Foley: "I'm an alcoholic"

[Philosoraptor]

read on cspan, drudge is the source

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Is that why he claims he's going into rehab?

Anyone else would be going to jail instead.

[Delphinus]

4. Yep.

I happened to have on the early local news, just to see what the weather outlook was, and it segued into the today show. I heard the headlines that alcohol was a factor and just screamed at the tv. My dog came running to see what was the matter - and I was reminded, once more, why I don't watch MSM.

[me b zola]

48. And be placed on a sexual predator registery...for life

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. From where I am sitting, that is the least of his problems...

and shame on him for using it to garner pity for his depravity.

[calico1]

3. Apparently, being an alcoholic

makes you a sexual predator.:eyes:

[Skidmore]

5. Yeah, that'll take the heat off alright.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

6. Nice excuse!

Disgusting

[Auggie]

7. Right -- that's suppose to make it okay.

[TAPat]

8. Worked for Mel Gibson... nt

[Auggie]

9. What B.S.

If he's supposedly drunk, how is it that his e-mails are so coherent?

[rodeodance]

10. I off the cuff said yesterday he would be going into "treatment" but did

not what for.


It was just a gut felling.

[terrya]

11. Robert Bauman used this one.

In the 80's, then Congressman Robert Bauman (R-Md), right wing homophobe, was discovered to be frequenting gay bars and was arrested for soliciting a minor. He, also, upon the announcement of his arrest, immediately announced that he, also, was an alcoholic.

I can't say for sure whether either one of them were or are alcoholics.

My question is: if they are, why didn't they try to get treatment for it before they were in trouble?

[CTyankee]

33. Bauman joke at the time

was that he was born in Maryland but reared in D.C.

I was in Washington at the time and that joke made the rounds.

[rodeodance]

12. Will he emerge before or after the election?

[Hubert Flottz]

13. The Rush defense!

I drink and I'm not a child abuser and a pervert.

[opihimoimoi]

23. Classic Pub Excuse pre 9/06...Too Little ..One PAGE TOO LATE

The guy is a Sleazy PUB PERVERT caught hitting on 16 year old kids...

Then ...his boss and some colleagues try to hide his Problem for a year and beyond...SICK....

[Hubert Flottz]

30. Dahmer, Gacy and Bundy were heavy drinkers too...

Bundy was a repub fund raiser. The "I was drunk" excuse didn't get those guys out of jail.

People who drive drunk and hurt other people GO TO JAIL! Hell if Foley's excuse was a good one, we could all go drink a couple of beers and go rob a bank and get off easy, because we'd been drinking.

[opihimoimoi]

50. I guess thats all the dude got.......a lame excuse..The story of his life?

Under Pub Rule

America is going down the tubes....

look all around us...

School shootings, stupid politicians, lolo presidents, kidnappings, murder, drugs, drunkenness, cross walking, greed, graft, bribery, extortion, blk mailings, burglaries, car thefts, rustling, lawyering, Slothness, etc etc....

We don't deserve to be on this Planet....Humanity is a Cancer

[sendero]

14. Note to Foley..

... alcoholics are as responsible for their actions as anyone else. Good luck with that.

[ClintonTyree]

15. The only people that will mean anything to..........

are the people who are already Foley apologists. It's bullshit and has no bearing on his sexual proclivities whatsoever.

[eShirl]

16. "The Devil Made Me Do It! (via alcohol)"

[lisa58]

17. Just like Bob Ney...

...it makes sense that you would have to be wasted all the time to rubber-stamp this administration and live with yourself.

[Ecumenist]

18. "...AND a hypocritical pervert.....

I'm a child molester too!! AND did I mention that I'm twisted too? BTW, didja know I'm pitiful excuse for a human being and a PATHETIC liar too? Didja, Huh? DIDJA??"

[bigscott]

21. He gives us alcoholics

a bad name - I have been clean and sober for 12 years - but i drank with the best of them. And NEVER did I ever use the fact that I was an active alcoholic to try to explain my actions. He is a LYING PEDOPHILE who might have a drinking problem (and I dont buy that for a second either)

[Ecumenist]

22. Yes, indeed, BigScott...

Welcome to DU, BTW...

[bigscott]

25. thanks Ecumenist

nt

[Philosoraptor]

28. good point

booze is no excuse

[Drops_not_Dope]

19. ...AND a pedophile

[Carni]

20. Oh Pullleeeeezzz--how insulting to alcoholics everywhere eom

[femmedem]

24. And are all the Repubs who covered for him alcoholics, too?n/t

[Philosoraptor]

26. HIC! good question.. HIC!

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. So are we supposed to feel sorry for him now?

Funny, I feel sorry for the kid. Foley can go straight to rehab - and then to hell.

[VeggieTart]

29. Oh, for fuck's sake n/t

[neilepi]

31. Maybe he'll learn a new version...

..of the Serenity prayer.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the boys I cannot chase, the Courage to not chase the boys I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

<http://www.CafePress.com/heavenlybody>

<http://www.CafePress.com/ralley>

[patricia92243]

32. whew! So glad to hear that. Everything is ok now!! sarcasm

:sarcasm:

[sam sarrha]

34. alcoholic. the F'r gives PCP freeks a bad name..so lets find all the other

alcoholics in the government and make them resign too.. if alcohol is the source of pedifelia or taking money from Abramof in the government, :rant:

[Tesla]

35. we wouldn't have a government if we took out the alcoholics

all the way to the top!

That's probably why they are using the "Drunk card", it always worked for Chimpy with Babs.

[zeemike]

36. He just needs a little rehab that's all

And while he is in rehab Pat Robertson or Jerry Faldwell can come down there and save him. He can be born again and then he will be the hero of the fundies standing in there midst and crying "I have sinned my lord forgive me" and all will be well,

[Philosoraptor]

37. this is likely to happen exactly this way

the lord will forgive even the lowliest sinner

[GeorgeGist]

38. Was that before...

or after he became a pedophile?

[Philosoraptor]

39. During

[soothsayer]

40. "When I drink I get woozy, stagger a little, and write dirty emails

to children. I think it's the booze."

[Philosoraptor]

42. Jerk Daniels

St. Paulie boy

[Hubert Flottz]

49. It took a lot of drinks to get that taste out of his mouth?

I guess that's what he means!

He shouldn't have swallowed.................................all that booze!

[Atman]

41. He's a page-o-holic

And Hastert and the GOP are his enablers.

[Binka]

44. Zing!

These delusional narcissistic fucks just don't ever STOP. A stake hasn't to be driven in the cyborg pump in their chests.

[KittyWampus]

43. So he's an alcholic pedophile. He can go into recovery for alcholism

for the pedophilia... that will be even harder to deal with, I'd imagine. A lot of unhealthy patterns to unlearn.

[opihimoimoi]

51. There is no known cure ...period....

Its a sickness the docs don't quite understand...

For some reason, mostly white and mostly Pubs....WTF?

[LouisianaLiberal]

45. Never underestimate the political healing power

of cheap grace. "I have sinned, Lord." "OK, since you are penitent and ask for God's forgiveness we forgive you. Come, let us embrace you now that you are healed by God's grace..."

I'm waiting for this part of the typical Repug argument to show itself.

[hyphenate]

46. GREAT excuse!

Yet another lying lie from a lying liar!! :D

[Lochloosa]

47. "I'm Saved"

Next?

[malaise]

52. And he discovers this after he is

caught in a sickening scandal.:puke:

[WI_DEM]

53. No, he sounds like a pedophile who is using alcoholism to try and save

his ass.

[warrens]

54. Bullshit

It just gives him a place to hide for 30 days or so, along with a convenient excuse.