Bush smokes cigarettes away from the cameras. (Laura too)

[Alexander]

A friend of mine knows an aide who works in the White House, and both Shrub Jr. and Laura, he claims, puff down on cigs whenever there isn't news media around.

Laura, I thought, was obvious. (Kitty Dukakis also did, during her husband's '88 campaign)

But the revelation that Bush is a smoker kind of shocked me. Until I remembered that video of Bush drunk after he "quit drinking".

"Nice people. Boring people." Bush, looking like he's blasted at a 1990 party, talking shit about the bride and groom-to-be because they didn't drink or smoke.

Makes sense now...

(Note to Republicans: FIND THE LEAKER!!!)

[CatholicEdHead]

1. You should be able to smell it if you actually get near him

It is not easy to get rid of that smell.

[rzemanfl]

4. If I got close enough to Bush to smell him......aw, hell, why make

the mods delete this post....


I'd puke.

[Rockholm]

17. Sulphur smell and old smoke. Ugh.

[Raine]

61. Chimp loves to fart

on people so I wouldn't want to get near him enough to smell him. x( :puke:

[Catchawave]

48. My first thought too.....

[rzemanfl]

2. When I quit smoking my doctor said "anybody who still smokes

has shit for brains." Fits.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. Well Then Your Doctor's An Absolute Moron Who Deserves To Lose His License

He of all people should know the extreme difficulty some have in quitting. He should be the FIRST person to offer sympathy, assistance, education and support to smokers.

The fact he said such a thing, if you are in fact being truthful, just shows that your doctor is an absolutely ignorant jackass that doesn't deserve to be practicing medicine.

[rzemanfl]

13. Well, he did all that, and then said what he said. n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. Doesn't Matter. My Post Still Applies.

He's a total jackass that shouldn't be practicing general medicine in my opinion.

[rzemanfl]

29. Well, let me know when you get on the Medical Examing Board

and I'll start shopping around for a new doc. You a smoker?

[Maraya1969]

44. I understand what you are saying. I have been on and off cigarettes

for years. I have gotten to the point where it is easy for me to quit because I get so damn sick when I don't. But for some reason I end up going back after several weeks or months. People think that I am a social smoker since they see me smoke and then not smoke but the reality is I am a compulsive relapser. Things would be so much easier if I never picked up that first cigarette.

[kysrsoze]

72. Well, this really makes me want to quit even more. I don't want to be

associated with that idiot.

[TroglodyteScholar]

15. Good doctor, but...

...he would have done better to mention that when you were still smoking. ;)

I agree, no actual offense meant to smokers. I considered myself a shit-for-brains when I was smoking. One of the main reasons I quit was how stupid I felt for continuing to do it. I was handing like $2000/yr over to tobacco companies so my wife and I could slowly poison ourselves. I'd rather spend that $2000 on home improvement, CD's, groceries, ANYTHING but cigs.

[rzemanfl]

30. I was. n/t

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[lies and propaganda]

8. ROFLMAO!!!

tahts my kind of sense of humor.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. !

:spray: FABULOUS! :evilgrin:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Ummmmm, So?

[AlCzervik]

6. with the Mrs. you can tell just by looking at her mouth, tell tale lines

if i were her i'd be smoking too and doing a lot of drinking.

[MidwestTransplant]

26. Don't encourage her drinking...it doesn't mix well with the meds.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Seriously. Who gives a shit?

The man provides us with plenty of things to genuinely care about. Why should we care about a rumor that he smokes from a friend of mine knows a guy who say...? It's dumb.

[Alexander]

11. Because if it got out, it would help bring him down?

I don't give a nutty shit that Bush smokes. I used to have a two-pack-a-day habit myself.

But if the stuff WE care about doesn't bring him down, maybe we should try to find something that will.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. If you think it would help bring him down, then you're smoking more

than tobacco.

[Alexander]

20. Delete....dupe.

[Alexander]

22. You don't think there's a stigma against smoking in the USA?

A 10-second glance at the contents of GD would reveal that the stigma not only exists, but transcends party lines.

Non-smokers usually don't like smokers (except those of us who don't give a shit), and most of the USA is decidedly non-smoking.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Oh there's a huge and uncalled-for stigma. It's just not impeachable. nt

[Alexander]

32. If it causes his poll numbers to dip 1%, it's a victory. nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. Wow. HUGH!!!11!!!! victory there.

