Ah. Now I get it; they're all high.

[weldon_berger]

From the State Department website:

Secretary Powell: -- from Panama to Nicaragua, from Nicaragua to Honduras, and that's our air base in Honduras, Soto Cono.

So in a helicopter it's Tegucigalpa, then back out to the -- Tegucigalpa to Soto Cono, then Soto Cono to College Station last night, then I had to change all of my software and take out all of the Central American software and put in the Chinese software to give a speech this morning in Texas.

Question: So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?

Secretary Powell: Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called ambien, which is very good. You don't use ambien? Everybody here uses ambien.

This could explain a great many things. It's better than the stuff I make up.

[grasswire]

1. some info on ambien in this earlier thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=695400

[weldon_berger]

2. Ack. Thanks, I missed it.

I've mentioned the subject to several people and gotten widely varying responses. Ambien seems to be somewhat more benign than the elder Bush's choice, Halcion, but it still carries a number of common side effects that would seem to be counterproductive when one is attempting to run the world. One friend says 10mg knocks him silly, another says he uses it frequently when traveling, with no overt problem. What really struck me was the "not medication" part.

[BiggJawn]

3. "Wonderful medication"...Gag!

So, would Mrs. Powell be as candid about Viagra as Liddy Dole, you suppose?

Pill-poppin' limp-dicks and a closet Alkie at the helm....

We're fucked. And not in a GOOD way.

[weldon_berger]

4. I think Mrs. Powell would sooner staple herself

to the floor than see her husband doing commercials.

I don't suppose it really makes much difference if half the administration is buzzed. They had a plan and they stuck to it, and I doubt they would have screwed things up any less if sober.