Bush's DUI-Will It Backfire?

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From the Washington Times:

Tom Connolly, a Portland lawyer and Democratic activist who attended the Democratic National Convention, confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that he was the source of the report.

Connolly said someone who was in Biddeford District Court when Bush's 1976 case came up was alarmed that it had never been reported and alerted ``a public figure'' about the case. That person passed the word to Connolly, he said, though he would not name the public figure.

Connolly, who ran unsuccessfully for governor two years ago, said he had been talking about the case at the courthouse Thursday. He said he had confirmed Bush's arrest by obtaining a copy of the court docket — which he gave to a local television reporter.


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So it's getting even more tangled...
 
At least beer is legal. Smoking dope is not. Even if you don't inhale. Unless you live in a state where it is ok as a medical necessity.

Maybe loosing one's common sense is considered a medical necessity. :rolleyes:
 
Definately seems like a dirty trick. Breaking on the last "real" news day of the week, and just a few days before the election are a little to much to chalk up to coincidence.
 
If there is ONE thing I learned from reading Tom Clancy novels, it is this: there is NO SUCH THING as a co-incidence. It's the watchword with the CIA and our military--it is my watchword now--and it has cleared up a lot of formerly mysterious happenings. By the way, it's also a good way to look at life in general, particularly if you go to church regularly.

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Robert R,
Smoking pot may be illegal but both are equally immoral. Since when did someone have the right to dictate to me my morals? I don't defend the President, I only want people to see that beer isn't "better" than pot just because a legislature told them so. Pot is illegal for one purpose, because in the early 30's only "Mexicans" smoked pot. Prohibition failed because it is a white mans drug. I say it should all be decriminalized. It isn't like keeping illegal has stopped its use, but it has eroded our liberties.
If legal I still wouldn't use pot (unless I had cancer or something requiring its proven medical usefulness). I would still preach to my son moderation as a lifestyle, and display that same moderation in my own. I don't advocate drug usage, but I also don't advocate bad law.
How about each of us concern ourselves with ourselves, and quit worrying about what "they" do? This is why we're losing RKBAs, and why we're no longer as free as our grandparents were. Malum Prohibitum doesn't work, never has, never will. A look at Rome in her decline will show such striking resemblence to our own Republic, (explosion of morality laws) that you may see some wisdom in decriminalizing non-criminal behavior that doesn't harm others.

"Once we suffered from crime, we now suffer from laws"--Tacitus
 
KJM,

Just trying to contrast the two. One guy used a "legal" drug and is receiving media/social criticism. The other guy used an "illegal" drug and because he did not inhale we get - oh, its ok, who did'nt do it during the 60's and 70's.

Kind of like the Clarence Thomas vs Pres. Clinton affairs. One gets beat up pretty bad over it and the other has media backing saying it is bipartisan smear tactics.

I would like to see equal chastisement. In the presidents case, being a high level public figure, does nothing for the youth and impressionable when he gets away with doing something wrong while the "bad republican" get a whipping for his infractions.

And we wonder why the young have a problem discerning right from wrong. The RKBA and all other rights Americans have can only be salvaged when each generation know's the difference.
 
What I find interesting is that the Clintons had access to all those FBI files on all those Republicans, and this is the best anyone can come up with? The FBI must not have had very much dirt on George W.!
 
Edwin Edwards, the ex-governor of Louisiana, used to boast that the only way he could lose an election was if he got caught in bed with either a live boy or a dead girl!
Comparatively speaking, this is nothing. Anyone who isn't already brain dead will see it for what it is, a desperate, last minute political smear from a losing campaign.
The only people who can influenced by this are already voting for the goron.
 
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