from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ----- Click Here: <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:617107">George W. Bush's Booze And Drug Problems...</A> ----- Subject: George W. Bush's Booze And Drug Problems... From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </A> (Abemarf) Date: Tue, May 23, 2000 12:58 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...the allegations just won't go away !!! ******************************************** [ London Sunday Times ] UNITED STATES January 23, 2000 Bush hit by claims of 'lost weekends' in Mexico Tom Rhodes, New York A BOOK to be published this week about George W Bush, the Republican frontrunner, claims his father's chief of staff admitted in 1998 that the candidate had taken cocaine during the 1970s. Michael Dannenhauer, chief of staff to former president George Bush, is said to have told Toby Rogers, a journalist with the Houston Public News, a newspaper in Texas (where Bush Jr is governor), that the politician was "out of control" from the time he attended Yale University. "There was cocaine use, lots of women, but the drinking was the worst," the aide is alleged to have said. Dannenhauer purportedly also told Rogers of an admission by the former president that his son experienced "lost weekends in Mexico". Rumours of drug abuse have plagued Bush Jr for months since he declared himself a candidate in the presidential race. Since character is an important election issue, the latest claims are bound to rekindle interest in Bush's past. He has admitted to a "misspent youth", but has repeatedly evaded questions about cocaine. The claims will come under intense scrutiny. They were never published by the Houston newspaper, which has since closed. The story was briefly aired on September 13 last year by The Greenwich Village Gazette, an internet magazine in New York, but was pulled from its website. The publisher was concerned about legal action and the absence of any second source to support the allegation that Bush had started to use cocaine "some time before 1977". In a taped conversation with Rogers, Dannenhauer subsequently called the allegations a "total lie". He initially denied they had met, then claimed the interview had taken place years earlier. Rogers, now a freelance contributor to various publications including The Village Voice, the respected liberal paper in New York, claims a photograph apparently showing the two men together was taken on April 21, 1998. The allegations appear in the introduction to a revised biography of Bush by J H Hatfield, a Texan writer. The first imprint of his book, Fortunate Son, published in October last year, was withdrawn from shops after it emerged that Hatfield had served a five-year prison sentence for soliciting the attempted murder of his boss at a finance company in 1987. The book, with additional material from Rogers, is now being reissued by Soft Skull, a radical publishing company based in New York. It retains hotly disputed accusations made in the earlier version, which cited claims by three anonymous sources - one of them identified as a former Bush contemporary at Yale and another said to be an unofficial political adviser - that Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession. The book alleges that the record was expunged by a friendly judge as a favour to Bush Sr. Both father and son strenuously deny the claims. Last night Scott McClellan, the Bush presidential campaign spokesman, said: "This book belongs to science fiction. All allegations in it are ridiculous, false and libellous." Hatfield alleges that in return for a clean slate the judge ordered Bush to perform community service as a youth counsellor at the Professionals United for Leadership League (Pull), an urban poverty programme in Houston. The former president, however, has said he referred his son to the youth centre after an incident in which Bush drove drunk with his brother as a passenger. Sixty Minutes, the CBS documentary show, is due to broadcast an interview with Hatfield next month, raising the prospect that his allegations will attract further attention as the primaries get under way. ===== Subject: More About George W.'s Drug Abuse From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </A> (Abemarf) Date: Tue, May 23, 2000 1:13 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Seems like George W. Bush would make a great "vice" President !!! =================== Bush Jr.'s Skeleton Closet {<A HREF="http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm}">http://www.realchange.org/bus hjr.htm}</A> Party Hearty: Sex, Drugs, And Rock 'N Roll? For almost half his life, Junior was distinguished mainly by his hearty appetite for partying. A Newsweek profile by Evan Thomas, describing his college years, says he "seems to have majored in beer drinking at the Deke House." After he formed his first company (which failed), Thomas writes, "By his own account, Bush spent a lot of time in bars, trying to sort out who he was. He had a kind of ragged