AFTER READING THESE COMMENTS, THIS ELECTION IS SIMPLY THE GOP AGAINST THE PUNKS.

All drunks...dry or wet..get maudlin. Especially if they have recently been secretly imbibing. If I were Bush my conscience would have been hurting a long, long time ago. I bet he is hanging on by his toenails and counting the minutes until he can run off to Paraguay, his already bought and paid for hide out. ( No extradition policy with the USA, don't you know !) The Crawford Ranch may not be the safest place, and I think he is aware of that.
I'd shed Blood, not just tears, if I were responsible for the deaths and maiming of several million innocent human beings...and all for nothing but profit and power for myself and my greedy friends and Corporations.
Too bad he did not stay a falling down drunk. I am sure that the world would have been a hell of a lot better off than with him pretending to be sober and turning our world into a hell on earth.

So when he was toasting with Putin he was drinking grape juice? If he is drinking again, which would explain much of his current behavior, then I would think the press would know about it. Which means if he is, the press isn't saying. Either way, I think that a President who admits to a drinking problem severe enough that he needed help to quit, should be required to take regular blood tests to determine the alcohol level in his blood.

I'm not sure whom all has seen the photos all over the web, but I've seen photos and videos of bush with a beer, drunk, etc..

Not sure if they are legitimate, but with how this country has been ran for 8 years one would wonder what buzz the guy has been on. Impeach both the president and vice president for treason. And no, there is no one else running worth anything except Ron Paul, and the elites are just not going to let that happen.

"All this does is heap tons of cash on forced 12 step religios witchcraft groups with dead-end Goodwill clothes sorting crap."

Purely 12-Step organizations I am familiar with do NOT espouse any particular "God" as being required for recovery. Drinking / drugging is not the problem. Loss of control and over reliance on self is. Since you can fix a me problem with more me, connection to power outside of self is all that is required. It works for millions, including atheists and agnostics.

Religious groups who contend that belief in a particular God is required for recovery from addiction speak for themselves, NOT all 12-Step programs. Probably not God either...

This is a man who will get away with stunning crimes against our Constitution and humanity (hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million people, died as a consequence of "the decider" insisting on the invasion of Iraq. Millions more have fled out of Iraq. We are all to sadly aware of our casualty list). Nobody in this country really cares that the greatest crime in our history was just pulled off nor do they have the energy to lift a finger to at least put him on a fair trial for it. Nobody cares that his post presidency will be the greatest permanent vacation all of us can even imagine. Not only will he get away with it, he will personally profit immensely once he leaves office giving speeches and all that other nonsense that is nothing more than legal mafia "thanks for putting forth our special interests". His post-presidency will be filled with sunshine, peace, immersed in nature, traveling in first class wherever he wants to go, catered to daily any need he has, wealth, relaxation, the good life from here on out. I don't believe for a second he is haunted by anything nor will he be. He will have left behind human carnage but he himself will not see that. I believe within a decade he will be worth about $100 million and will have led a life we all only dream of (a shangra-la existence that but a miniscule number of people get to experience on this planet). That is how justice works on earth for people like George Bush. They get away with horrific crimes against innocent people and they never have to pay for it for a second (Henry Kissinger is the best American example I can think of off the top of my head as leading a great life after wreaking havoc that resulted in the deaths of millions of innocent people). If there is an afterlife as Bush believes in, I genuinely would feel terror for him as he might be in the category of believers that Jesus warned when they stepped before him expecting complete acceptance and unimaginable love: "I don't know you.". We are may or may not be changed but if we are...then who I am to judge anyone? But if there is the judgement that Bush expects, he may not be given the judgement he expects. His could be an unimaginable terror and darkness...forever. Jesus said he will be harsh only to those who believed in him yet did horrible things to innocent people in His name. If atheists are right? George Bush will not only have gotten away with setting a genocide of innocent people in motion along with sending thousands of Americans to their death or crippling status (physically/emotionally), he will have profited supremely from it all and enjoyed a life unimagined by us mere mortals. As John McCain might say: "That, my friends, is just how it is". And we should all apologize to God, if we believe, since we too were part of it all if we did not publicly speak out against it in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. I only participated in the online dialogue against war and in personal conversation. So, "Forgive me, Lord. Have mercy on me."

I'm no expert, but i think one of the 12 steps is accepting there is a higher power. there are programs out there with the religion turned down, but the vast majority of the popular ones (i.e AA) are certainly based around a "christian god." that is not a values judgement, but a simple truth.

but my big question is: When will people stop believing Bush???? Bill Clinton got tore apart for lying about what happened under his desk. Bush's lies started at least one war, killed thousands of americans, decimated our economy (see US dollar), and made all his buddies super-rich.

If you voted for him once, i guess i understand. Ok, if you voted for twice, I may have gotten over that by now.....but what possible reason do you have to believe still???? He is either completely incompetent of a bold faced lying thief. You decide.

As long as we send drug users to jail the problem will never be solved.

It's a nice sentiment to help them get their lives together after they get out, but unfortunately it is usually too late by then.

Why do people who use drugs go to jail? I know it's against the law, so I guess I wonder why it's against the law.

If people want to abuse drugs that's their business. The government should be more worried about real crime.

Why don't we imprison anyone who hurts their bodies? Boxers, football players, mixed martial artists, pro wrestlers. Anyone of those professions causes just as much damage to the body as does drug use.

Drug use should carry a stigma. However it should not be considered criminal. Small minds...

I have been trained on AODA issues. L have learned from personal and professional experienc that you don't "just get up and quit". America has had a dry drunk in the White House since 2000. Look as his behavior, lies, denial, failure to accept responsibility for his actions, mercurial changes of personality.
I hope America makes out with some options to repair the damage this one man has done to us, our reputation in the world community and our military.

Too bad he didn't stay on the bottle, would've never be president and we'd all be better off.

It's funny that you guys go spouting off things about how all of these soldiers have died because of Bush. What you don't know (because you're ignorant), is that MORE SOLDIERS DIED DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION than during the current administration, and we weren't at war at the time. What do you have to say about that??? Clinton sucked, and had no morals. I'm so glad you guys know for sure what Bush is like, and what he's doing. It's amazing you can tell all of that from your computer.
Give me a break!

Clearly there is a big difference between "quitting drinking" and RECOVERING from the disease of alcoholism/addiction. Very few people understand this disease or how to combat it in the most effective way. Almost everybody is affected by it on some level.
Getting outside help is a start. That is what this bill is about right? Helping people turn their lives around.

I think Bush is not a good president as well as not a good man.
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