Bush reflects on struggle with alcohol

[sinkingfeeling]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush reflected on his own struggle with alcohol in a White House meeting today to tout gains in the war on drug abuse.

CNN was the only media outlet invited to attend the entire meeting, which other reporters joined in the final minutes for remarks from the president.

Several in the room, including Don Coyhis of Colorado Springs, Colorado who runs a program targeting Native Americans battling substance abuse, were recovered addicts or alcoholics.

Bush, who quit drinking at the age of 40, was impressed.

"Congratulations on thirty years of sobriety," the president told Coyhis. "I'm eight years behind you."

[Flying Dream Blues]

1. Riiiiiight. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. bush struggling with alcohol only means that the cork was stuck.

[hlthe2b]

12. LOL

that's about right...

[Mist]

14. I can't possibly improve on antifaschits' take on it, so I'll add another LOL! nt

[Cleita]

19. You are so right as many pictures from his travels attest to.

:rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

3. He quit drinking publicly at age 40...

he sure acts drunk all the time, maybe it's a permanent condition now.

[monmouth]

4. He's never, ever going to get sober. Lying about it is the first clue....n/t

[sam sarrha]

15. click on the blue link in my signature

[monmouth]

21. Very interesting read, thanks.. Favorite saying I heard one time:

"Giving up drinking is easy, I've done it a hundred times.".....LOL.

[blueclown]

5. "Congratulations on thirty years of sobriety. I'm eight years behind you"

Fuzzy math?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[apocalypsehow]

6. He's no more quit drinking than I've quit breathing. n/t.

[Bluebear]

7. Bush, who CLAIMS he quit drinking at 40

[leftstreet]

8. Yeah, right

[Ilsa]

16. I can't remember -- where and when was this one? nt

[leftstreet]

17. The Olympics, Beijing this past summer

:hi:

[ThomWV]

9. Well, I don't know. I've got 12 clean years under my belt and I wish them both the best.

I wish alcoholism on no man or woman.

[get the red out]

10. I'd bet

he goes straight from the White House to the Betty Ford Center. If he hasn't been drunk the last several years, then the anti-psychotics they have him on are rough stuff.

This man is not in his right mind, often. It's hard to miss.

[sam sarrha]

11. no way is he telling the truth links> he got busted after that breaking into an old girl friends

house drunk and stoned.. when he was married,, broke a window.. cops let him go..

http://gawker.com/5035885/bush-looking-drunk-at-the-olympics

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/gw_bush_ghw_bush/news.php?q=121847

my personal favorite
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushloaded.htm

[niyad]

13. what struggle? when did he ever really quit drinking?--it would be even scarier to think that

everything he has done to this country, he has done sober.

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Why didn't he address his drug use?

:eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. He grew those all gin blossoms for nothing?

Nobody buys that story.

[niyad]

22. and that's why he had a wine glass in his hand, with liquid the same colour as everyone else's at

that dinner for the economic summit?

[alstephenson]

23. And he gave up golf after 9/11....

Not.