but you guys seem to live and die by rumors so i thought i would pass it along. true? the cocaine is pretty well grounded in other reports, but laura as a druggy, i have to reserve judgement. just posting a rumor to keep pace with my right wing botl/
More trouble may be heading Mr Bush's way with the publication next week of The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, by the controversial muckraking biographer Kitty Kelley, which purports to give more details of the President's past misbehaviour, including the allegation he used cocaine at Camp David during his father's Presidency between 1989 and 1993.
Rumours of youthful drug taking by Mr Bush have often surfaced. Though he has admitted to being an alcoholic until he gave up drinking completely in 1986, he has sidestepped the cocaine stories. Questioned on the issue during the 2000 campaign, he acknowledged merely that he had made "some mistakes" and that he had learned from those mistakes.
The latest book by Ms Kelley, said to be the fruit of four years' research, follows previous unflattering studies of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the British Royal family.
Using the same tactic as against Mr Barnes, the White House commented that The Family appeared to be filled "with the same trash discredited years ago".
The most sensational allegation in the book is that the Presidential son used cocaine at Camp David. The source is reportedly Sharon Bush, his former sister-in-law, who was involved in a messy divorce in 2003 from the President's younger brother Neil after 22 years of marriage.
Ms Kelley says that the Bush family used their power and wealth to cover up scandals.
She alleges that George W Bush began to drink at high school, and continued to do so at Yale.
She quotes one former student as saying, "Poor Georgie, he couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded."
Perhaps the book's most improbable claim is that Laura Bush, now the model of primness and propriety as First Lady, both sold and smoked marijuana during her days at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
