My name is Chris and I am an alcoholic...

[WCGreen]

It's been 26 years since I have had a drink. But I am still, even after all these years, an alcoholic...

I still remember how it was, how I was.

I distinctly remember that nothing I ever did while I was drunk was my fault. NOTHING.

Everything that happened to me was the result of circumstances or someone else.

It was never my fault.

I was reminded of this and I got a chill.

That's how repulsed I am for what I was, what I am, what is lurking inside me.

But it got me to thinking.

Perhaps Sarah Palin is addicted to fame, addicted to being the center of attention.

John McCain discovered that the hard way as the VP candidate took over the central spot on the GOP ticket.

She has to be in charge and she has to be the center of attention.

She can't admit when she is wrong, can't ever accept the simple fact that any thing could ever be her fault.

Just wondering...

[canetoad]

1. Overshare. nt

[Sal Minella]

9. For some people perhaps. Not for me. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. The hide post feature is your friend, and it's faster than typing out a complaint.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. A powerful message...

Thank you for your insights.

Recommended.

[NMDemDist2]

3. gee ya think??

:rofl:

as one "FoB" to another

:hug:

[cliffordu]

4. K&R

Ingnore the overshare comment

[old mark]

5. K&R...She does have a lot of the characteristics, huh?

Coming up on 23 years myself.
Thanks for sharing.

mark

[BeFree]

6. Powerholic?

We see that a lot.

A little power is very intoxicating.

[FLyellowdog]

7. I suspect undiagnosed mental illness...seriously.

Histrionic Personality Disorder
http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx17.htm

[madmax]

12. +1

[kestrel91316]

8. Sociopath, malignant narcissist, pathological liar, megalomaniac......I can think of several

names for what ails her. She is probably all of the above.

[MrsBrady]

10. she may be some kind of narcissistic mother

tries to make herself look good, always. Can NEVER appear to be a bad mother.
Will appear to be the best mother ever, but in the background is really quite emotionally detached or neglectful.
Or some variation thereof. But yes, the fame could make it all about her. For sure.

And, unfortunately I have personal experience with this. Luckily, I no longer play along.

Al-anon here. Congratulations on your hard work.
My testament to the 12 step program is that I did not marry an alcoholic after I did the work.
And was saved from becoming my mother. whew!

[madmax]

13. I have many F o B

:hug:

[john donathon]

14. the only reason

Sarah Palin is relevant is because we dems keep bringing her up in effort to make her look bad. Think about it, if we all show how much hate we have for palin, then the republicans will move towards her even more. Just Sayin'

[madokie]

15. She's something of which I'm not sure

an s word comes to mind though

[Stuart G]

16. k & r

[ehrnst]

17. Dry Drunk - W showed all the signs. Now she does.

Thinking that she is above the rules.

Always shifting blame.

Feelings of ominpotence.

[Fly by night]

18. Bush is no dry drunk, and I suspect Palin isn't either.

Of course, it's not for me to label them practicing alcoholics -- that's up to them. But after Bush's almost .25 BAC after his pretzel-choking incident, I have no problem calling out people (like Dim Son) who credit themselves for achieving sobriety when they cannot spell the word (much less walk the walk).

If I live that long, I am two weeks away from a 17 year chip myself. I have no problem admitting that I did not drink like a gentleman (it just took me nine years and seven white chips to do so.)

[cally]

21. I had never seen that Bush had a BAC of .25 after

the pretzel incident. Where did you find that out?

[Fly by night]

23. Here's one citation.

An editorial letter by Graydon Carter in Vanity Fair for January 2008 quotes a new book about Bush:

"A new book by former British foreign secretary Lord Owen may supply a clue. In The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair, and the Intoxication of Power (ISBN 1842752197), Owen recalls the time in 2002 when the commander in chief collapsed while sitting on a sofa watching a football game. (Official cause: he’d choked on a pretzel.) The presidential head hit a table on the way to the floor, he suffered an abrasion on the left side of his face, and a blood sample was rushed to Johns Hopkins , in Baltimore. Owen says he was told by a British doctor who had visited Johns Hopkins that lab technicians there found that the blood contained significant amounts of alcohol." ...

If you need other citations, let me know.

[cally]

27. Thanks...I think we all suspected but I had never

seen any confirmation. Bush acted like an active addict or alcoholic.

[Fly by night]

29. For more evidence, visit this OP from last year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8497298

It is entitled "Talking the Walk ..."

Many DUers posted considerable photographic evidence that Bush is about as alcohol-free as the puke on a frat house floor (territory that Dim Son is likely very familiar with).

[KittyWampus]

19. BINGO! My Dad pointed out that wealthy often are addicted to dealmaking. It's about the rush

and feeding the compulsion than the actual results. And in the process, the higher brain functions are diminished.

I wouldn't hate that part of yourself though. You harnessed it. One of the hardest things to do. You should embrace that part of your self and show it how far its evolved.

[LiberalLoner]

20. K&R Thank you for this post! Ignore "overshare" comment - this was a very

inciteful and needed post!

I have been thinking myself that these right-wingers remind me of the alcoholic father I grew up with - always twidenying, shifting blame, operating as a two-year-old, just toxic evil. (Thank God every day that I got away from my father and am living a happy and sane life, without alcoholism, without codependency either. Will be more glad than sad when I hear my father is finally dead.)

[WCGreen]

25. One thing we followers of Bill understand that you need to be able to

determine what you can change and what you can't and to not get all worked up by what you can't...

[kimi]

22. Fault and admitting wrong

Not Sister Sarah's strong suit.

She may very well have emotional and personal issues which have affected her judgment. Okay, not "may" -- she does.

I have been concerned about her lack of responsibility since that episode where she flew into AK in hard labor, already ruptured her amniotic fluid, and drove home, all the while knowing that she was carrying a high-risk pregnancy. That said to me louder than anything that her judgment, her sense of parenthood, her entire personality -- was way off.

(And yeah, I know the theories that she didn't give birth to that baby, I dismiss them cause there's no actual proof as far as I know.)

Regardless, the lack of common sense, of common decency in trying to do best by your unborn, high-risk child -- it appalled me then, and her continued concentration on her own travails in the wake of what has happened lately, appalls me now.

Don't have enough expertise to diagnose her. But when people cannot accept their own responsibility for things that are so frickin obvious?? It's a huge red flag.

Humans need to understand consequences. It's one of the hardest things in the world to do. You, WC, are capable of that. I like to think that I am too, I work on it daily. But Palin?? No, she never will.

[ehrnst]

26. Not only flew, but made a presentation, then got on a plane - all after her water broke.

So she could have the baby in AK instead of TX. Talk about throwing your kids under the bus for your ambition.

Or perhaps inviting a 'tragic' loss and avoiding raising a disabled child just when your job opportunities open up. Twofer.

Either way, there's something very deeply wrong with her.

[niyad]

24. k and r--thank you for sharing, and continued sobriety.

there is definitely something wrong with crosshairs sarah, probably more than one.

[cynatnite]

28. It's about money for her. That's it. n/t

[stuntcat]

30. the people who worship her are under a spell too

I can only see her as very dirty and evil. Her many fanatics are the ones with a type of addiction, they needed someone to stand up and tell them they were right and never to change.