When Bush was drinking, did he beat his wife?

[greenbriar]

I am thinking somewhere I read he was a not pleasant husband???

or am I just thinking/wishing

[alvis]

1. Well

he's not really a pleasant president.

[napi21]

2. I don't know but we could start the rumor!

Isn't that what the Pubs do? Circulate the rumor and make us defend the acusations?

[galadrium]

3. I wouldn't surprise me.

It would be very interesting to see how he acts when there aren't any cameras around.

[greenbriar]

4. I honestly remember reading something

to this effect.


I remember laura going on to say that shrub's stopping drinking saved their marriage...but I can't for the life of me remember when or where I read this

[huellewig]

33. The Jesus Factor..

On Frontline. It plays again this Thursday at 8 pm on PBS. It was a good show. You can also stream it from the PBS website.

[Sandpiper]

5. Nah, he was afraid she'd run him over

If he did. :-)

[troublemaker]

11. You win!

MEANEST... POST... EVER

[oldhat]

6. Dunno

I don't know but he did get crazy abusive when he was drunk. He got shitfaced in a diner once and saw Al Hunt (the journalist) and stumbled over to him and started screaming and cursing at him about an article he thought was negative about his dad and threatened him. Of course, Al Hunt didn't actually write the article.

This was reported in the New York Review of Books in an article called "Bush and God" a while back.

[Ilsa]

39. I heard that those threats included

Shrub cussing up a bluestreak right in front of Hunt's youngster.

[redqueen]

49. Bu$h was drunk and rattling off obscenities in front of a young child

You're exactly right.

[greenbriar]

7. I bet he makes her

"bow to his majesty"

and orders her around



I can here it now
"honey...its 10 pm time to go to bed"

[bobbieinok]

8. there was a salontabletalk thread about this in 2000---some news interview

where Barbara interrupted Laura's answer.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. it wasn't "beating"

it was "righting" his wife. You damn liberals are always avoiding discipline. It was like a college prank, okay?

[Poiuyt]

10. Someone should ask him if he's stopped beating her

Think he could figure out how to answer?

[Vickers]

13. Exactly! "Mr. President, did you stop beating your wife..."

"...once you finally got a handle on your drinking?"

[smallprint]

31. LOLOLOLOLOLOL

:spank:

OMG that's funny...

[mitchum]

12. It's too bad that his father didn't

[hexola]

14. "Only In America"...Time to drag out the Drunk Bush vid clip...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/packageart/bush/bush_tsg.mov

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/bush/bush.html

[proud patriot]

22. Wow , I hadn't seen that video before

He was Snockered

[hexola]

24. From 1992 - Bush supposedly went cold turkey in 1986

The Republican's wacky performance in this 1992 wedding video excerpt--shot years after Bush went cold turkey in July 1986

[Snoggera]

15. as much as I dislike the son of a bitch

I feel more pissed about this stupid, dumb assed, retarded question

more.

I wonder why?

[greenbriar]

16. ?

are you referring to my post question?

I honestly remember reading something along these lines...

maybe not "beating" his wife, but violence in their home?

[DieboldMustDie]

17. He tried to pick a fight with his father once while drunk.

[cliss]

18. I don't know for sure, but I saw a

movie clip of him while the Florida election results were still being debated. He was sitting in his living room - exquisite period furniture. He looked - pissed. He was fuming about how frustrating the whole thing was. "My brother took the brunt of this..." and then he stopped himself. He looked over at Jeb, fuming.

I could tell this was not a nice man. Shit, I thought. What if he wins?

[Poiuyt]

19. You're right, he's NOT a nice man

I sure as hell don't know how he's convinced America that he's compassionate

[pfitz59]

32. He lost,, but it didn't matter!

he has friends in high places.

[kskiska]

20. I've never heard of it but he does have a volatile temper

While driving home one night after giving a speech, he asked his wife's honest opinion of his performance. She told him it wasn't good. When they reached the driveway he drove the car into the garage door.

He also challenged his father to a fist fight after arriving home drunk one night and hitting the garbage cans.

[grasswire]

21. narcissists typically aren't ....

