-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3750/bush.htm "By far the best of the sites devoted to an individual candidate is Bush Watch, created to keep an eye on Bush. All the news and incisive analysis of the candidate's campaign." London (UK) Independent, 5/10/99 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- TODAY'S COCAINE "CLARIFICATION" BY BUSH AND SPINNER IS JUST MORE WAFFLE-TALK. According to an AP report today, Bush held another press conference and said that "he could have passed stringent background checks for illegal drug use when his father was president, from 1989-1993." ASSUMING Bush meant that he would have taken the background check in January of 1989, that would mean that he's saying he hasn't used cocaine in 11 years, since he said yesterday that he hasn't used cocaine in the last seven years. However, Bush added, "Not only could I have passed in today's White House, I could have passed the standards applied under the most stringent conditions when my dad was president, a 15-year period." Of course, Poppy was only President for 4 years, and 7 and 4 equal 11, not 15. " Since "the Bush White House asked staff members if they had used any illegal drugs in the last 15 years," reporters may have ASSUMED that Bush meant those 15 years, but that's not what he said. ASSUMING Bush meant that he could have passed the 15-year drug test at the beginning of his father's presidency, that would make the total non-coke time 26 years, which is how a Bush spinner seems to have interpreted Dubya's statement: "Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said the Republican presidential front-runner was saying that he has not used illegal drugs at any time since 1974, when the 53-year-old Bush was 28." However, "Asked if Bush could have met the standard when his father was vice president, from 1981-1989, Tucker said, 'My understanding is he was answering questions regarding when his dad was president, not vice president,' leaving the actual non-coke span up in the air. What we're left with, then, is that we're sure Bush has not answered the question about cocaine use, one way or the other, prior to his 29th birthday. From age 29 on, we're in need of some clarification from Bush, not a spinner. A statement like "I didn't use hard drugs after age 29" would suffice. Until then, we're mired in waffle-talk. One way or the other, the question that has been asked for months remains unanswered, did Bush use hard drugs at any time in his life? Politex, 8/19/99 REUTERS: PRESENT WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION CHARTS APPLICANTS' DRUG USE BACK TO AGE 18. 8/19/99 BUSH SAYS HE HAS NOT USED COCAINE IN SEVEN YEARS "Gov. George W. Bush, dogged by criticism for refusing to say whether he has used illegal drugs, answered part of the question Wednesday and said he had not done so in the last seven years. Mr. Bush's statement came in response to a question from The Dallas Morning News about whether, as president, he would insist that his appointees answer drug-use questions contained in the standard FBI background check. 