Cokehead & Alcoholic GWB on instant gratification, irresponsible behavior

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040717.html

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day in America, parents struggle to raise their children in a culture that too often glorifies instant gratification and irresponsible behavior. During this time of great change in our Nation, government must stand with families to help them raise healthy, responsible children.

Studies tell us that children raised in a household with married parents are far less likely to live in poverty, fail at school, or have behavioral problems. Fortunately, after a decades-long downward trend, the percentage of children living with married parents has remained steady since 1995. And through our proposed Healthy Marriages Initiative, my Administration is committed to ensuring that more of our children grow up in a stable home with a married mother and father.

We are headed in the right direction. But we still have work to do, so my Administration is acting to encourage teens to make healthy choices. Although teen drug use has decreased, we can and must do more. We know that random drug testing in schools is effective, and it allows us to identify kids who need help. In my most recent budget, I proposed spending an additional $23 million for school drug testing. And although teen birth rates have declined, about 3 million of our teenagers contract sexually transmitted diseases each year. So we've requested a doubling of federal funding for abstinence-only education programs. We have also requested $25 million for our Character Education Initiative. This program will encourage schools to develop curricula that promote good character and help children develop a sense of responsibility to their community. Today, I urge the Congress to act on all these important initiatives.

When parents, schools, and government work together, we can counter the negative influences in today's culture and send the right messages to our children. As yesterday's report shows, we are making progress in changing the culture of America from one that said, "if it feels good, do it; and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else," to a culture in which each of us understands we are responsible for the decisions we make in life. The decisions our children make now will affect their health and character for the rest of their lives. And when they make the right choices, they are preparing themselves to realize the bright future our Nation offers each of them.

[DarkPhenyx]

1. The only thing I can think of...

...is the only thing I usually think of when I hear him speak.

What a jackass!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Now let's see...

according to Bush, children from single parent households wind up drunks and on drugs like coke, irresponsible, etc. etc.

I'm a contemporary of Bush. I have never done drugs. I do not drink, don't smoke, have held responsible jobs since I was 20. I worked hard to win a scholarship to my local university, from which I graduated with high honors. My brother started work at 9, was a career Army officer, and now works as the computer expert for a local community college. No arrests, no drugs, though he does drink an occasional beer.

We were raised by a single parent.

Now let's look at GW Bush. He came from a 'stable' family, was given his place at Yale, has an arrest record, rumored to be a drug abuser, and admits to having a problem with alcohol. He ran several companies into the ground and has done his best to ruin this country.

Somehow this thing about people having to get married so that their kids will turn out right doesn't sound like a valid argument to me.

[merh]

4. Now that you put it that way ...

got to agree with you!

* is an idiot.

[cliss]

9. I agree that Bush uses very simplistic examples.

I think statistics probably do agree with him. I believe that kids of divorce have a tougher time in school. Also, there are the enormous financial problems that single parents have to deal with, being the sole supporter. It's tought to do everything - be the breadwinner, cook dinner, help the kids with homework, etc etc.

You're right. If anyone was given a chance to succeed, it's Bush. And yet, with all that "help", I consider him to be a huge failure. He's a failure as a leader, and he's a failure as a human being.

I think this has more to do with family values, rather than the structure of the family, which is what Bush is referring to here. Barbara Bush is an arrogant, uncaring and apparently abusive mother.

Those are the kinds of things you can't legislate. And they have more to do with drug addiction and unhappiness than the framework of marriage.

That's awesome, by the way, that you and your brother have done so well. Looks like money doesn't buy everything does it George?

[bossfish]

3. This is rich, coming from the Chimperor...

..and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else," to a culture in which each of us understands we are responsible for the decisions we make in life.

Unless you get "bad intelligence", I guess.

