On DUI:
"To Bush's advantage, the incident happened 24 years ago, and Bush has already acknowledged that up until his 40th birthday, he had a drinking problem. Having said that, drunk driving is a serious charge that Americans don't always tend to forgive, no matter how old. In addition, Bush was 30 years old at the time, hardly a child. It's also Bush's third arrest - according to his spokeswoman he was arrested twice in college as well. And Dick Cheney, Bush's VP runnning mate, has two DUI's on his record as well."
uspolitics.about.com
On Coke Rumors:
"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.)"
realchange.org
On Yale; he got in on a 'Daddy Pass':
"It's called a legacy preference, a long-standing policy used at many elite schools to allow the children of alumni to receive preferential treatment."
jsonline.com
The last is my own opinion. Clinton did seem to relish the role of statesman, a little too much it seems. Had a bit of the ole Nixon in him in that regard.
Now, do you have any *intelligent* retort to this? I thought not... |