nervous energy in that period, and he could be a bully." The Bush family spin is that the governor quit drinking cold turkey on his 40th birthday, straightened out by the love of a good woman (his wife, Laura.) They even pull out their secret weapon, lovable Barbara Bush, with anecdotes about what a rascal little George Junior was. But the explosive element here is not booze. It's sex, drugs and hypocrisy. Frankly, it doesn't bother us if candidates have partied, even a lot. Who wants a bunch of namby-pamby boy scouts running the country? But George Bush Jr. makes a big point of travelling around the country and lecturing students on staying celibate, sober and drug free. He does not permit the option of partying hard until you're 40 and then stopping. And as governor, he attacked his predecessor for allowing leniency toward first-time drug users, and pushed a "no tolerance" policy that has sent casual cocaine users -- who's dads aren't rich, or president -- to prison for years. He even has the gall to proclaim that such users "need to know that drug use has consequences." At least if you're from the wrong neighborhood. No Handcuffs or Dwarf Orgies Junior is so worried about his past that he hired a private detective to investigate himself. (I guess he can't remember what he did at those parties, which tells you something right there.) According to an unnamed insider quoted on MSNBC, Bush "isn't terribly thrilled" about what they found, though no one is spilling the details (yet). "No handcuffs or dwarf orgies, but he was a handsome, rich playboy and lived that life," the insider said. Sex: Bush volunteers to reporters that he has been faithful to his wife. However, he was married at 31 and makes no claim of virginity before that point, even as he lectures the youth of today to remain celibate. A Clinton aide who was in Bush's class at Yale has already warned him that "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." COCAINE: According to a new book, three independent sources close to the Bush family report that Governor Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward. (In another new book, reporter Bill Minutaglio, writes that the year of community service was arranged by the Governor's father, ex-president Bush, after he caught Bush Jr. driving drunk.) That year certainly is out of character with the rest of Bush Jr.'s life. Before and after 1972, he was a rich, hard drinking playboy. Suddenly, and only that one time in his life, he worked for a liberal charity in an inner city ghetto. As soon as the year was over, he resumed his previous pattern and has done no charity work since. The author of this new book, J. H. Thompson, has some interesting scandals of his own. Of course, his own flaws don't disprove what Bush did or didn't do, but the way Thompson has responded certainly undercuts his credibility. First, he admitted to a reporter from Slate Magazine that he made up at least one detail, that one of his informants spat tobacco into a styrofoam cup during their (phone!) interview. Then, reporters -- or perhaps Bush campaign operatives -- found that the author apparently is an ex-convict, on parole for hiring a hit man to kill a former boss. That doesn't mean he can't research, of course, but Thompson's credibility suffered greatly as he claimed it was someone else, despite incredible similarities between his resume -- including unexplained job gaps during the prison years -- and confirmation from his parole officer that indeed, the author named J. H. Thompson is the one who did time. Bush Jr.'s Evasive Responses: Bush has essentially admitted that he used cocaine in his Clintonesque, carefully worded partial denials. He won't deny using cocaine or marijuana, though under persistent questioning he said that he hadn't used cocaine in the last 7 years. Most newspapers report that he denies using cocaine since 1974, but that's not exactly true. That is the most favorable interpretation of what Bush said, but since Bush and his campaign have already made Clintonesque denials on other issues, we need to look at his words carefully. What Bush actually said was ""I could have passed the [FBI] background check on the standards applied on the most stringent conditions when my dad was president of the United States - a 15-year period," Mr. Bush said. This is ambiguous because background forms ask slightly different questions, depending on the position. Drug questions can go back one year, seven years or 10 years. Bush Jr. didn't have any formal position in his father's administration, so which one applies is unclear. And 15-years is not one of the choices. Since Bush Sr.'s presidency began in January 1989, reporters assumed that Jr. was denying drug use for 15 years before that, to 1974. But that is not at all clear. His only direct statement was for seven years before today. He could easily have been denying drug use only for 15 years before today, based on 7 or 10 years dating back from the END of his dad's term. 10 years before 1993, the end of Bush Sr.'s