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10-30-2000, 08:24 PM
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"I've told the American people all I'm going to tell them - is that I made mistakes - years ago. And I've learned from them," George Walker Bush, Republican candidate for President in 2000, and Governor of Texas told MSNBC journalist David Bloom in August 1999.
The question of whether Shrub had used illegal drugs in his past was then raging in the media, with Shrub steadily refusing to address the question. When he did finally give some sort of answer, it was a mere qualifier, one that went through at least three changes in two days. Now the question seems forgotten.
"The game of trying to force me to prove a negative and chase down ugly, unsubstantiated rumors has got to end, so I'm going to end it," Shrub told reporters. CNN News quotes him saying he wouldn’t answer the questions about his possible youthful drug use, as it may send a signal that "whatever I may have done is OK."
What? That is exactly the point. If Shrub can be a presidential candidate without one day of mandatory treatment or imprisonment, or even a day in court to answer for his bad habits, why should he have signed into law such extremely harsh anti-drug laws in the Longhorn State, Texas?
After repeating mantra-like, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible," Shrub finally deigned to answer a Dallas Morning News question (August, 2000), about whether he could pass the FBI background check for federal employees. Saying he understood the current form asks if illegal drugs were taken in the last 7 years, he could answer a firm "No" to that. Then Bush changed it to say he could pass it when his Daddy, Thin-Lips, No-New-Taxes, friend-of-the-Drug-Traffickers, George Herbert Bush, was President. Shrub's staff rushed to get it clarified for the media both again by the next day, by asserting that not only could he pass it while his Daddy was President, he could pass it for the last twenty-five years, back to 1974. Which begs the question: what about the twenty-eight years before that? What "youthful indiscretions" was Shrub engaged in that he is too ashamed to admit today?
Shrub passed severe mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession and sales in Texas, in addition to federal mandatory sentences already in place. Teen drug use, according to the 1998 Texas School Survey of Substance Use Among Student, Grades 7-12, Texas Commission on Drugs and Alcohol Abuse, while dropping around the country for the most part, has risen thirty percent in Texas under Shrub, despite[Or most likely because of] the insanely repressive drug policies.
While it isn't possible to blame the son for the sins of his father, it is possible to point out that Bush Senior was partly responsible for propping up Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-dealing dictator. Once Noriega began to chafe under his CIA-US yoke, Bush had him indicted in US court for drug trafficking, then told reporters that nothing Noriega might say could be believed, as he was an indicted drug criminal, and obviously not trustworthy. This is the kind of upbringing Shrub was influenced by and subjected to.
It is apparent that Shrub doesn’t hold traditional American values very highly.
Consider the case of Zack Exley and his GWBush.com Web site. Exley is one of the few to ask how in the hell Shrub can enforce laws that he himself apparently broke during his days of youthful indiscretion? Bush told reporters that "there ought to be limits to freedom," describing his attempts to shut down Exley's site.
To think Shrub wants to be the President of the Land of the Free.
Research by Preston Peet
"I've told the American people all I'm going to tell them - is that I made mistakes - years ago. And I've learned from them," George Walker Bush, Republican candidate for President in 2000, and Governor of Texas told MSNBC journalist David Bloom in August 1999.
The question of whether Shrub had used illegal drugs in his past was then raging in the media, with Shrub steadily refusing to address the question. When he did finally give some sort of answer, it was a mere qualifier, one that went through at least three changes in two days. Now the question seems forgotten.
"The game of trying to force me to prove a negative and chase down ugly, unsubstantiated rumors has got to end, so I'm going to end it," Shrub told reporters. CNN News quotes him saying he wouldn’t answer the questions about his possible youthful drug use, as it may send a signal that "whatever I may have done is OK."
What? That is exactly the point. If Shrub can be a presidential candidate without one day of mandatory treatment or imprisonment, or even a day in court to answer for his bad habits, why should he have signed into law such extremely harsh anti-drug laws in the Longhorn State, Texas?
After repeating mantra-like, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible," Shrub finally deigned to answer a Dallas Morning News question (August, 2000), about whether he could pass the FBI background check for federal employees. Saying he understood the current form asks if illegal drugs were taken in the last 7 years, he could answer a firm "No" to that. Then Bush changed it to say he could pass it when his Daddy, Thin-Lips, No-New-Taxes, friend-of-the-Drug-Traffickers, George Herbert Bush, was President. Shrub's staff rushed to get it clarified for the media both again by the next day, by asserting that not only could he pass it while his Daddy was President, he could pass it for the last twenty-five years, back to 1974. Which begs the question: what about the twenty-eight years before that? What "youthful indiscretions" was Shrub engaged in that he is too ashamed to admit today?
Shrub passed severe mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession and sales in Texas, in addition to federal mandatory sentences already in place. Teen drug use, according to the 1998 Texas School Survey of Substance Use Among Student, Grades 7-12, Texas Commission on Drugs and Alcohol Abuse, while dropping around the country for the most part, has risen thirty percent in Texas under Shrub, despite[Or most likely because of] the insanely repressive drug policies.
While it isn't possible to blame the son for the sins of his father, it is possible to point out that Bush Senior was partly responsible for propping up Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-dealing dictator. Once Noriega began to chafe under his CIA-US yoke, Bush had him indicted in US court for drug trafficking, then told reporters that nothing Noriega might say could be believed, as he was an indicted drug criminal, and obviously not trustworthy. This is the kind of upbringing Shrub was influenced by and subjected to.
It is apparent that Shrub doesn’t hold traditional American values very highly.
Consider the case of Zack Exley and his GWBush.com Web site. Exley is one of the few to ask how in the hell Shrub can enforce laws that he himself apparently broke during his days of youthful indiscretion? Bush told reporters that "there ought to be limits to freedom," describing his attempts to shut down Exley's site.
To think Shrub wants to be the President of the Land of the Free.
Research by Preston Peet