Bush...Kerry...Can't Decide?

So perhaps you are an undecided voter. You aren't thrilled with George Bush's domestic policy, but you find his defiance to the terrorists invigorating. Maybe you find Kerry's core values are suspect? Well, Bush is the only president I can think of with a criminal record. His DUI arrest (a Class D Misdemeanor) occurred at a time when George did not know what to do with his 30 year-old self. He was sorta buying and selling oil leases, but it wasn't a business. He was a year out of grad school and it was a year before he would get a hold of some of his father's friends disposable capital to found the ill-fated Arbusto Company. He was hanging out with a tennis star and driving drunk in Sept. of 1976.

Contrast that with John Kerry who passed the bar and went to work as a prosecutor during the same time.

Bush didn't stop drinking after his conviction for ten more years. Prior to his conviction, rumors had dogged him for years about possible cocaine use but, interestingly enough, there is no record of such a thing. Just a lot of unanswered questions. He cleaned up his act when he was 40 years old.

By the time George Bush cleaned up his act, John Kerry had been elected to the Senate and was presiding over an investigation that led to the Iran-Contra hearings.