Bottle of Blog: Preznit Sobers Up, Makes Judgment

Sober Judgment: "That last pretzel was a mistake."

SAN AIR BASE, South Korea - His war policies under siege at home, President Bush said Saturday there would be no early troop withdrawal because “sober judgment” must prevail over emotional calls to end the military mission before Iraq is stabilized.

"Sober judgment"? What is this? A codeword to his base that he's back on the wagon? Yeah, that's what I look for--sober judgment from a guy who can't remember his forties.

What does he know about "sober judgment"? This is a guy who disappears for weeks at a time. This is a guy who can't be seen by the public after ten o'clock at night. This is a guy, in the mid 90's, who woke up naked and bruised and confused in the Governor's Mansion in Austin. He was surrounded by total strangers, had a couple of bloody knuckles, and the last thing he could remember was walking into a bar in Alabama sometime around 1972.