..... likely to indulge in physical violence. (Many believe Bush has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.) Mental cruelty and emotional abuse, yes. I was married to someone with NPD; someone very like *. He always stopped short of hitting me.

[kiahzero]

23. Or, you know, we could attack him on real issues

You know, things like Iraq, the economy, education, the environment, veterans benefits, corporate accountability, freedom of religion, among others.

[Stephanie]

26. We can do both

Hit em high
Hit em low
Hit em hard
Hit em again.


We don't get anywhere ceding them the low ground. We can't LIE like they do, but we can ask questions in search of the truth.

[nomatrix]

30. Or we could just wait

until the country goes bankrupt.

Ask that question. How close are we to defaulting? How close are we to ending up like the U.S.S.R.? Disillusioned, and divided. Overextended military. We have no extra money for any conflict.

Read people. Please. Sorrows of Empire. Chalmers Johnson. We are right on tract. Get your passports ready.

I don't care what people say about what he did to his wife. He is beating the crap out of us right here, right now.

[kiahzero]

36. That's pretty much what I just said.

I don't care what people say about what he did to his wife. He is beating the crap out of us right here, right now.

Indeed.

[Stephanie]

25. A legitimate question that needs to be asked

What exactly WAS the last straw that caused Laura to put her foot down? If he was a nice guy to be around after a few drinks I doubt Laura would have made such a fuss.

[voice of reason]

27. I think

she beat him.

v.o.r.

[eridani]

28. He slammed his car into a garage door once--

--with her in it. Maybe he has learned the skill of directing rage entirely toward inanimate objects.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e2147.htm

After a few speeches, he asked her - coming up the driveway on the way home from one - how his delivery was going over. Terrible, said the forthright wife. George W. drove his Pontiac Bonneville right into the garage wall.

[Hekate]

29. "Sir, when did you stop beating your wife?" is the correct phrase

It's an oldie as an insult, because it implies that he actually did beat her, without offering a shred of proof that such a thing is true. Plants the thought in other people's minds.

With Bush, I have no idea if Laura or the Twins were ever in danger. But ever since I first saw him on tv as our pResident, I have certainly read his body language as that of a bully who doesn't mind making physical threats to get his way. He enjoys talking about sending others to deal out death and damnation at his behest. How his wife can stand him I don't know, but tastes differ.

Hekate
who'd see him in the Underworld first

[Seabiscuit]

34. Onto it...

Hekate - I learned prior to entering law school that one of the things we'd be studying is phrases like: "When did you stop beating your wife?" The question is posed to raise the issue of improper questions that "assume facts not in evidence" - i.e., in this case, the question assumes, improperly, without any evidence, that you once beat your wife - before stopping.

Re: the original thread question: Who cares? I'm just disappointed that Laura didn't make the casting for the new "Stepford Wives" movie. :)

[leftofthedial]

35. he was an unfaithful and abusive shitstain of a husband

but in most fights, Laura kicked his ass.

[greenbriar]

37. I think it was a magazine article a couple of years back

I don't think I read positively that he beat her, but I do remember what was NOT said and that when he was drinking, life in the Bush home was "unpleasent"

[leftofthedial]

41. he is such an awful creature

spiteful, sneering, gleeful when he can inflict death, amoral . . .

I can't imagine what hell life in his home kust have been.

[UTUSN]

38. Kick for "Yep" n/t

[PretzelWarrior]

40. well, when she criticized his speech he rammed car into wall

so......you be the judge. According to Leno, he comes from a toxic set of parents. I think they are all going to hell. Just evil bunch of rats.

[UTUSN]

42. Can They Go SOONER Rather Than Later? n/t

[Paragon]

43. I seriously doubt it.

Obviously, Laura could kick the shit out of him. ;-)

[robbedvoter]

44. I once read an e-mail - account of a friend - kids on a playdate

It described an extremely irate W showing up to pick up the twins - screaming and making them leave the house with their shoes off - no time to wait.
It was "before he was saved" I think.

[greenbriar]

45. so that type of activity

could be the abuse...mmmm unpleasantness she was referring to

[Doctor_J]

46. he is really a mean person

so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Michael Harrington]

47. I can just see the little runt...

In a blind stupor, hitting her around knee level.

[greenbriar]

48. hehehe

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