term, is pretty close to 15 years before today. The Clinton administration actually has a stricter standard than Bush did -- the FBI now asks about any drug use after age 18. But Governor Bush has refused to say whether he would pass that standard, even though that is what he will be asked if he wins. Bush also has refused to answer whether he could have passed the FBI test when his father was vice president, during the 8 years from 1981-1989. As for the arrest and diversion charge, Governor Bush admits working at the center in 1972. When asked for comment, Bush's campaign spokesman reportedly said "Oh shit... no comment." McLellan denies saying that. Bush's father, ex-president George Bush, denies the cocaine arrest charge, and in yet another carefully worded denial, Bush said ""It's totally ridiculous what he suggested and it's not true." You'll recall that President Clinton made a very similar statement about Gennifer Flower's allegations of an affair, during the 1992 campaign. Later, when he had to testify under oath, it turned out that he was denying that all of the details of the story were true, not whether an affair had occurred or any specific details (many of which were accurate). Similarly, Bush himself does not deny being caught with cocaine, or having performed community service. Bush's campaign spokesman has now denied that Bush was ever arrested on any drug charge. The director of the center, Madgelean Bush (no relation), also denies the reports. However, her center is dependent on Texas state money, and the director, who grew up poor but has amassed several houses around the center while running it, allowed Governor Bush to use the center for a photo opportunity earlier this year. The Bush campaign also produced Carol Vance, who was the Democratic District Attorney in Harris County in 1972, to say that there was no diversion program in that year, nor were there any Republican judges (as Hatfield's book states.) Rock and Roll: Bush keeps a picture of himself with two members of ZZ Top, but does not play the song "Tube Steak Boogie" during his celibacy lectures. We have found no evidence to support the the most explosive allegation so far; that Bush played air guitar to a Foghat record at a party in the late 1970s. But he won't deny it, either. When pressed on the hypocrisy issue, he speaks to hypocritical baby boomer parents everywhere: "If I were you, I wouldn't tell your kids that you smoked pot unless you want 'em to smoke pot. I think it's important for leaders, and parents, not to send mixed signals. I don't want some kid saying, 'Well, Governor Bush tried it.'" It's amazing enough that he openly defends hypocrisy, but his own signals are very mixed. When allowed to imply that he is just another manly, hard-drinking rapscallion, Bush seizes the opportunity. "When I was young and irresponsible, I was really young and irresponsible," he often says. He even hints at pot smoking, as in the above quote, and why not? Everyone from his likely opponent Al Gore to Newt Gingrich has admitted smoking pot. But Junior wants it both ways. When the deadly rumor of cocaine use surfaces, he retreats to his high-minded rhetoric about not giving mixed messages. If he thinks he can skate to the presidency without either his right-wing foes or embittered Clintonistas pushing his past into the limelight, then he really IS on drugs. Sources The Bush Watch (web site), an opinionated, well-researched and reasonably fair (though blatantly liberal) anti-Bush site. <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Capit">http://www.geocities.com/Capit</A> olHill/3750/bush.htm "The Sons Also Rise", by Evan Thomas, Newsweek, November 16, 1998 p44-8 "Like Most, I'm Amazed" (Bush interview with Howard Fineman), Newsweek, November 16, 1998 "Another Bush Contemplates Run for Presidency", by Sue Anne Pressley (Washington Post news service), San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 1997 pA5 "The Bush Brothers", by Howard Fineman, Newsweek, November 2, 1998 p30-33 Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N Roll Sources "Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President", by J. H. Hatfield, St. Martin's Press, 1999 (withdrawn) First Son : George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, by Bill Minutaglio, Times Books, 1999 Bush denies allegation of '72 drug arrest in book, By Michael Kranish, Boston Globe, 10/20/99 pA10 Bush Adds to Drug Use Statement", Dallas Morning News, August 20, 1999 to Busting Bush's Biographer, by Jacob Weisberg, Slate Magazine, Oct. 19, 1999 "Author alleging Bush drug arrest reportedly a felon: He denies being Texas convict, says similar names led to mistake", By Pete Slover, The Dallas Morning News, October 21, 1999 "George W. Bush, the dirt digger" by Jeannette Walls, MSNBC's "The Scoop" gossip column. GOP insiders have privately confirmed to The Skeleton Closet that Bush hired the private detective, and that he was a very sexy and highly sexed bachelor. 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