[PEN-L:30652] Re: Personalities and the List

[Michael Pollak <mpollak@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Michael Perelman wrote:

> Smoking gun had a video of a drunk W. and by the looks of it the event was
> not too long ago.

I still for the life of me can't figure out why anyone thinks that tape
portrays Bush being drunk.  His shtick there was the fastest, smartest,
most self-conscious and funniest I've ever seen him.  I don't think
there's any way in hell he could have done that if he was drunk.  I was
dumbfounded to see he had it in him period.

The pretzel and the capillaries and rumors are another matter.  He might
well be drinking; it must be pretty stressful pretending to be president,
and trying to remember all those key words in speeches all the time in
front of a bunch of studiers trying to trip you up.

I'm just saying that tape is not evidence of it, IMHO.

Michael