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Boisterous Boris
Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
By Dana Cook [2007-04-23]

  • There are drunks ... and then there are drunks

    Let's compare superpower drunks:

    One ends nearly a decade at the helm of a superpower - publicly intoxicated almost the entire time - having accomplished nothing more than preventing the Forces of Darkness from getting their hands on the world's second-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.

    The other touts his jayzuz-inspired dryness while destroying in turn the last secular Arab nation, the 60-year-old system of international cooperation and trust, and the most-admired Constitutional Democracy in the world.

    Give me a falling-down "wet" drunk who retains the courage to stand up to bullies with tanks over an unrecovered "dry" alcoholic who acts out his daddy issues by bullying the world.

    -- Yellow Dog
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    Monday, April 23, 2007 11:26 AM
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