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George Bush, Alcoholic - Part 5

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Posted on Jun 30, 2006

Yahoo! health columnist Patrick Moore wraps up his five-part series on George Bush’s untreated alcoholism with a zinger: “President Bush cannot be of service to his country until he looks inward and surrenders to the fact that he is an alcoholic, with all the challenges the disease of alcoholism carries with it.”


Patrick Moore at Yahoo!:

I love George Bush.  That may seem a strange statement from someone who has spent so much time talking about the president’s failings.  But there is a reason I can see those failings - I have had them myself, as have countless other alcoholics and drug addicts.  To us, the president’s behavior is no mystery.  In George Bush’s present, we see our past.  We remember the smoking ruins that were once our lives and would never wish them upon another human being. 

We know that recovery from alcoholism has nothing to do with the time span in between drinks.  George Bush may not have taken a drink in decades but he is still an alcoholic.  Booze and drugs are the medicines that allow alcoholics to live in the world.  Deprived of that medicine, alcoholics who refuse self-examination and spiritual growth become the sorriest of creatures: the dry drunk, living without a buffer to face the grandiose lies and selfish arrogance that define their character.  That state is truly torture.

I love George Bush as only one alcoholic can love another.  Alcoholics share a special language.  In our language, confrontation is love.  In our language, pain becomes laughter.  In the language of alcoholics, brutal truth telling is being of service.
Service is the way that alcoholics remain sober, rather than just dry, and the way that alcoholics can best be of service to one another is often with a good kick in the ass. 
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By AmeriPundit, July 1, 2006 at 11:00 pm #
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This is a little too much.

Regardless of how much “dry drunks” have in common with each other, the appropriate psychological evaluation would be “sociopath”.

The wanton disregard for human life, both at home and abroad, the pretentious manner in which the “Lord” is marched out as the guarantor of checks that cannot be cashed, and the ability to smirk as people suffer goes beyond alcoholism.

This behavior is not an indication of denial and methods of coping.  Rather, it is an infantile enjoyment at being given a false seat of privilege from which one can lord it over those falsely presumed inferior, separate, and not deserving of being included in the same species.

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By Raymond B. Brown, July 1, 2006 at 1:52 pm #
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I understand the point to the alcoholic-addict, but what of denial. Denial is the root of addiction and all the pain, ego, power, and greed that goes with it.
Let Bush admit the Truth, until he admits it, he is doomed and he will never control his own life.
I know that conditioning is the key to addiction and the easy part is stopping the use of alcohol-drugs, but changing how we think and behave is the hard part- we are always closer to relapse then recovery.

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