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Lucern · 03-12-2005, 01:53 AM

Oops. I didn't think anyone would take that seriously lol. I had assumed everyone had heard enough about Bush and coke enough to know it's not really substantiated, yet persistent.

To be entirely sure that he used coke you'd have to take any of a number of questionable sources as credible. To be entirely sure that he never touched the stuff you'd have to ignore several sources of allegations from several points in time that keep resurfacing.

Best I can tell (particularly from leaked tapes - see the first link below), he probably at least tried pot and coke, and it was probably in or around 1972, when records are hazy (if the use of that word is not too inappropriate lol). All I can know beyond any doubt is that if you attend a college halloween party with a Bush mask and a shirt with "Coke Head" written on it, you'll get quite a few laughs.

And in any case, it doesn't matter much to me. Politics of personal destruction are shameful, in my opinion - too often the main event rather than the sideline show they should be. While I'd rather know about someone's past than remain ignorant, it inevitably comes out from sources with their own agenda's coloration on the matter. In this case, I knew enough about his politics to form an opinion last November. Would it change anything if you could prove it?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/s...=516740&page=1

http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id478/pg1/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=1057331

[ 03-12-2005, 01:56 AM: Message edited by: Lucern ]

03-12-2005, 01:53 AM	#20
Lucern Quintesson Join Date: August 28, 2004 Location: the middle of Michigan Age: 43 Posts: 1,011	Oops. I didn't think anyone would take that seriously lol. I had assumed everyone had heard enough about Bush and coke enough to know it's not really substantiated, yet persistent. To be entirely sure that he used coke you'd have to take any of a number of questionable sources as credible. To be entirely sure that he never touched the stuff you'd have to ignore several sources of allegations from several points in time that keep resurfacing. Best I can tell (particularly from leaked tapes - see the first link below), he probably at least tried pot and coke, and it was probably in or around 1972, when records are hazy (if the use of that word is not too inappropriate lol). All I can know beyond any doubt is that if you attend a college halloween party with a Bush mask and a shirt with "Coke Head" written on it, you'll get quite a few laughs. And in any case, it doesn't matter much to me. Politics of personal destruction are shameful, in my opinion - too often the main event rather than the sideline show they should be. While I'd rather know about someone's past than remain ignorant, it inevitably comes out from sources with their own agenda's coloration on the matter. In this case, I knew enough about his politics to form an opinion last November. Would it change anything if you could prove it? http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/s...=516740&page=1 http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id478/pg1/ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=1057331 [ 03-12-2005, 01:56 AM: Message edited by: Lucern ]