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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (58665)	11/4/2000 12:24:23 AM
From: Futurist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

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.” Advertisement “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.