I can’t believe it. Only a few hours after declaring “victory” (again), Bush is caught in broad daylight being handed a “gift” by an “admirer.”
Incontrovertable evidence: the picture at the top of http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1045000/1045109.stm
Is that 100 grams? 200 grams? I demand a recount!
You aren’t counting the fact that his first cousin “called” the election first on election night(where he is Fox news director)?
Actually, Florida was “called” for Gore before that announcement. The media had to retract their “call’s” when it became apparent that Florida is more than just two large towns and you need to wait for the polls to close in the entire state before you “call” and election.
Hell, I’ve got a cousin who manages a bar on 6th St. (which shall remain nameless) in Austin. Apparently, GWB and the boys are known to come in for a drink or two–all of them, and recently. I suppose if Gore stretches the truth about policy, Shrub can do the same about not being a drunk, huh?
BTW, my cousin voted Repub., because he figures they’ll do better by the 190K he brought home last year.
Florida was called for Gore around 7 ish on election day. Dubya was eating dinner with his brother, Jeb. Jeb said as soon as the results were announced, that it didn’t matter because Bush had, in reality, won Florida. Does that not seem a wee bit suspicious?
Are you serious? Are you trying to say that GWB has been seen drinking alcohol in public, and no one has reported this? What kind of bar is this, a secret speakeasy? You mean that NO ONE ever has felt the need to inform the media that they saw a Presidential Candidate (who claims to have been dry for YEARS) drinking in a bar just recently?
This defies logic.
Yosemite Babe: Wouldn’t be surprised. It would be logical that the major news outlets, of which there are about a dozen, would have checked the police records in the home towns of the candidates just for the hell of it, but it took some Democrat from Hell to turn up that DUI arrest. Never underestimate the stupidity of a reporter.
don Jaime: I’m not suggesting that the media dropped the ball in not knowing about GWB supposedly drinking in public.
I am suggesting that it defies logic that a public figure like GWB, who has proclaimed over and over that he no longer drinks could drink alcohol in a public place. And yet, never attract the notice of ordinary citizens when he DRINKS ALCOHOL IN PUBLIC. One of the other people in this public place, more than one of them, would have dropped the dime on GWB by now. Word would have certainly gotten out. It defies logic to think otherwise.
Wow! Your cousin manages a bar and makes $190k a year! If the bar is a franchise, give us a hint about the name.
This is definite proof that there is no “liberal media bias”. Every lie about Gore sticks to Gore, while every truth about GWB bounces off him or is not covered until very late.
Uh, quite the contrary, it has seemed. Do you have any cites to back that up? (A cite in MPSIMS… wow!)
Not in the slightest. What’s so suspicious about one man providing uplifting support to his brother?
Here’s a hint: Not all Republicans are “in” on some vast, Right-wing conspiracy.
hypergirl:
hypergirl, I don’t like Republicans in general and I don’t like the Bushes, any of the Bushes, in particular. I think they’re cynical, ruthless and amoral.
BUT: I don’t think Jeb rigged Florida for his brother. I wouldn’t put it past him morally, but I have to think that if he had done so, the margin of victory wouldn’t have been so narrow and we wouldn’t have all this doubt and recounting. The state would have gone for Bush as unquestionably as Wyoming, or my own state, Georgia, did.
Here’s why: you can’t always tell by looking at a drink if it contains alcohol. There are multitudes of non alcohlic beers, and many mixed drinks can be mistaken either way. Only the bartender who mixed the drink or the person who took the order could be really certain about the specific order.
Back in the old days when I’d be at a bar, I would have a glass with ice in it and something (oj, water, etc.) but never booze. Only the bartender knew.
Actually, yes, we all are. SPOOFE was just giving the standard deny-everything answer. Very soon, the local militias will overthrow the government and make liberalism a crime. BwaHaHaHaHa! 
Wring, don’t you think if these bar visits were a common occurance, SOMEONE would’ve made a point to eavesdrop, (I was just going to the mens’ room…) or bribe a server, etc.? If it was a single occurance, GWB may have gotten away with it. Not repeatedly.
Depends - when did he start having questions about his drinking etc.? and start being specific about it? my memory is that his first statements were that he had “youthful indescretions” but declined to get specific. The only time I recall him claiming long time sobriety is recently when the DUI came out.
Maybe some one would have noticed etc. maybe not. but I don’t think its a certainty either way. FTR, I doubt that his supporters would care, I doubt that the folks around him would let him drink in public anyhow.
My point was simply that one cannot assume the contents of other’s glasses at a bar.
Obviously y’all aren’t familiar with Texas/Oklahoma politics and the press. It’s kind of like Elvis and the Memphis Mafia–everybody knows everybody else, and reporters who want access to stories in the future know to shut the hell up about little pecadilloes. It’s not like it’s a big secret, though–look at The Smoking Gun’s website for the video of GWB hammered at a wedding after he supposedly stopped drinking.
But back to my point, in that part of the country, you take your career and your ass in your own hands playing against the power structure/good-ol’-boy network.
Hmm…, so stofsky (as anonymous as the rest of us here) cites a nameless manager of a nameless bar. I’m afraid there’s hardly enough detail to consider that report to have any significance.
IMHO, of course.
Well, like Wring said-it didn’t have to be booze. Maybe he was having club soda, or ginger ale while his brothers drank.
(Not that I’d put it past the guy…)
Not at all. I’m merely passing on information I was given, though I doubt my cousin would like being named as a source: if he wanted to he could go to the press. Take it for what it’s worth.
As to his income, imagine Bourbon St. near one of the biggest universities in the country, every night. That’s what 6th St. is like.