To be honest, that wouldn’t surprise me. And, even though the Enquirer is not a “serious” newspaper, it has broken hard news stories to scoop major dailies in the past.
That said, I do agree with this assessment of Bush’s personality.
Another source said: “I’m only surprised to hear that he hadn’t taken a shot sooner. Before Katrina, he was at his wit’s end. I've known him for years. He's been a good ol’ Texas boy forever. George had a drinking problem for years that most professionals would say needed therapy. He doesn’t believe in it (therapy), he never got it. He drank his way through his youth, through college and well into his thirties. Everyone's drinking around him.”
AA has a term for people like this, even though they aren’t actively drinking: Dry drunks.
Now, I don’t believe in everything AA says, in fair part because I’m a secularist and in fair part because AA does not really work that well, uninvestigated PR aside.
Plus, the “dry drunk” phrase is all too often a way of slamming somebody else just because you don’t like them or don’t agree with their point of view on something.
That said, the phrase does have a degree of truth to it.
Does Bush still maintain the air of petulance on one side, devil-may-care on the other that many indulged 6-year-olds have? Yes indeedy, from where I sit. Is this something that true alcoholism recovery generally tries to address? Yes, sir.
Does not addressing it automatically lead to a relapse? No. But, does it often leave you skating on thin ice? Without a doubt.
This has now gotten official traction on Salon. Stay tuned on this baby.
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