I am not a regular consumer of alcohol and don't associate much with people who are, but van Wormer's analysis has the ring of truth to it. The great multitude of nearly unanimously denunciatory comments here do raise valid objections to her "speculating", "theorizing" and "psycho-babbling". HOWEVER, the same criticisms could well also be levied against Ken Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton's sex life. Such objections do NOT prove that Clinton was an honest, faithful and non-sleazy husband and president, nor so they constitute a viable argument that George W. Bush's decades of prior alcoholism have not taken a mental and psychological toll on him. The difference between van Wormer and Starr is that she has not been given a multi-million dollar budget to go fishing for slime, and the obsessive attention of half the U.S Congress.
If the public (and politicians) could only see what Fulbright noted as "the pathology in the politics." One day, perhaps, they will."
In my opinion this was not an honest critique based on true science but a cute way of "Bush basing". It is similiar in many ways to what others have done on this link. They start with some simplistic idea to base their arguement on and then go on with their "Bush basing". Transparent and an insult to all the readers on this site. There is no objection to putting ones view forward, but don't try to conceal it as a legimately based research effort. Using distant diagnosis, it my opinion that KW must be proud of what she has presented. But, as has been seen on this thread, no one else does.
by Fred Ferrell on May 18, 2003 at 2:46 AM