'As I understand it, the current form asks the question, 'Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?' and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is 'No,' Mr. Bush told The News....The Questionnaire for National Security Decisions, part of the background check, asks about illegal drug use going back seven years. Applicants also are asked if they have ever used illegal drugs while employed as a law officer, prosecutor or court official....FBI applicants can have used so-called hard drugs, such as cocaine and heroin five times in their lives, but not during the 10 years immediately before their applications, (according to FBI Agent Rene Salinas). Applicants take lie-detector tests to verify their answers to drug-use questions....'You are required to answer the questions fully and truthfully, the questionnaire says.... Mr. Bush, the GOP presidential front-runner, would not elaborate about drug use beyond seven years ago." Dallas Morning News, 8/19/99 COHEN: "BUSH IS A FIFTH AMENDMENT COKEHEAD." "Using cocaine is a crime for which many go to jail. The issue, then, is not so much what Bush did in the past but whether he is a hypocrite in the present. After all, he is tough as nails on drugs, having supported state legislation mandating jail for anyone caught with cocaine, even less than a gram. Would a bystander with the hearing of a German shepherd have heard him murmur, 'There but for the grace of God go I?' It would be nice to know. I happen to think Bush is a Fifth Amendment cokehead. If he had not used the stuff, he would certainly say so. After all, it's not as if he is such a reticent fellow. He has told us much about his past -- his drinking, his carousing, his lost youth, his meandering career path and how he gave up booze and found God. This is a stirring tale, and I am moved every time I hear it. But to quote yet another magazine (the National Review), 'If politicians want us to respect their privacy, they will first have to respect it themselves.' This, clearly, Bush has not done. He tells us, for example, that he never committed adultery but becomes indignant when the pesky press asks about cocaine use. It is an inconsistent position and leaves us all a bit in the dark: What, if anything, has Bush learned from the life he once led? Why, for instance, does he think that people who use cocaine recreationally ought to go to jail? What about marijuana or, for that matter, heroin? Does he think that if -- just if -- he once used marijuana or cocaine he should have done jail time? Can he empathize with others or, possibly, has his own experience convinced him that we ought to have jail as a deterrent? Should 600,000 people be arrested annually for breaking the marijuana laws? We would like to know." Washington Post, 8/19/99 TODAY'S HEADLINES ABOUT BUSH AND DRUGS DMN: BUSH SAYS NO DRUGS IN LAST SEVEN YEARS. 8/19/99 WP: BUSH REFUSES TO ANSWER FOR EARLIER DRUG USE. 8/19/99 MSNBC: YESTERDAY'S NEWS CONFERENCE WAS "CONTENTIOUS." 8/19/99 MSNBS: YESTERDAY'S BUSH/DRUGS PRESS CONFERENCE (video) 8/19/99 NYP: BURNING BUSH GETS SNIPPY WITH PRESS. 8/19/99 NYDN: IRRITATED BUSH LASHES OUT AT "ENEMIES." 8/19/99 ORIN: TESTY BUSH IS MISTAKE, SAYS GOP STRATEGIST. 8/19/99 NYT: IRKED BUSH BRUSHES OFF DRUG QUESTION. 8/19/99 HC: GOV. KEATING SAYS BUSH SHOULD "ADDRESS CONDUCT." 8/19/99 AP: CANDIDATES' ANSWER TO DRUG QUESTION. 8/19/99 AP: BUSH WON'T ANSWER DRUG QUESTIONS. 8/19/99 FWST: 7 IN 10 VOTERS "WANT TO KNOW" IF BUSH USED DRUGS. 8/19/99 COHEN: "BUSH IS A FIFTH-AMENDMENT COKEHEAD." 8/19/99 SAEN: BUSH CLAIMS COKE RUMORS "PLANTED." 