Oedipal Oval Office Frat Boy Meltdown? Junior "Cries Yesterday...Discusses Drinking Problem Today"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bush Gets Emotional Tuesday, Talks About Drinking On Wednesday

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/09/bush-gets-emotional-tuesd_n_95918.html

ABC has two stories on President Bush's polar behavior over the last two days. On Tuesday, the President had tears streaming down his face during a ceremony for a Navy Seal who had given his life in Iraq. Today, in a rare moment of honesty about his troubled past, he brought up the drinking problem he struggled with as a younger man.

Here's the report on Bush crying...

ABC's Jennifer Duck reports: Clearly choked up, and at times wiping away his own tears, President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously at the White House Tueday to Navy SEAL Petty Officer Michael Monsoor, who was killed in Iraq in September of 2006 when he fell on a grenade to save comrades during fighting in Ramadi.

Monsoor was the fourth service member to receive the nation's highest award for valor in the 6 1/2 years of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Bush awarded the medal in the White House's East Room Tuesday to Monsoor's parents.

Here's the report on Bush discussing his drinking problem...

ABC News' Jennifer Duck Reports: For the third time in recent months, President George W. Bush publicly reflected on his past drinking problem.

"I quit drinking -- and it wasn't because of a government program. It required a little more powerful force than a government program in my case," Bush said after signing the "Second Chance Act" -- a government program to aide recovered substance abusers -- into law.

The law is a prisoner re-entry program that helps convicted felons transition back into society and provides additional federal funding to reduce prison populations by creating job training programs, along with substance abuse and family stability support.

[rurallib]

1. I quit drinking and it didn't require no god

jesus effing krist, Bush. stand on your own two feet for once. And quit looking down your blotchy red nose at those who accept help to quit substances.
the guy just makes me wanna puke. what a prick.

[autorank]

2. Is "drinking" what he's talking about? Cry before the next war...save lives that way

God forbid we ever find out the truth about his 'rehab' program.

[truth2power]

3. i said this the last time this happened, and I'm gonna say it again...FAKE..

Unless the occasion is some horrible event where people are hysterically lamenting, the normal response is that one's eyes well up with tears and when they overflow people tend to dab at their eyes with their hand, or with a tissue if available. Start observing to see if this isn't the case. Tears are salty and they make your face itch.

Bush just stands there like he's too demented to even know he's crying. Or he wants to make sure everyone notices.

Psychopath. No wiring for the "empathy" thing. :eyes:

[Neshanic]

4. My theory. He's going Nixon in his last months in office. He knows he is a spectacular failure.

He is a bully, but he's not a strong man. He is weak and pathetic. He cannot deal with the fact that he will be known as the worst President in our history.

When he is out of office he will hit the bottle big, and that's when the shit will hit the fan.

[calimary]

5. Seconded.

I wonder if the ups and downs he's exhibiting are a signal that something deep down is starting to get backed up. Something evil. I would bet there's some sort of downward spiral after he's out of office - just the ego letdown of having no sycophants to fawn over him anymore.

[Ilsa]

7. As long as it happens when he is gone, I'll be grateful to any diety

for sparing us a final humiliation or even apocalyptic event. I don't think he'll be able to handle the loss of prestige and attention. I hope Laura has a safe house picked out.

[malaise]

6. Don't be fooled - what he did today

was give away more taxpayers money to his faith based fundie base - others would call it buying votes.

[monmouth]

8. This is a "repeat performance" of last year at this time, he did the same thing....n/t