Check in here if you do NOT believe that * has been sober since 1986

[KitchenWitch]

I would think his nether regions would be quite charred by now, with all the pants fires.

[BarenakedLady]

1. I don't believe it.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Not only do I not believe it

I believe he was half in the bag when he gave that "candid" interview with one of the ABC talking heads yesterday about the fact that he quit drinking. He was visibly trembling and not looking the interviewer in the eye.

[hisownpetard]

18. He never looks ANYONE in the eye! (Another thing I hate about him). Whenever he has a photo op

with a foreign dignitary at the WH, they sit in two chairs, about 8 ft. apart, facing the cameras.
When the photographers are ready, Bush takes the other person's hand as if to shake it. The other person
looks at Bush and smiles - and Bush turns and faces the cameras, head-on. HEAD-ON. HEAD-ON!!
He never even looks at the other person. It's so insulting and patently disingenuous - just like everything
else he's ever done.

Just one more thing about Bush that makes me want to scream...

[Deep13]

2. he's hammered

[redqueen]

3. Anyone who believes that doesn't want to know better.

He's been spotted drunk out in public since then fercryinoutloud. God only knows what goes on when no one's around (pretzel).

[NMDemDist2]

5. either he's drunk or has serious neurological issues

that tape from the Ellen show was just another example

the guy's a drunk and he may be taking pills instead, but sober he ain't

[MrCoffee]

6. i don't think he's been sober since breakfast

i want in early on this one

[FloridaJudy]

7. I believe he's been drinking

The guy's a walking example of "wet brain", and he's getting worse. Choked on a pretzel, hell! More likely puked because of the Johnny Walker he washed it down with. Look at his skin: that isn't sun damage, it's gin blossom.

If he isn't sloshed, that's even scarier. Drunks can sober up.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. I loved how in the interview he said he stopped drinking whiskey, paused, then >

added "and of course beer and wine." You could almost see the thought balloon over his head reading "but ah didn't say nuthin' bout tequilla!"

[LeftyMom]

9. If he's sober, I had steak and eggs for breakfast. nt

[Sugar Smack]

10. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"

HELL NO, he's not sober.

[pitohui]

11. everyone w. eyes in their head can see he's active in his addictions

he slurs, stumbles, trembles, and is visibly degenerating from the effects of alcohol/drugs right in front of us

hell, he even DROOLED in the freakin presidential debates w. kerry -- and we all saw it on live teevee

who the hell does he think he's kidding?

[Kucinich4America]

12. He sounded like he was all lit up like an Xmas tree last week

when Jenna called him from the Ellen show.

[texas1928]

13. The picture of him in the shorts and crocs with black socks with the presidential seal...

Dead give away, he is fricking plastered.

[Tyler Durden]

14. I know for a FACT he's been drunk since then.

I saw him with my own eyes at a "Taste of Houston" fundraiser in 1990 or 1991.

You dress up in your tux (YES, I have a TUX), you pay your $100, and you get to taste samples from all of the incredibly fancy joints in town.

I got to talking with some person, who said, "You want to meet someone important?"

I was not exactly enthusiastic, but he dragged me over to this person and there he was.

George W. Bush, waving a rock glass full of some brown liquid, neat. His tie and cummerbund were off and he was telling a dirty joke to a mixed crowd of tittering admirers. He was SMASHED.

I declined to meet him.

[Writer]

I think, through his own gradiosity, he has convinced himself that he has beaten the bottle.

Many people with fully-realized malignant narcissism (from what I've read) do imbibe heavily. Many narcissists use alcohol as a means of narcissistic supply.

You can read more about it here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_all_alcoholics_narcissists

So do I think he kicked the bottle and found Jesus in 1986? NO.

~Writer~

[China_cat]

28. Maybe he did find Jesus

If Jesus was hiding in the bottom of the bottle.

[KitchenWitch]

32. or in the toilet bowl he last horked into.

[Roon]

15. There's video of him drunk in 1992

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/bush/bush.html

[ThomCat]

16. I think he's been sporadically sober but he's almost

certainly still drinking. x(

[gmoney]

17. "The Podium has been drinking... not me..."

"'Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7Nz_JGFro

[Orrex]

24. Nice!

No thread is so cool that a Tom Waits reference won't make it that much cooler.

[hisownpetard]

19. All you have to do is connect the dots...umm, I mean, the broken capillaries.

[JVS]

20. I imagine he has been sober at some point in the last 21 years

[VenusRising]

21. I don't believe he's been sober.

But I think he's convinced himself he is. :eyes:

[Phillycat]

22. Oh, please.

As a recovering drunk, there's never been a doubt in my mind that the idiot is hammered most of the time. :eyes:

[Capn Sunshine]

23. I went googling to find pics of him after his various "accidents"

nothing came up. Any suggestions for a phrase I haven't thought of?

Edit: Found one! "Bush Drunk bruise"



edit II - this gif does not show up! WTF

[Orrex]

25. I tried "Drunken Monkey"

But Google only gave links to a weird Jackie Chan movie...

[gmoney]

26. Segway? Stumblebum?

Chevy Chase emulation?

[China_cat]

27. If he's been sober since 10 this morning

I'm actually an 18 year old supermodel who just found out that she's in line to the throne of a Balkan province that's rich in natural gas.

[zabet]

29. He probably has not been

sober since Babs starting
dosing his bottle with bourbon
to shut his little sniveling
ass up.

[catmandu57]

30. Tell me this fucker is sober

[underpants]

31. Well Kathy Griffin says that Jane Fonda has "heard" that W is drinking again

Apparently this is what Jane said to Dr.Phil who was hitting on her/teasing her backstage at the View.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. Do I win anything if I do?

A cookie, perhaps?

[SeattleGirl]

34. Hell noes, he ain't sober!

Fucker sounds drunk as a skunk almost all the time.

If he's sober, I'm the fucking Queen of England (with apologies to Queen Elizabeth).

[SPKrazy]

35. I've seen the video-- here. 1992

tell me he isn't plowed

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/packageart/bush/bush_tsg.mov

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Check

He might not do coke anymore...unless he got reconstructive surgery for his nose.

[Nailzberg]

37. Only a drunk would expect you to believe choking on a pretzel can do this.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. Why is his furniture so hostile?

The carpet comes up and hits him, the pretzels attack, the coffee table whacks him.....


:shrug: I don't understand :sarcasm:

[porphyrian]

38. Oh, please. -n/t