8/19/99 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- FEATURED STORIES. POLITEX: CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM, GEORGE ! PART TWO (click) POLITEX: HOW TO TURN A "FLAP" INTO A CAMPAIGN CRISIS. FEATURED QUOTES. "Mr Hatch appeared to believe that recounting his impoverished early life would make him popular, so he told the bemused crowd that when he was first married he and his wife lived in a converted chicken coop. 'Maybe that's why he's called Hatch,' said a wit in the crowd." London Telegraph, 8/16/99 " McNeil, chairman of the nine-member funeral service commission, said Bush has never tried to interfere in the agency's investigation of SCI's embalming practices....McNeil said his only conversation about the controversy came at a Bush campaign stop in Fort Worth last fall. McNeil said he shook the governor's hand and said, 'I sure hope we haven't embarrassed you.' He said Bush told him, 'I will be embarrassed if you have not done your job.' " Ken Herman, Austin American-Statesman, 5/16/99 "According to Johnnie B. Rogers, a folksy lobbyist who now serves as SCI's lawyer, on April 15 he and Waltrip dropped off a letter at the governor's office demanding a halt to the investigation. Rogers told Newsweek that....Bush popped his head in and spotted Waltrip. 'Hey Bobby, are those people still messing with you?' Bush said, according to Rogers. When Waltrip said they were, Rogers recalled that the governor turned to him and said, 'Hey, Johnnie B. Are you taking care of him?' 'I'm doing my best, Governor,' Rogers said he replied." Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, 8/9/99 "Bush, who is not a defendant in the lawsuit, submitted a one-page affidavit to the court in which he says he has "had no conversations with Texas Funeral Services [sic] Commission officials, agents or representatives concerning the investigation of SCI by the Texas Funeral Services Commission or any dispute arising from it. I have had no conversations with SCI officials, agents or representatives concerning the investigation or any dispute arising from it." Robert Bryce, Salon, 8/5/99 for background...A BUSH WATCH SPECIAL: DUBYA AND THE GRAVEDIGGER. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- IOWA STRAW POLL RESULTS, HEADLINES, AND ANALYSIS ...because seven-tenths of one percent of Iowa voters have spoken ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Special Issues Austin Chronicle Austin 360 Dallas Morning News Newsweek Texas Monthly Texas Observer Time U.S. News Washington Post Weekly Standard "I Will do Everything in My Power to Restrict Abortions." Special Reports The Iowa Straw Poll Below Expectations The Mis-Education of G.W. Bush The Bush-Based Faith Fiasco Dubya and the Gravedigger. Junior Bush's "Willie Horton." George Double-Speak and The Exterminator How Bush Really Made His Millions Interviews Novak/Bush Interview 8/14/99 (Video in Three Parts: 1.Gun Control 2. Not Moderate 3. 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COMMISH. 8/19/99 WP: FORBES POLLING IOWA TO FIND BUSH WEAKNESSES. 8/19/99 AP: BUSH LOSING GROUND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 8/19/99 NOVAK: BUSH HOPES REPORTERS WILL STOP ASKING. 8/19/99 ZION: BILL SAYS GEORGE HAS "GLASS JAW." 8/19/99 WILLS: V.P. HATCH WOULD SHAPE "VAPORY BUSH RHETORIC. 8/19/99 SKELTON: DOG DAYS EQUAL HYPE FOR STRAW THING. 8/19/99 NYT: BUSH CRIME RECORD CONSERVATIVE, NOT COMPASSIONATE. 8/18/99 DOWD: BUSH USES SOME, NOT ALL, PAST HISTORY. 