Bush and Cocaine

I don't really know too much about the author Kitty Kelley or her reputation. Nor do I know that much about the reliability of the British paper The Mirror. So, I'll leave it up to you to judge the validity of either as a relevent source. With that preample out of the way, here is a piece from The Mirror about the upcoming Kitty Kelley book, "The Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty":

"Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s.
"She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: 'Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either.'"

Now, to be honest, I could care less if Bush did coke or not, or when and where he did it for that matter. However, I do think some other voters will care, specifically the whole holier-than-thou crowd.
This book will definitely get some press, and it will not be good for Bush. His campaign certainly doesn't want to be talking about cocaine in September of an election year. But my hunch is they are going to have to talk about it whether they like it or not.

Posted by Paul Hina at September 7, 2004 12:22 AM