A friend of a friend telling you something that you post on DU is not going to affect his poll numbers. Perhaps if the MSM picked it up then his numbers would dip 1%, but most likely it'd still be due to some other dumb thing he's done, and even with that 1% dip, he'd still be our shitty president.

[Alexander]

38. Whatever gets the wingnuts to stay home or vote for someone else.

Part of the reason I posted this is because I was hoping someone else could corroborate it.

If it's found that George "I quit everything when I found Jesus" Bush really didn't change his lifestyle all that much (smoking/drinking/drug use/animal fornication/whatever), do you think his religious zealot supporters will buy that he found Jesus at all? Or vote for candidates he supports?

At 100% or 0%, he's still our shitty president. But I'd rather have him as close to 0% as possible going into the 2006 elections.

Like it or not, the approval ratings of presidents do alter downticket races. Does 1994 ring a bell?

[JanusAscending]

53. I do believe I heard that Bob Woodwards

new book mentions shrub puffing on a cigar, so cigars, cigarettes, what's the difference. I DO KNOW THIS....if you could prove it to a "fundie" it would deflate his "sainthood" in their eyes!! I know this from past, personal, experience. Smoking and drinking is sinful, and they crucify their own with "thou shalt nots"!!!

[pokercat999]

12. I mean REALLY he is a fucking WAR CRIMINAL, I hope he

smokes when they send the electricity through the chair!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Yeah, I'd be down with that.

I just fail to see why I should care if anyone smokes cigarettes, whether or not they're the president.

[never_get_over_it]

23. Now you made me laugh right out loud - and a great visual - eom

[Canuckistanian]

46. Now we know what to offer him

Just before the firing squad puts the blindfold on!

[Canuckistanian]

47. So, when he says, "I smoked 'em in Iraq"

He's not talking about terrorists?

[Pharaoh]

21. I think it's the hypocrisy

of their squeaky clean image they like to portray.

[AndyA]

41. So this photo I have of Jeff Gannon and Bush, laying on the bed naked

basking in the afterglow of you know what, both smoking a cig might be worth some money? :rofl:

[City Lights]

28. It's more proof that the image he portrays is fake.

I don't care if he smokes. I don't care if he burns. But if he's gonna smoke, he oughtta be man enough to admit it.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

31. Everyone in the public eye portrays a fake image to some degree.

Being a smoker is so inconsequential, especially in light of all the other fake images the president portrays.

[Pharaoh]

35. hence the hypocrisy,

[City Lights]

40. Most of his public image is fake.

His image makers must see smoking as a negative, otherwise they'd be letting him light up in public.

[Imagevision]

45. Bush is a 110% phoney - he hasn't an image to live up to, no-whereman

[Bluebear]

69. Word

[Judi Lynn]

63. There you go! He has tried to make fundies feel he identifies with them

and you'd better believe mainline fundies disapprove of smoking and drinking altogether. You've probably seen that swill they've written on the internet about his being such a fine Christian President, who was sent by God.....

They would absolutely flip out seeing a photo of him with a cig hanging outta his purty mouth, after all the hard work he and his handlers have gone to to create a pious image of him.

[City Lights]

67. Rarely is the question asked, what would Jesus smoke? eom

[eppur_se_muova]

70. LOL! I remember this pic ... "'Scuse me, I gotta swat this moran!"

[Turn CO Blue]

51. I guess because * is so holier-than-thou about physical fitness

yet he may be a closet drinker and now a smoker as well on top of that -- meaning that * is a santimonious, hypocritical, substance-abusing sack of shit... But you knew all that. I just felt like typing that about *.

[RamboLiberal]

57. My feeling exactly - the clown who brags on his physical fitness

and blows off working time to go biking. Now do the insiders have a scoop on the drinking? Damn I hope the truth comes out on this jerk's addictions.

[biggodhead]

9. “I smoke 40 a day” George Bush Tells Koreans

www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news171

[Turn CO Blue]

68. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[LisaM]

19. It's only relevant because Bush claims to have quit smoking

as he claims to have quit drinking. And because he pretends he has quit these things without any assistance. The myth of self-reliance.

[upi402]

43. well doesn't his imaginary friend help him?

O8) :silly:

[Cascadian]

56. He lies about everything else right? n/t

[la la]

27. he smokes to

cover the odor of his farts.

[Frank Cannon]

34. It's not the smoking that bothers me; it's the drinking

There's no way that guy's not three-sheets-to-the-wind at just about every minute of the day. He continually demonstrates the behavior of an active wet-brained alcoholic, and that's troublesome.

