The IRONY of it all ...

This one is just too obvious to pass up. Have you seen the CASA commercial on TV that features a short snippet from the campaign-trail days of current President Bush? A question is posed to the stumping president about whether he ever ate dinner with his family at the family table. He replies (paraphrased), "Yes, so long as it wasn't my mom who was doing the cooking."

A current day Barbara Bush is put on the screen to which she replies, "Now George, it's not nice to poke fun at your mom."

Mrs. Bush follows this up with a set of stats that mentions how teens are LESS LIKELY to try drugs, smoking, and alcohol the MORE they eat dinner with their family. You can go to the CASA website to see their reports about this correlation. CASA stands for Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse. They have a worthy cause, they're doing fantastic work to curb the addictions and substance abuse.

But here's the irony of it all....hasn't Mr. Bush admitted to a drug problem in his past, didn't he admit to alcohol abuse and the such? It seems that if you were to make a commercial touting the good benefits of eating dinner with your family and how it works to prevent substance abuse that you'd find someone for whom this worked.

I'm not knocking on Mr. Bush here. He's admitted his problem, and has made strides to prevent it and answer for it. I just wonder about the irony of it all.