8/18/99 RENO: UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF G.W.BUSH. 8/18/99 PAGE: BUSH NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH. 8/18/99 JTA: JEWS WAITING FOR EXPLICIT BUSH POSITIONS. 8/18/99 OLIPHANT: GRUMPY BUSH CAMPAIGN DOING AN ABOUT-FACE. 8/17/99 LT(UK): BUSH OFFERING RIVALS MONEY TO QUIT RACE. 8/16/99(P.M.) AP: SEN. SAYS "BLACK WITH ILLIGITIMATE CHILD" WOULD STOP BUSH. 8/17/99 Bush Execution News IVINS: BUSH COULD COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCE OF MENTALLY ILL. 8/5/99 SANDERS: MENTALLY ILL ROBISON SLATED FOR EXECUTION AUGUST 17TH. 8/5/99 NANDO: BUSH BOARD DENIES CLEMENCY TO MENTALLY ILL KILLER. 8/15/99 SAEN ED: BUSH HAS OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY COMPASSION. 8/15/99 LABBE: WERE ROBISON'S VOICES AN INVENTION? 8/17/99 AP: BUSH TO DECIDE STAY OF EXECUTION. 8/17/99 WP: COURT DELAYS TEXAS EXECUTION. 8/18/99 AAS: AWAITING EXECUTION, KILLER FELT LIKE "KID AT CHRISTMAS." 8/18/99 Bush Gun News SALON: RECENT BUSH FUND-RAISER MADE L.A. ASSAULT RIFLE. 8/12/99 NYP: PRO-GUN BUSH AN EASY TARGET. 8/12/99 NEWSWEEK: GUNS DANGEROUS TO BUSH. 8/16/99 Bush Talk Interview WILL: DOES BUSH COME OFF COURSE AND CRUEL IN TALK? 8/11/99 DMN: BAUER: BUSH TALK COMMENTS "INAPPROPRIATE, DISGUSTING." 8/11/99 HC: BAUER: BUSH MOCKED WOMAN PUT TO DEATH. 8/12/99 NANDO: BUSH INTERVIEW TALK OF TALK. 8/12/99 WP: BUSH DEFENDS TALK INTERVIEW. 8/13/99 AP: PAT TELLS GEORGE TO CLEAN UP LANGUAGE. 8/13/99 PRUDEN: TALK'S FOR "BIMBOS AND OTHER FASHIONABLE DORKS." 8/13/99 HC: MAGAZINE CAPTURES BUSH "ARROGANCE." 8/14/99 WP: BUSH AIDES SAY BAD TALK STUFF "OFF THE RECORD." 8/15/99 FIELDS: "CALLOUSNESS" DIDN'T SERVE GEORGE WELL. 8/16/99 WP: BUSH RIVALS USE TALK FOR AMUNITION. 8/17/99 WP: KRISTOL SAYS TUCKER "TELLS IT LIKE IT IS." 8/17/99 Bush Cocaine News DN: BUSH ONLY CANDIDATE WHO WILL NOT ANSWER COKE QUESTION. 8/5/99 WT: BUSH BRISTLES ABOUT COKE QUIZ. 8/6/99 WP: BUSH COCAINE SILENCE FEEDS MEDIA QUEST. 8/11/99 AC: EX-A.G.: COKE,NOT OFFICE ABUSE, WOULD TROUBLE VOTERS. 8/13/99 ANN: GOSSIPS SNIFF BUSH LINE ON COKE. 8/13/99 SFC ED: COKE USE NOT NECESSARILY RELEVANT. 8/13/99 REUTERS: BUSH REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT COCAINE ON CNN. 8/15/99 CNN: BUSH CALLS COCAINE RUMORS "RIDICULOUS." (+video) 8/15/99 DUNLEAVY: MINI-BUSH SHOULD TELL TRUTH ABOUT COKE. 8/16/99 RUSSELL: RUMOR IS "BUSH BORN WITH SILVER SPOON IN NOSE." 8/16/99 PEYSER: SAY YES OR NO OR PAY THROUGH THE NOSE. 8/18/99 MCNEELY: IF ANSWER WAS NO WE'D KNOW BY NOW. 8/18/99 DMN: BUSH TAKES RICHARDS' DRUG TACK. 8/18/99 Bush Funeral News BRYCE: TX. SUPREME CT. APPOINTEES COULD STALL SCANDAL SUBPOENA. 8/8/99 NEWSWEEK: BUSH AND THE FUNERAL HOME FLAP. 8/9/99 POLITEX: HOW TO TURN A "FLAP" INTO A CAMPAIGN CRISIS. 8/10-12/99 SALON: DID BUSH LIE UNDER OATH? 8/10/99 AC: TIMELINE OF THE CONTROVERSY. 8/11/99 AP: SPINNERS FOR BUSH, SCI DISCOUNT BUSH/WALTRIP MEETING. 8/12/99 IVINS: FUNERALGATE EXAMPLE OF "CORRUPTED POLITICAL SYSTEM." 8/12/99 AAS: FUNERAL COMISH DIRECTORS QUIT, COMPTROLLER CALLED IN. 8/17/99 DMN: GOV'S FUNERAL ROLE QUESTIONED. 8/18/99 AAS: COMPTROLLER, AT. GEN., BUSH ALL RECEIVED FUNERAL CASH. 8/18/99 LNN: BUSH AFFIDAVIT REFUTED. 8/18/99 for previous bush headlines, go to... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- TODAY'S BUSH WATCH POLITEX: CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM, GEORGE ! (PART TWO) 8/16-19/99 POLITEX: CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM, GEORGE ! 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