# Bush becomes a Doper?!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 28, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281 "2004-07-28T15:56:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/21 "2004-07-29T00:36:51Z")
If Bush has depression that is responsive to medications, then I hope he is on them. I can think of no anti-depressants in current use that could reasonably described in the hyperbolic language used in this article.
I will let someone else respond to the idea of “dry-drunk” behavior. I will, however, respond to this:
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> The doctors also worry about the wisdom of giving powerful anti-depressant drugs to a person with a history of chemical dependency.
Pure, uncut bullshit. A history of chemical dependency is not a contraindication to treatment with modern anti-depressants.
As for Capitol Hill Blue, I will always remember them as the source for the story that Clinton did not complete his studies at Oxford because he raped a woman there. Their single source was a guy who had been a janitor there at the time.
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### Author:  [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/22 "2004-07-29T03:00:23Z")
> [@Blalron](#):
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> …If Cheney a member of this board, I’d say it was **Brutus**. Vicious, uncharismatic, and without a functioning heart.
Look at you, wandering around the boards and throwing out random compliments!
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/23 "2004-07-29T10:44:56Z")
> [@RTA](#):
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> When we pit Bush, you’re disappointed. Yet, when we don’t pit Bush, you’re disappointed … keep those cards and letters coming, Liberal. I know you will.
I’m disappointed when you pit Bush for mispronouncing words, or for having a goofy hairdo, or for not running out of the school like George Costanza in an apartment fire. If any of you ever decides to pit him for his tyranny, I will be delighted.
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/24 "2004-07-29T12:47:14Z")
Just a few days ago, a friend and I were saying that, with the high stress, constant criticism, and extreme pressure of the job, we’d be very much surprised if EVERY modern president weren’t on antidepressants of some sort.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/25 "2004-07-29T13:38:25Z")
> [@Dead Badger](#):
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> I don’t know if this is aimed at me…
Don’t worry, it wasn’t.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/26 "2004-07-29T19:06:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> **NoClueBoy** would be my guess…
[checks reports for mention of WMDs being in **Chefguy** ’s possesion…]
I guess you’re clear. But watch it! I’ve got an itchy trig… Ooh, look! A QUARTER!
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/27 "2004-08-01T08:16:59Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#):
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> I know he can function normally, or at least better while on his medication but I think it _is_ something the public should know and be able to discuss without _another_ “oh no I have nothing to add except I disapprove of this thread topic but for some reason I am still willing to bump it.”
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> He is in control of thousands of nuclear weapons. \*I \* want to know if his medication or lack of it would ever put the world at risk.
JFK took a drug cocktail every day. For purely physical reasons, of course: his chronic back problems and whatever else was wrong with him. But it may well have had some effect on his mental/emotional state. We still survived the Red October, though.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/28 "2004-08-01T14:27:31Z")
_Posted by Brutus:_
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> That’s some source you are putting faith in.
Jesus Christ, Brutus, _warn_ us before making a valid point for the first time! Like to give me a heart attack.
The article does sound like a joke. (If it were a true story, you’d kinda think it would be in the regular papers.)
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/29 "2004-08-01T19:03:12Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> JFK took a drug cocktail every day. For purely physical reasons, of course: his chronic back problems and whatever else was wrong with him. But it may well have had some effect on his mental/emotional state. We still survived the Red October, though.
But only because of Jack Ryan’s brilliant powers of deduction, and Captain Sean Connery’s shrewd tactical genius. (And even **he** only gave their mission about 1 chance in 3 of succeeding.)
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### Author:  [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/30 "2004-08-01T21:52:10Z")
At first I thought there was a typo in the title. My bad.
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### Author:  [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-becomes-a-doper/257281/31 "2004-08-01T23:25:49Z")
This is definitely a joke site. At the beginning of the article there’s an ad for air filters guaranteed to last 1,000,000 miles.
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