George Bush: Book Begins With Decision To Quit Drinking

[Ed Barrow]

Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that his upcoming book begins with an anecdote about his wife persuading him to give up drinking by pushing him to decide whether he preferred booze to fatherhood. Bush said Decision Points, due for release in November, opens with the scene and him questioning whether he loved booze more than his wife, Laura. He said he realized he had an addictive personality and quit drinking cold turkey. That act set him on the path to the presidency, Bush said in his address to a wind energy convention in downtown Dallas.

Bush said the book is less autobiography and more an analysis of key decisions in his life, both before and after he was elected president. Topics will include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the troop surge in Iraq, his responses to terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina and the financial meltdown. He said he hopes the book will be a tool for historians evaluating his presidency.

"I don't think you can come to a definitive conclusion about a presidency until the passage of time," Bush said. "I want to put you in my position."



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[Jamastiene]

1. In other words, he needs more time to learn how to write.

If the book begins with his decision to quit drinking, that means he hasn't started writing it yet.

[EFerrari]

7. Maybe it's more of a flyer than a book.

lol

[ixion]

2. too bad for us he didn't decide to keep drinking

the world would have been a better for it, in my opinion.

[UTUSN]

3. So... that's when he discovered the intoxication properties of PRETZELS?!1 n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

14. Lol!

[madokie]

4. He's a lying mo'fo

He and pickles are trying the old say it enough times and maybe it'll become true trick but it won't work with me. I drank for a long time and I can spot a drinking person from a mile away. As they say it takes one to know one. It's been 3 years since I quit but i can still see a drinking person as soon as one comes within eyesight. Whether or not one wants to believe it or not, drinkers stand out, just as I'm sure us stoners do too

[Motown_Johnny]

5. cherry picking to misinform.... history repeats itself.

seems appropriate.

[Robeson]

Bush was a drunk throughout his presidency.

[Bluebear]

6. I wonder if it describes how he didn't go through any rehab & is a dry-drunk?

Probably not.

[dsc]

9. I am going to say that you don't necessarily have to go to rehab

to be sober, but he should be working a program of some sort.

[Bluebear]

10. Thank you, exactly what I meant.

AA, something besides Billy Graham "praying" with him once over the phone and considering him cured.

[johnnie]

8. Opening chapter...

"Laura asked me "what do you want more, to drink booze or write this book?".

[Motown_Johnny]

11. as if he actually did the writting....

[Luminous Animal]

15. " I was born a poor boy in Texas"

[spanone]

12. it'll be 2 bucks at big lots in days

[gmoney]

13. saves having to lie about his days in the TANG and skipping out to work for dad