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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:17 PM
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Holy Crap. Bush Drinking? Photo Evidence?
AP has a picture of Bush with a glass of wine in his hand

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/F/f3e960a4-fed8-4c8e-993f-acd90438fb04.html?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:18 PM
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1. nah, that's liqueified yellow cake.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:18 PM
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2. but they could say it's non-alcoholic....
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:19 PM
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that's some weird looking wine n/t
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:21 PM
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6. Yeah, it looks more like Noni juice
Hey, AZ good to see you!;-)
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:23 PM
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JoanAlpren turned me on to the Noni Juice....
And I feel a lot better sinc I have been drinking it...
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Perky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:22 PM
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9. I agree but the other guy has the same drink.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:27 PM
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16. Looks like Ganges river water to me! n/t
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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:19 PM
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3. Is it confirmed?
He could always say it was juice.
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celestia671 Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:25 PM
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11. Jesus Juice!
:beer:
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:20 PM
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4. Probably baby's blood from Iraq. NT
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wallwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:20 PM
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5. He thought it was a bird, no, wait, it's a weapon of...
mass destruction, no, wiat, he didn't realize the cork would give way, um, no...
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:21 PM
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7. he looks awfully happy as in "got a buzz on"
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:21 PM
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8. Kool-Ade? nt
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:23 PM
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10. Survey Says....
Ding!

We'd have also taken urine as a correct answer. Yes, urine.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:25 PM
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12. I'm sure he was just putting alcohol into his mouth
He wasn't actually drinking. At least that's what I imagine Kate O'Beirne would say.
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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:26 PM
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13. Saw the video if its the one in India.
he made a obvious effort to show everyone that he set it down after the toast. It looked staged and a bit of overcompensation.
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:30 PM
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19. He's done this before--it's no biggie
He holds up the glass for the toast and then doesn't drink it. If he were going to drink, it certainly wouldn't be in front of the cameras.
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:25 PM
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34. That was my perception as well Ksec. n/t
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:26 PM
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14. The manner in which GWBush supposedly "gave up" drinking
.

The manner in which GWBush supposedly "gave up" drinking was, reportedly, through a bible study class or through being "born again." So says Dumbya, himself.

Now. What the hell does that mean as to "giving up" alcohol? Dunno. Do you? For example, must Dumbya totally abstain from drinking as one would if in a 12-step program? or most psychological thinking? Can Dumbya "control" his own drinking? Can Dumbya through his belief in his god "control" drinking?

Hhhhmmmm? So goes Dumbya.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:26 PM
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15. but it was only one beer
of course he drinks, jeez he drooled and twitched during the fuckin presidential debates, you'd have to be majorly in denial or completely inexperienced in the ways of alcoholics not to realize he was tipsy
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:28 PM
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17. hehehe
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mtowngman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:29 PM
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18. A glass of wine would be a good start
that boy needs to smoke a fat doobie and chill out on the war mongering and hating.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:38 PM
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24. Here! Here!
Peace.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:30 PM
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20. I think you guys are right... evidence He looks awful happy
after everything thats going on ... I can believe he has started again
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:30 PM
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21. Looks like a fancy ice tea glass to me. India is not big on drinking. nt
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:34 PM
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22. you know very different indians than i do
:rofl:
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:42 PM
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26. I was going to say the same thing. LoL. I have to hide from my neighbor
sometimes when he's outside, otherwise the booze comes out bigtime!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:46 PM
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27. Once they come to America, they're Americans.
Anyway, there's no way that Bush is drinking in public.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:53 PM
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30. So they come to America and they suddenly drop the things they did in the
country they came from?
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 06:23 PM
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37. You're attacking me like a child.
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 06:23 PM by onehandle
You know perfectly well what I mean. When people from a strict, repressed society come to an open one they may tend to go overboard.

Public drinking is not nearly as socially acceptable in India. Alcoholism is sharply on the rise. The rich import alcohol, the poor make a dangerous home brew. Still, less than 15% drink, mostly city dwellers. And mostly in secret.

When the ones who want to drink come to America, they may take advantage of our "free and open society".

They may "drop" their previous public social habits.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 06:55 PM
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39. Yeah, I'm attacking you, that's it. LoL. I was simply having a laugh with
the previous poster, who had a similar experience as I did. Wasn't a big deep discussion, then you decided to drop in and start pontificating to me about Indian Society.

The folks I know are straight from India, and they are quite traditional, yet they like to drink, much more than I normally do. I didn't ask them if it was culturally acceptable or not and I don't claim to know a whole bunch about their society except from what my neighbors have shared with me. I doubt you know much about their society yourself.

With that, thanks for ruining a perfectly good, innocent laugh. Hope you feel much better and more superior than myself.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:37 PM
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23. in the video footage I saw, he set the glass
down on the table and did not drink from it. Whose to say what he did after the cameras were turned off.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:39 PM
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25. Bod Boy - say 3 Hail Marys, 6 Our Fathers and promise
not to smoke any more crack
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:47 PM
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28. Maybe it's urine
It could also be fizzy lemonade.

It's not identified.

But yes, I think he's always lied about not drinking. He's deteriorating too quickly to have stayed sober
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Geo55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:52 PM
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29. Yep ,
President Bush, left, shares a laugh with Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam during Kalam's
toast
at the start of the State Dinner at Rashtrapati Bhavan, or the President's House, in New Delhi,

He was probably "toast" by the time this pic was in the cam.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:17 PM
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31. Sorry, but what would be the big deal if he had a glass of wine? n/t
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:22 PM
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32. I have no problem with anyone drinking wine but in his case it would be
hypocracy. He supposedly gave it up when he became born again.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:29 PM
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35. yeah, I know and agree, I just have never understood the

importance people put on alcohol use, and don't understand what religion has to do with an opposition to it. Would be hypocritical, I just don't think of it as any kind of issue other than that I guess.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 06:25 PM
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38. He's an alcoholic. Alcoholics can't just have one drink. nt
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:24 PM
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33. Who ever thought the Pinhead quit for real? It was just part of his PR
scam. I remember watching his campaign 2000 and thinking he was strung out on coke. His election night with the BFEE was very different from his over-the-top campaign style. He was mellow. I thought there and then, he had to be doing COKE while campaigning.
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Wisconsin Larry Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:30 PM
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36. I believe he is drinking -- just not with President Kalam since
from Kalam's biography comes this quote: " Kalam observes strict personal discipline, practicing vegetarianism, teetotalism, and celibacy..." http://abdul-kalam.biography.ms/
So this is probably just the Kool-aid they gave him to get the nuclear agreement signed.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:09 PM
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40. Look at his face - he looks drunk!!
Seriously, I usually don't take the accusations of him drinking too seriously, as we have no way to prove it - but he does look drunk in this photo!
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 07:59 PM
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41. Strange color wine!
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:04 PM
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42. He must be drunk , he is usually


not that friendly and comfortable with "brown" people.
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