Isn't it time for Bush to address the rumors of his cocaine usage? Why isn't the press asking him about that? He's been given such a free ride.
Personally, I don't care what people do with their own bodies. What bugs me is sanctimonious moralizers who put other people in jail for things that they did when they were "young and irreponsible."
Here another little insight into the degree to which the self-proclaimed Mr. Clean, I'm a Uniter not a Divider, Great Leader has been lying and covering up his past:
CHANGED DRIVER’S LICENSE AT ISSUE
Sources told MSNBC.com’s Jeannette Walls that Bush associates had
been worried for several years about his arrest record and had hoped that
because it was in Maine, and not Texas, it wouldn’t surface.
The sources said Bush
took one step to keep it under
wraps in March 1995, when
his driver’s license number was
changed. Walls first reported
this in August 1999 in The
Scoop, an MSNBC.com
column. At the time, the
sources told Walls that Bush
got his license number changed
because he was worried about
an arrest record surfacing.
“He has an arrest record that has to do with drinking,” a source said
then. “He’s worried it will come out, but his handlers keep assuring him it
won’t.”
The allegation was not disclosed by MSNBC.com at the time because
the arrest could not be confirmed.
Also in August 1999, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles told
MSNBC.com that changing one’s driver’s license number was “highly
unusual” and that it is done only when the holder of the license can prove
that someone is using the license number for illegal activities.
Repeated calls to Bush’s camp back at the time were unanswered,
until a spokeswoman for Bush said the motor vehicle agency would have
an additional comment. An agency spokesman then called MSNBC and
said Bush’s license number was changed for “security measures.” He
declined to comment further.
In light of Bush’s admission of his arrest, a second source said Friday:
“Bush’s people didn’t want to comment [in August 1999] because they
didn’t want to be on the record lying or misleading anyone about this.”
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“A lot of people had heard about [Bush’s arrest record], but they were
looking for documents or some sort of evidence in Texas,” the second
source said. Bush’s camp “was keeping their fingers crossed that nothing
would come out because the record was in Maine and Bush’s license
number had been changed.”
Neither of Walls’ sources is connected to Gore’s campaign or to the
Democratic Party. |
