CNN: "The president quit drinking alcohol when he was 40"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/bush.physical.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush was pronounced "fit for duty" by his doctors after his annual physical Saturday. The checkup was delayed for four months because of his heavy travel schedule during the campaign.

"I have interviewed and examined President George W. Bush and have reviewed his medical record," a statement signed by 10 doctors said. "Within the scope of my specialty, I find him to be fit for duty and have every reasonable expectation that he will remain fit for duty for the duration of his presidency."

Bush has had several small skin growths treated as a preventive measure, including lesions around his nose that are common in people with sun damage. He has had four small lesions removed from his cheeks and arm with liquid nitrogen.

The president smokes an occasional cigar. He quit drinking alcohol when he was 40. He has caffeine in diet sodas and coffee.

[Blue Gardener]

1. Quit at 40

Started again at 41.

[Melodybe]

3. I hope he drinks lots and lots of diet sodas

only fitting since aspartame is so deadly and Runny is the reason that we get the shit at all.

BTW, CNN, Who gives a fuck?

[IronLionZion]

7. Edwards is a diet soda addict

and so are some DUers.

personally, I hope a pretzel puts Bush out of his misery. Presidenting is too hard for him.

[njdemocrat106]

Is real soda anymore dangerous than diet soda?

Because I'm a Coke fiend. I'm addicted to Coca-Cola Classic.

[Pepperbelly]

32. sugar is a thousand times better than aspertame...

that shit is toxic.

Nutrasweet my ass. Eats nerve sheaths while addicting you.

[kedrys]

8. ...and switched to hard drugs. n/t

[brucefan]

2. Sure he did

When he got drunk and choked on that pretzel he was 55.

[The Zanti Regent]

4. How do they know?

Name the source, CNN!

[Lautremont]

5. Who the hell is that over his left shoulder?

Nosferatu?

[koopie57]

9. It looks to me like

he was the proctologist. And I wonder if any of those ten doctors was a psychologist or psychiatrist?

[MAlibdem]

36. I hope so...

"And I wonder if any of those ten doctors was a psychologist or psychiatrist?"

An annual mental exam should be mandatory for the president, no matter what party. Nothing wrong with talking to a psychologist about your troubles.

[Malva Zebrina]

11. I don't know but I have seen that SS guy over his right shoulder so much

in all the photos I have looked at over the past four years, that I would recognize him instantly should I ever pass him on the street.

[sundancekid]

6. ... and will quit other drugs when he's 80 ... every 40 years or so ...

[Benhurst]

10. Now he takes it in furtive gulps when he thinks no one is watching. NT

[karlrschneider]

12. So he was sober at that friend's wedding 5 years later?

Yeah, and I have some beachfront property in Needles for sale...
:eyes:

[XemaSab]

13. No mention made

Of the skull and bones BRAND on his ass.

(On edit: it's time for another look at that video!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/bush/bush.html

Hell, it's ALWAYS time for another look at the man who's restored DIGNITY to the white house.)

[unblock]

14. "within the scope of my specialty"

not only do i suspect a narrow definition of "specialty", but i also suspect they identified his problems and dropped the pertinent doctors.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. It means they make no psychiatric assessments since it's outside their

scope of practice :evilgrin:

[NC_Nurse]

15. I noticed that the list of docs

who looked at him did not include a neurologist or a psychiatrist. Hmmmmm...

:eyes:

[Bouncy Ball]

25. In 2001, there was a neurologist

but not a psychologist. Those are never included.

See my post below. Here is the 2001 report, the only one that ever officially been released.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010804-2.html

[colonel odis]

33. psychologists aren't physicians is probably one reason.

[quaoar]

17. Fit for duty??????

Does that mean he gets his National Guard flight status back 32 years later?

[bookman]

29. Why not?

The president in Independence Day flew. :)

[Malva Zebrina]

18. why is the fact that he quit drinking alcohol mentioned at all

in this report? Especially since it happened fifteen or more years ago, according to his own reports?

Smells like a dead codfish lying on a dock in the sun for three days.
This report of his physical is just another marketing promotion and all those in this report simply complicit in the promotion. If they found something abnormal, you can bet that they would not say it.

This is all part of the "marketing" of the "war president" who said today that he needs to take off a few pounds from "his frame" because he ate too many doughnuts on the campaign trail. Just the good old boy,Texas faux rancher, who overeats doughnuts like the rest of those overweight rednecks who voted for him because he is a guy they would like to have a beer with.

Now he has something in common with them. He puts on weight due to his overindulgence on doughnuts.

Ugh--

[zann725]

19. Good point! No need to deny what wasn't being asked.

n/t

[SmokingJacket]

20. I don't believe any of it.

Why? I just don't. If they say something and make a big deal about it, chances are it's a lie.

I don't believe he didn't have four hours for a physical in August when he had plenty of time to cut brush.

I don't believe he's quit drinking, either.

And you know what?

I don't HAVE to believe it. So there.



:P

[demgrrrll]

21. I'm with you on that. I don't believe a word that any of them speak.

Biggest bunch of liars on the planet.

[Maiden England]

22. Bush had several small skin growths treated incl. lesions around his nose

excessive snorting of cocaine's a bitch ain't it?

:evilgrin:

[Nordic]

23. it's not his physical health we're worried about

but the health of his Bb-b-b-b-b-brain .....

[Bouncy Ball]

24. OMG it is the EXACT same physical as was

reported in 2001, the ONLY year there is an official summation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20010804-2.html

Read it. There is NO summation of any physical in 2002 or 2003. And the snippets we are getting through news articles this year are the exact same as the 2001 official summation. Word for word.

"Just recycle that one from 2001, yeah that'll do."

[illbill]

26. Great observation.

Wow.... must happen a lot in politics.

Death to filtered media!

[Bouncy Ball]

27. I mean seriously.

Did you read that 2001 one? It's like the AP just went to that summation from three years ago, took some quote and tidbits and wrote the story. It's chilling how alike they are.

And when you find the little news tidbits on his 2002 and 2003 "physicals" THOSE stories read EXACTLY the same as this one and as the 2001 summation. They mention the knee surgeries, the exercise, the skin cancer problems, the not drinking alcohol and only drinking coffee and diet cokes.

Now someone COULD say that just means nothing new has been found and he has the same habit and health level of three years ago.

BUT that doesn't explain the fact that every news story on his "physicals" read exactly like the first summation in 2001.

That's just fucking WEIRD.

[illbill]

31. Beware...

of the media.

[sakabatou]

28. Any mental health examinations or just physical health issues?

[GarySeven]

30. He intends to FORCE CHILDREN to have mental exams

he ought to have the guts to belly up to the couch first.

[slor]

34. He has yet to...

quit acting drunk however.

[Fawn]

35. Are you sure...

...he's "acting"?