMDemDist2]

5. I can't take credit for it, but you are free to steal it and use it liberally

:hi:

[Dora]

2. Dry drunks, or not so dry, the whole lot of them.

Angry bitter people who didn't get what they needed when they needed it most.

[Kutjara]

3. Once and alkie, always an alkie.

I've been dry eight years but I know for a stone cold fact that one drink would put me right back in the center of the whirlwind.

[gateley]

6. What I'd like to know if he is currently drinking again.

If he's begun drinking again, that would be truly alarming. Think of how much more easily manipulated he would be.

[kestrel91316]

7. Again? Frankly, I don't think the lying SOB ever stopped.

[ificandream]

8. He'd put ...

... less thought into his decisions than he does now! :scared: