# Bush Campaign Advocates Drug Use for Disgruntled Workers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610 "2004-07-30T17:05:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/1 "2004-07-30T17:05:56Z")
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=6&u=/nm/campaign\_jobs\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=6&u=/nm/campaign_jobs_dc)
> [@](#):
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> A campaign worker for President Bush (news - web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones – or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
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> “Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy – or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.
This is the kind of smart-ass remark that belies all the glurge about “compassionate conservatism”. It is a divisive remark that trivializes the real problems people have. I suppose someone will be along shortly and smirk, “It was only a joke!”, but that speaks volumes about what Republicans find funny. To dismiss the pain of others with a snarky one-liner is the face of the true Republican, and all the platitudes about caring and compassion are just a sop to guileless voters.
Do working class Republicans not see that their party holds them in contempt?
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/2 "2004-07-30T17:45:56Z")
Could you do that link again, because either I’m going insane (always a possibility) or your link doesn’t contain the text you quoted. Nor can I find anything by googling “Susan Sheybani” and “Prozac,” nor anything relevant with “Terry Holt” and “Prozac.” Sounds like a great story though.
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### Author:  [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/3 "2004-07-30T17:48:20Z")
Ah, here’s your story:
[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5549796/](http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5549796/)
And indeed she was “only kidding.” Well, whatever.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/4 "2004-07-30T17:50:50Z")
Huh. “Get a new job.” Why didn’t I think of that, rather than spend ten months on a job search! Boy, that’s rude. Kidding or not. Actually, it’s even ruder if she was kidding.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/5 "2004-07-30T17:54:10Z")
1. Some mid-level bozo makes a borderline offensive remark, and I’m supposed to care?
2. I am greatly disappointed to find out no one in the Bush campaign is advocating illegal drug use, which was implied by the thread title.
3. This is stupid.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/6 "2004-07-30T17:54:56Z")
It just goes to show the mindset of the campaign.
Let them eat cake.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/7 "2004-07-30T18:01:18Z")
> [@masonite](#):
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> Could you do that link again, because either I’m going insane (always a possibility) or your link doesn’t contain the text you quoted.
Well that’s weird; I tested that link before I posted, as well as after. Now it’s different. Oh well, here’s the original:
> **[Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines](https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=%2Fnm%2F20040729%2Fpl_nm%2Fcampaign_jobs_dc_1)**
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> The latest news and headlines from Yahoo! News. Get breaking news stories and in-depth coverage with videos and photos.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/8 "2004-07-30T18:10:30Z")
> [@neuroman](#):
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> 1. Some mid-level bozo makes a borderline offensive remark, and I’m supposed to care?
Mid-level? She’s a student who worked for the campaign _answering phones_. (She’s a Cherry Blossom Princess who’s interned for Dick Armey.)
> [@Reeder](#):
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> It just goes to show the mindset of the campaign.
While that may well be a prevailing attitude, it’s good practice to stick to supportable arguments to show it, instead of grasping for an extremely lame fallacy of composition.
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### Author:  [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/9 "2004-07-30T18:25:12Z")
> [@Judge Smails to the reporters](#):
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> Don’t you people have JOBS?
WTF kind of “news” is this anyway? Isn’t there some fluffy kitten they can talk about? 'Cause this crap is just stupid.
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/10 "2004-07-30T19:26:57Z")
Good Lord. What a stooooopid little bint.
I hope her boss makes her do research on how few low-wage jobs offer medical insurance to pay for Prozac and what a tiny fucking minority of those offer mental-heath options _at all_.
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### Author:  [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/11 "2004-07-31T00:31:28Z")
And I was hoping this reffered to the Bush camp changing its mind about cracking down on pot purely just because someone found a way to make it more pleasurable (the fact that it’s more enjoyable, with no other known side-effects, means that it’s even more evil?).
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/12 "2004-07-31T00:33:24Z")
> [@neuroman](#):
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> 1. Some mid-level bozo makes a borderline offensive remark, and I’m supposed to care?
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> 2. I am greatly disappointed to find out no one in the Bush campaign is advocating illegal drug use, which was implied by the thread title.
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> 3. This is stupid.
Agreed. With my sarcastic sense of humor, I don’t think I’ll ever make it as a politician.
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/13 "2004-07-31T00:47:57Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#):
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> Good Lord. What a stooooopid little bint.
> I hope her boss makes her do research on how few low-wage jobs offer medical insurance…
The best teacher is _experience_. They should get her a prescription for prozac, and then fire her.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/14 "2004-07-31T00:54:56Z")
It could be the opening, the movement of the Bushiviks to exploit a previously untapped section of the public. Though I don’t see where she actually implies that these drugs and others will be provided by the Admin…
“So, like, I sign this absentee ballot and I get free drugs?”
“One from the Schedule A, two from Schedule B, just like the sign says.”
“Cool. So, I’m like, voting for this guy Bush?”
“Right. Iraq doesn’t bother you, does it?”
“A rock?”
“Never mind. Sign here…”
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### Author:  [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/15 "2004-07-31T01:01:53Z")
The Bush campaign didn’t advocate Prozac for disgrunted workers any more than the Kerry campaign stiffed an airport. Attributing the crappy choice of words or unfortunate financial mix-up of some campaign worker to the entire operation is a tiresome and unnecessary tactic.
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/16 "2004-07-31T01:23:43Z")
I don’t think that this little bitch speaks for the whole of the Bush campaign, but all the same I hope she winds up with a shit job and has to whore herself out to afford prozac.
I spend 10 bloody months to find one single shit job and this cunt says “find a new one or take a prozac.” Funny girl :mad:
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/17 "2004-07-31T01:28:13Z")
And yet furthers the stereotype of those on anti-depressants who just gleefully pop their “happy pills”.
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/18 "2004-07-31T04:16:43Z")
So what? She made an off-color joke to a fellow office worker that _happened_ (dumb luck) to be overheard by a reporter. I have said, and heard said, a lot worse. But then, biting sarcasm is the rule of the day in my job.
She should learn to watch what she says when there’s the possibility of being overheard. Beyond that, I see no great sin, here.
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### Author:  [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/19 "2004-07-31T05:05:21Z")
Why should only poor people get Prozac?
Prozac AND Ritalin should be in the water supply. Think of how happy and productive we’d all be 🙂
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/20 "2004-07-31T11:35:42Z")
> [@spooje](#):
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> She should learn to watch what she says when there’s the possibility of being overheard.
Yeah, we don’t want the working class to know what we think of them.
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