The President, in his Party Boy days, smoked weed.

I'm going to need to be alone for a while.

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1 No WAY! Who KNEW? Karl ROVE must have MADE him do it! WATEVER shall we do?

Posted by: RW at February 22, 2005 06:19 PM (GGtnr)

2 He never inhaled. I bet it was more like a kid trying a cigarette. Couple puffs, then never again.

Posted by: William Teach at February 22, 2005 07:22 PM (HxpPK)

3 Teach, George aint that sort of fellow. No obfuscating for him. He smoked, he inhaled, he got the munchies. Now he doesn't, and that makes all the difference. I can see a day when the President does smoke. Right about the time the Surgeon General releases a report saying that pot smoking causes cancer. Pot smoking: Gives you cancer, but you don't care.

Posted by: Alan Kellogg at February 23, 2005 06:54 AM (gy/JT)

4 That's it for me. No way I'm voting for him in '08.

Posted by: Kingslasher at February 24, 2005 09:53 AM (SOfML)

5 Back in the Day, everybody smoked - well a few dweebs didn't, so you can console yourself, your parents were never that cool.... Getting caught with smoke, was like getting a traffic ticket, several cities had basically decriminalized pot, and more were on the way. But the government - not learning the lesson from the 1920's prohibition - decided prohibition was the way to go, and Nancy Reagan said, "Just Say No," and we got the War On Drugs - fantastic success it has been! If look up some brand names, like Acapulco Gold, and Mexican Red, you will find that they are held - but not used - by various tobacco companies. They were getting ready for the day we realize "prohibition today, prohibition forever" probably won't work any better this time around. And you really shouldn't be shocked, GW has always said that when he was ypung and irresponsible, he was young and irresponsible.

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. . . takes on the prospect of a Hillary candidacy in '08. Writing in Dean's World, he maintains that she won't run.

I think she will.

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CalTechGirl is making book on the true identity of Deep Throat, which we are apparently about to find out.

I love a good mystery, and CTG has links to some of the juiciest speculation.

Unfortunately, we have the "unfair advantage" of knowing that one of the reasons we're about to find out is that DT is very ill right now, so that gives us another angle to look at. Almost ruins the puzzle. Almost.

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Can't we handle this in a different way? In this day and age, it seems profoundly unwise to plan an event that places, in one building:

The President of the United States;
His entire cabinet;
The Vice President, and the Speaker of the House.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff;
The entire Supreme Court
and both chambers of the legislature.

All it would take would be one very successful strike, and AQ could knock out our government more effectively than they planned to do on 9/11.

There would be no one left to rebuild the rest: we'd have to elect new everything from scratch. It makes no sense. It's unwise.

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John Kerry didn't seem to be in the greatest mood. Wonder why.

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. . . really hates this shit. I think that to him the public part of his job is the most burdensome. He's like a mirror-image of the average VP: he is an actual advisor and helper to the President, but he dispises the ceremonial aspect of his job.

He's not just the classic VP who sits around and waits for the President to die.

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. . . that the boy has learned to speak in public. He kept that smirk on a short leash, and almost never stumbled over his words.

And he dug it when people yelled "no" while he made assertions about Social Security; he couldn't hide that. He likes conflict. He enjoys this process because he's pretty sure he's going to win the fight.

For an illiterate business major, he has big brass balls; they've got to clank when he walks.

And if you have any sympathy for his goals, it's hard not to like him.

Okay. I'm going to forgive the O'Shaughnessy incident. Let's never speak of it again.

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I mean, this is what you get when you vote a business major in as President of the United States. Mangled references from famous poems.

I'm all better now, really.

Where the fuck, by the way, were his speechwriters? Did none of them major in English?

Where were the fact-checkers? Drunk again?

Anyone in the West Wing have a bookcase in their office?

I'll be fine, though, really.

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Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man, with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

—Arthur O'Shaughnessy
(who was not Franklin Roosevelt at any time)

I guess it's too late to take my vote back, huh?

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