"Screw it. Ah'm off the wagon an' lovin' it."

Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

While attending APEC in Lima, Bush partakes of a traditional Peruvian drink known as a "Pisco Sour" (leave your puns in comments).  The ingredients?

2 oz pisco brandy
1 oz lime juice
1/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 egg white
1 dash Angostura® bitters

And it shows:

"You Orientals tickle!"

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Comments

[trifecta]

A fuck up getting fucked up. A fitting end.

[JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde]

Oriental Joy Buzzers.

Possibly one of my favorite bands.

[TeddySanFran]

Douchebag lost one of his stupid fucking lapel pins too. Does he know where the nukular football is, do you suppose?

[moeman]

Take away his keys, to the nation.

[Bill Wilson]

Georgie will drink himself to rehab or death in less than four years.

[pansypoo]

useless monkey.

[Rene ala Carte]

Every context, every setting, any kind of people, W manages to embarrass us.

[raceynora]

Bill Wilson - can we quote you on that?

[HarpoSnarx]

Even Bill W. wouldn't have THAT for a friend.

[Sharkbabe]

Sick little murdering pig could never make amends with me.

God make him gone!!

[Capt. Bat Guano]

Take it from a recovering alcoholic, he has that one drink with the big boys in public, just being polite you know, but that one drink just triggers the craving because as soon as he gets alone he's slugging it down like he did before he became a dry drunk. I'd like to be his sponsor so I could put him through as much hell as I could think of.

[Sharkbabe]

I do think he'll go downhill fast. Oops, make that pray.

[Daro]

Can't say personally about booze but a buddy of mine had one cigarette in a bar after 3 months quit and the next day he had a packet in his hand again, back to 20 a day. The brain is a vicious thing! I figure even if it just had the splash of Angostura bitters (45%) it'd be enough to trigger the crocodile snap back to addiction.

[demit]

Another photo for the history books. They'll have to devote entire semesters to answering the questions of future schoolchildren: "But, teacher, why did they elect him?"

[shpx.ohfu]

If it were anyone else, booze in the hands of an alcoholic would be sad. In Dubbew's case it is funny; but the rest of the ingredients are telling. Bitter, sour, frothy and free of substance. Topped off with simple syrup for a simpleton.

[Uncle Tio]

hey i hate w as much as you, but mmmmm. Pisco sour. goood.

[Carol]

The MSM helped 'w' with the legend of how he quit drinking cold turkey because of religion. Why aren't they debunking his sober life now. Don't you think the U.S. citizens have a right to know our 'president' isn't a dry drunk anymore? I think that should have been apparent every since they hauled out that lame story about the pretzel years ago. Man, his handlers don't even bother to come up with a half way believable lie. That' how little respect they have for the citizens. And considering the citizens put that moron into office twice maybe we don't deserve half way believable lies.

[Culture of Truth]

1/2 egg white?

Do I leave the yolks in the comments?

[terri]

OOOOOHHHHHH. He's going to need a gallon of Purell hand sanitizer now.

[Teresa Nielsen Hayden]

Uncle Tio, I can think of one branch of the mass media that's been debunking Bush's claims to sobriety for some time now: The National Enquirer. I'm serious. They do actual investigative journalism. (They have to. It's how they stay out of court.) The real difference between them and the rest of the MSM is the way they present their stories, and their notions about which stories are worth pursuing. They reported clear last year that George was off the wagon and Laura was threatening to leave him.

The source shouldn't come as a surprise. Earlier this year, when Sarah Palin first came to everyone's attention, The National Enquirer had investigators on the ground in Alaska, checking her out, almost as fast as McCain did. They broke a lot of the major stories about her background.

What they demonstrate is that there's nothing keeping the "respectable" national press from doing the same thing.

[Teresa Nielsen Hayden]

Whoops, sorry, that was Carol I was responding to. I was confused by the attribution format.

[wtf]

personally, i never believed that bush quit drinking for even a second

quit drinking in public, yes

but quit drinking? bwa ha ha ha ha HAHA

[Scott]

Didn't he imbibe at a foreign conference a while back, and the press got all "It was only half a glass of wine!" about it?

[Capt. Bat Guano]

An old AA saying: "One is too many and a hundred is not enough". That also applies to Dillhole and his addiction to war.

[jean]

He always sounds like he slurs his words, to me. Sometimes more than others. I've just assumed it was alcohol or drugs (prescription).