Bush a "Dry Drunk"?

[Tiziminchac]

Certainly given any observers point of view this is exactly right. President Bush can be a bad president or a president you don't like without being a sloppy drunk with multiple disorders and evil traits. President Clinton can be a bad president or a president you don't like without sleeping with everything in a skirt and running cocaine in Arkansas. The need to inflate a public figures virtues or vices is universal - and tiresome.

Well said.

 

[disneyfan67]

I don't care if Laura's living there or not. That's gossip. (So I suppose I care on a gossip level).

Whether the President of the United States is an active alcoholic, yes, I care. I'm amazed that others would think it's none of our business.

I guess we'll have to wait for the equivalent of the Kissinger memoir (which told of a drunken Nixon kneeling in the Oval Office and talking to the portraits of former presidents.)

There's no proof that he's a active alcoholic and that's what people like me and Fits are protesting about. It's all speculation at this point. Blame him for the things he's done, not what some people think he's doing wrong. If you have absolute, undeniable proof that he's off the wagon, then I'm with you. Way too much hearsay and innuendo for my taste though.

 

[Laura]

I agree with the posters who do not agree with this. I find the term "dry drunk" especially distasteful and insulting to people (whether they be GWB or anybody who has struggled with an alcohol addiction) who have worked to conquer an addiction. If you are an alcoholic who no longer drinks, then you are sober, not a "dry drunk." Regardless of anyone's opinion on the President, I think this crosses the line.

"Dry drunk" does not refer to all recovering alcoholics, just those who exhibit alcoholic behavior though they haven't been drinking. The term is not that general. Apparently "dry" and "sober" are two different things.
http://www.aacanada.com/drydrunk.html

 

[daisax]

The OP raised the question of his being a "dry drunk" and an incorrect definition (an alcoholic who doesn't drink) was provided.

Not all sober alcoholics are dry drunks. For lack of a better explanation, "Dry drunk" is a term used to label people whose personalities and dispositions do not improve when they stop drinking. In other words, alcohol may no longer pass their lips, but nothing else changes, because they have not embraced repairing the damage they did to their lives when abusing alcohol.

Then we went off on a tangent, because of recent speculation that he had been seen drinking. So two separate (but related) topics.

 

[daisax]

If you have absolute, undeniable proof that he's off the wagon, then I'm with you.

How would you suppose we could get that kind of information about ANY president of the US, let alone this one?

 

[stargrazer]

I hope someone here can educate me on a question; is 'dry drunk' an A.A. term or did it originate somewhere else?

 

[daisax]

I've always assumed it was an AA term.

 

[cybertheo]

Not all sober alcoholics are dry drunks. For lack of a better explanation, "Dry drunk" is a term used to label people whose personalities and dispositions do not improve when they stop drinking. In other words, alcohol may no longer pass their lips, but nothing else changes, because they have not embraced repairing the damage they did to their lives when abusing alcohol.

Well put Daisax