[noiretextatique]

5. hmm...what about his children?

his "youthful indesicretions" as a drunk and cokehead for most of their life made laura a single parent. that explains it :eyes:

[MichiganVote]

6. Even if the following were true

"Fortunately, after a decades-long downward trend, the percentage of children living with married parents has remained steady since 1995.".........which it is not, doesn't this mean that positive changes began and continued during a, yikes!, democratic administration?

Way to go George, as usual you're ahead of the rest of us.

God speaks indeed!

[classof56]

7. And what bright future would that be?

The one where the best job our kids can hope for is "manufacturing" burgers and fries at a fast food place? Where the environment is totally destroyed because of Bushie's policies? Where they will be drafted and sent off to fight in one of his stupid wars, then receive no veterans' benefits? Where more than likely they will have no health benefits, no matter what?

The list goes on. So glad that if our kids learn to take responsibility for their own actions, abstain from sex, say no to drugs and pass all those NCLB tests, they'll be guaranteed such a "bright future".

Geez....!

[neebob]

8. Second sentence, fourth paragraph

"We're changing he culture," sez he. Since when does he go around saying that in public? Damn - just when I think he can't get any scarier or more despicable or be a bigger buffoon.

[Beloved Citizen]

10. The Core Of Shrub's Philosophical Beliefs

If it feels good, do it.

[LittleApple81]

11. AAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH! I agree it simplifies life if a COMPATIBLE,

RESPONSIBLE, LOVING couple with a decent income. But single responsible, loving parents with a decent income CAN AND DO AN EXCELLENT JOB.

[LittleApple81]

13. And, I forgot. When SANTORUM was spewing VENOM against gay marriage,

He mentioned that countries that approved gay marriage (specifically mentioning Sweeden) had a correlated decline in the welfare of children...at least that is what he implied because more children were born out of wedlock.
First, the causal relationship is not there.

Second, US leads industrialized world in child poverty rates
here, is the thread on this:

And Sweden is the one of the least poverty. Swede children always rank very high in education, wellness, etc. etc.

THESE REPUGS ARE AMAZING.

[greenbriar]

12. the fucker won't fund his precious NCLB

but wants to put drug testing...


let him come drug test my 6 classes of 40 and I will let him have the class for the whole day.

they would eat him alive.

He would be laying in the fetal position on the floor crying for protection

[AnnInLa]

14. Some very scary buzz-phrases in here....religious right influence

"Healthy Marriage Initiative.... blah, blah.... stable mother and father." Read, marriage is between a man and woman only. Read mothers should feel guilty if divorce is the only option of preserving their sanity.

"Random drug-testing in schools"...read, we will invade the privacy of all school age children. When we finish invading their privacy, we will invade the privacy of all teachers, gov't workers, and all other groups that we choose.

"Teen birth rates have declined...3 million teens contract STD's each year...federal funding for abstinence-only programs" Why can't they see that abstinence programs ALONG with programs teaching proper use of condoms and other safe-sex practices is the only effective way to educate our teens?

"Character Education Initiative....promote good character." What in the hell is "good character?" I'll tell you....being a good Republican is having good character...being a potential Stepford wife is good character....never having sex unless one is in a heterosexual legal marriage is good character...being a church-going (proper church of course) hypocrite is good character.

God, I wish I had 5 billion to donate to the ACLU...this is a bunch of religious right wing crap under the guise of American Values.

[johnfunk]

15. Some good links on alcoholically damaged Bush Boy:

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, just this week: "Is Bush’s past now present?"

APJ's classic article: "Dry Drunk" -- and the follow-up, "Busch Country -- Bottoms Up to the Dry Drunk, Part II"

Another great article from CounterPunch: "Addiction, Brain Damage and the President -- ‘Dry Drunk’ Syndrome and George W. Bush" -- and the follow-up, "Dry Drunk Confirmed?"

Don't let up in bringing up this subject to fence-sitters. Bush acts like a brain-damaged unrecovered alcohol addict. Ask why the Republican National Committee failed to vet Mr. Bush -- and keep him from being nominated for having failed to get medical and psychological help for his self-admitted addiction to booze.