[Pharaoh]

36. It's not the ciggs or the booze

IT"S THE FACT THAT HE"S A COMPLETE FUCKING MORON!!!

[Frank Cannon]

66. Actually, I really don't think he's all that stupid

If you've seen videos of him prior to, say, 1995, he really comes off as being halfway coherent.

I just think he's constantly totally shitfaced drunk. And/or on some other drug. It makes him appear dumb.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

37. Good. Keep smokin, W. It's good for you!

[AndyA]

39. That explains Bush's nasty, stained, yellow, disgusting teeth.

Inhale deep, and hold George. Repeat often. It's healthy, gets lots of air into the lungs.

[The Count]

42. It's probably his most benign vice....

It also confirms he can't quit anything

[Catchawave]

49. Couldn't this be confirmed on his annual medical report ?

He wouldn't lie to his doctor too...would he....nevermind :silly:

[lumberjack_jeff]

50. How dare you pry into their private lives!!!

You can't out them! Only smokers have the moral right to do that.

:sarcasm:
;-)

[RB TexLa]

52. I couldn't care if he drinks doesn't drink smokes doesn't smoke

lies about it or tells the truth about either.

[Alexander]

58. I care A LOT if he drinks...

The man, by all accounts, was a full-blown alcoholic until he was 40.

The idea of a drunk with his finger on the button unnerves me. Particularly since the last pill-popping drunk to inhabit the White House was Richard Nixon.

[texanwitch]

54. This would explain his teeth, they look yellow.

I quess the white house must smell now, more then just the Bush smell.

[RebelOne]

64. Smokers can prevent their teeth from being yellow.

I smoke and I scrub my teeth with baking soda. It works for me.

[Cascadian]

55. Well Clinton enjoyed a cigar now and then.

Frankly. I do not care if the Chimp and Pickles is puffing away. I am sure we have had quite a few Presidents in our past that smoked. Ford with his pipe, Kennedy and his cigars, FDR and his cigarettes. I also think Johnson smoked a pack or two a day. It would be wonderful to see a non-smoker President in the future though. It would set a better example but we have more pressing issues to deal with than Bush's other bad habits.


John

[Alexander]

59. YOU don't care (and I don't either) but the fundies might.

After all, Jesus didn't smoke, and wasn't he Our Dear Leader's favorite* philosopher?

*meaning the only person he could name

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

60. In 2001 one of the first things * did was eliminate WH no-smoking rule

Can't find a link (it happened as soon has he moved in), but I did find this:

The President’s Recommendations for Avoiding Risky Behaviors

The President’s Challenge:

Healthy choices are about making smart decisions in your everyday life—from avoiding tobacco and illegal drugs, to moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages if you drink, to using safety belts and bike helmets. Every little bit of effort counts:

< snip >

If you smoke, quit. If you don’t smoke, don’t start. After just one day without cigarettes, the risk for heart attack decreases. Over the next several months, coughing, sinus congestion, and fatigue decrease. One year after quitting, excess risk for heart disease is reduced by half; risk for stroke is reduced after five years of not smoking. Ten years after quitting, the lung cancer death rate is about half that of a smoker; 15 years after quitting, an ex-smoker’s risk for heart disease is about the same as that of a nonsmoker.

If you are a parent, set a good example and quit smoking before your children start. If you continue to smoke, avoid smoking inside or around your children. Each year an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer and up to 300,000 children suffer from respiratory tract infections because of exposure to secondhand smoke. Evidence also indicates that exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart disease.

[jmowreader]

62. This could be fun...

You know that no prison in the United States allows its inmates to either drink or smoke, right?

And you also know that Bush is probably going to be in one sometime in the next five years.

For extra entertainment...he's gone from being the most powerful man in the world to being in General Population...and he can't have either a drink or a smoke? They'll have to slap him in Solitary so the rest of the inmates can get some sleep.

[Bluebear]

65. Is this why he is so goddamn crotchety all the time?

That "I can't WAIT to get out of here" itch I remember from my smoking days?

[Cleita]

71. When the staff who serves their booze and drugs to them

decides to talk, I will be really happy. If we were destined to get baby boomer druggies in the White House, why couldn't we get at least those with a conscience and ideals from the sixties, like "war is bad for babies and other living things"?

[Imagevision]

73. Laura Bush was known "as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana

While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura Bush was known "as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana."
http://jackpinesavage.blogspot.com/2004/09/mis-education-of-laura-bush.html

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/deep_2004-09-23.cfm