If you wikipedia ‘bush alcohol’ it will take you to the George W. Bush Substance Abuse Controversy entry, where Bush is quoted as saying he doesn’t think he was an alcoholic, but couldn’t remember a day that he hadn’t had a drink since high school. So basically, he admitted having alcohol every day of his life for more than 20 years. That makes him an alcoholic, and a drug addict.

If you continue, it also documents his drunk driving and how he facilitated underage drinking.

Levi, first, the quality of your estimations are making most of the people here laugh.

I know. I don’t expect anything else of you, really.

You denigrate critics of Obama for speculation, but the criticisms you offer of conservatives baseless, fuzzy headed fantasies at best. That seems to be the way you roll.

I’m just calling it how I see it, and how I see it, you people owe all of your electoral success to wedge issues like gay marriage and baseless suggestions like John Kerry shot himself to get his Purple Hearts. That was Bush’s strategy, we’re in the age of Karl Rove politics, that’s what’s given you your electoral success.

With the assist from Diebold, of course.

Levi – I know Bush said he drank too much when he was younger, but I don’t recall him saying he was addicted to alcohol. Do you have a link to support your statement or does anyone else?

“He is different, in my estimation, than other politicians.”

Levi, first, the quality of your estimations are making most of the people here laugh. You denigrate critics of Obama for speculation, but the criticisms you offer of conservatives baseless, fuzzy headed fantasies at best. That seems to be the way you roll.

I agree that Obama is different because as others have pointed out he has no experience or track record. That seems to be a plus in your book because he is not a Washington insider. Go figure.

Can’t you feel it?

“Look at what Barry is doing!”
“Nevermind that, look at what Bush did!”
“But Bush isn’t running for President.”
“But he’s a convenient distraction!”

How does what Bush did in 1994 or whatever have anything to do with what Barry has done continuously (by his own admission) since 1986?

Uh huh. This from a guy who called Bush “a drug addict.” You have no proof of THAT. Doctor, heal thyself.

Alcohol is a drug, a drug that Bush was addicted to, by his own admission. So yeah, you know what the word ‘proof’ means?

Oh, noooooo. Not a hint.

Nope, and after that big long post, still not a hint. You might notice you still can’t reference anything that Barack has said or done that could reasonably construed as being even a little bit racist. It’s all what Wright says, or what his wife says. And I think with regard to the ‘racist’ label, we should give Obama the benefit of the doubt until, you know, he actually says or does something that is obviously racist. Obama hasn’t. Again, not even a hint, from him, the man himself, the only one he’s absolutely responsible for.

Look, judging whether or not someone is a racist is easy. I’ve known black racists and white racists, as I’m sure all of you have, and you can see them coming a mile away. Obama just doesn’t fit the mold. Again, there’s no amount of misinterpretation you could do to any of his statements or actions that even remotely suggest he thinks the way Wright does. And I’d like to reiterate, he is half white. So he hates 50% of his heritage, okay yeah that makes perfect sense!

Still hintless.

Especially the part when I challenge you to display Obama’s track record. Couldn’t find anything either, huh?

I love his track record. He did honest, selfless work in Chicago until he became a legislator, where he voted exactly the way I’d want him to vote. Carried on in the U.S. Senate, he even authored more bills than Hillary did, and got more of his passed.

I know where this goes usually, that Obama’s inexperienced and he can’t point to some massive accomplishment, but that’s not exactly how the legislative process works. Nobody can get very much accomplished after two years of being a Senator, it’s the nature of our government. The bottom line is that there is enough of a record there for Obama to demonstrate where he wants to take the country, and I’m all for it.

What’s worse than Bush? IMHO, what could happen if another closet pacifist is elected.

And Al Gore and John Kerry were closet pacifists? Meh, you have your opinion, I have mine. More people around the world and around the country agree with mine, of course, which is reassuring, if you’re curious what that feels like. But hey, you can always hope for that Truman-style redemption Bush seems so pre-occupied with!