Can we talk about Bush and Cocaine now?

[Junkdrawer]

Bush's refusal to take the National Guard flight physical in 1972 make no sense UNLESS you know that those were the years that Bush refuses to talk about. And wasn't James Bath one of the Chimpmeister's coke buddies? And didn't he also refuse the flight physical?

Kerry has issued his FIRST ROUND of questions here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0427b.html

Here's a site with more questions:
http://www.bulatlat.com/news/4-9/4-9-readerquestions.html

1. President Bush, were you arrested for cocaine in 1972 in Harris County, Texas (Houston area)?

2. President Bush, in 1972 did your father arrange to have your cocaine arrest expunged from the records through a judge, a close-acquaintance of your fathers, in exchange for you to perform community service at Project Pool, a Houston inner-city program that mentors youth in poor neighborhoods?

3. President Bush, was your friend from the National Guard, James R. Bath, arrested for cocaine around the same time? Is this why both of your National Guard records show suspensions in 1972 for refusal to submit to annual medical exams? Is this why you were no longer allowed to fly? If so, why did you make up the story that you no longer WANTED to fly?

4. President Bush, do you remember Bill Calhoun from your National Guard duty in Alabama? No one else remembers your serving in the National Guard in Alabama at that time, but "coincidentally" the Republican National Committee suddenly found this Bill Calhoun to vouch for you. Is Mr. Calhoun a paid operative of the Republican Party? Or did he just volunteer to lie to save your reputation?

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[whistle]

1. Dubya may wonder if these are...

...true or false questions or multiple choice.:tinfoilhat:

[union_maid]

2. Oh, yeah...and not just at that time, either

The attacks on Kerry seem to open the doors to taking a long hard look at the "youthful indescretions" of our candidates. If using the term "war crimes" to describe war crimes in one's twenties is a misstep then what exactly is partying until you have to find God to keep you off the various substances you've abused? Until, what, age 40?

[Junkdrawer]

3. Yep. I think the door is now WIDE open....

and there's no Hatfield to smear this time....

[JPJones]

4. Poor George, he was born with a silver spoon in his nose n/t

[kentuck]

5. But what about his driver's license ?

Why did he have to get a new driver's license? Why did he lose his other?

[Junkdrawer]

6. Let me get this straight: Project Pool was during his "Alabama" year...

the wealthy, "know to be a party animal" scion shows up in Houston to do "voluntary" inner city community service during the same year he is supposedly in the Alabama National Guard? And the press buys this with no questions asked?

[mopaul]

7. it's a non-issue. but if it had been Clinton?.......

they'd be all over it and he'd have been hung from a tree already.
they searched every day of Bill's life to find scandals they could harp about, and if it'd been Bill...well, no sense finishing the sentence.

[Junkdrawer]

8. Here's the Tom Tomorrow and Bush Watch reports...

POLITEX: BUSH HAS FIRST-TIMER MOTHER, 27, IN JAIL FOR TRACE AMOUNTS OF COCAINE. Many Texans who believe Bush used coke before his 28th birthday must consider him an opportunistic hypocrite because he purposely proposed tightening up the drug laws for first-timers in order to win votes when he ran against Governor Ann Richards in 1994. That same year, with the state prisons overflowing, " Richards signed a new penal code whose provisions included automatic probation for first-time offenders caught with a recreational quantity of drugs," writes Michael Daly in Sunday's New York Daily News. Bush was at the time campaigning to get Richards' job, but both he and Richards declined to discuss if they ever used drugs. Bush "produced a survey of Harris County prosecutors that derided the law as "Penal Code Lite."...'Those on the front lines of criminal justice agree with me in describing the new penal code as a joke,' Bush said. 'This survey should give the governor a much needed reality check.' A news report noted that Bush 'told supporters that he thinks individuals must be held accountable for personal behavior.' He did his best to make everyone forget that Richards had doubled the time violent offenders served in prison and was leading the nation in executions. He continued to hammer her for being lite on crime right up to election day. As the new governor, Bush signed a new new penal code that ended automatic probation for first-time offenders," adds Daly.

Last Tuesday a "27-year-old mother of two... appeared as a first-time offender in the 230th District Court of Harris County. The woman had been in a car with two other people in Houston when the police rolled up and announced they were illegally parked. The police would later maintain that the woman made a 'furtive movement.' 'You touch your nose, it's a furtive movement,' says her attorney, Bob Scott. The police would contend that they only searched the car and its contents for their 'own protection.' A handbag in the backseat proved to contain a glass pipe. The pipe had no visible traces of drugs, and a New York cop would have just thrown it away. These Texas cops were determined to make it their business if she had taken cocaine. They submitted the suspect item to the lab....Yee hah! The lab reported that the pipe contained cocaine 'residue.'...The woman knew without asking that pleading none of your business was not an option. She took the eight months to be served in the prison system whose ultimate boss was busy seeking the Republican nomination for president"

"As the woman began her Texas-size sentence for residue, Bush was making some decidedly furtive motions about his own possible cocaine use." Daly reminds us that Bush's "refusal to address the issue directly made him seem too much like our current President. He also sounded like somebody of a social class where you can make your indiscretions without worrying about being rousted and searched on some pretext like illegal parking." As you know, Bush eventually implied and his spinners said that he hasn't used hard drugs between age 28 and the present. He said the purpose of telling that to reporters was to indicate that he could get a clearance for a top-level job in the Clinton White House. We've since learned that Bush's statement was not correct, since the present White House form requests the applicant to fess up to any drug use since his 18th birthday. Getting back to the woman, Bush at 28 "was one year older than the woman currently in jail for residue. She will finish learning from her mistake by next spring, and by then Bush might have discovered that all his campaign millions cannot make up for his failure to give one straight answer." 8/22/99


http://www.bushwatch.com/bushcoke.htm

[Junkdrawer]

9. Did Bush commit perjury on his Clinton White House application?

As you know, Bush eventually implied and his spinners said that he hasn't used hard drugs between age 28 and the present. He said the purpose of telling that to reporters was to indicate that he could get a clearance for a top-level job in the Clinton White House. We've since learned that Bush's statement was not correct, since the present White House form requests the applicant to fess up to any drug use since his 18th birthday

[cap]

10. bush was working at Project Pull in 1972...

at a MLK Community Center in Houston...

Why aren't these photo ops of Bush's compassionate conservatism?

[Junkdrawer]

11. Thanks for the correction. My initial link had "Project Pool" n/t

[Junkdrawer]

12. Kick

:kick:

[Poiuyt]

13. Great Questions for a Town Hall Debate

Since the press doesn't have enough backbone to ask these kinds of questions, wouldn't you love to see then asked at a Town Hall style meeting? Of course, I doubt that bush will agree to anything like that. He can't handle a forum where the questions aren't scripted for him ahead of time.

[BabsSong]

14. One can ask if snorting coke is just a cute youthful "indiscretion" or

the worst kind of AWOL in time of war????????? It ain't cute George if it could have put your fellow military men in harms way. Who knows with that war. These guys could have been called up if it got down to it.