Obama's Use of Cocaine

Barack Obama used cocaine, according to his memoir.  Not just experimented with it, but used it whenever he could afford it.

Fine.  When he was young and foolish, he was young and foolish.  That's why Tom Bevan says, anyway.

But before this is entirely dismissed, let's remember that in August of 1999, the question of George W. Bush's possible cocaine use (not "alleged," because no one ever came forward to say they had seen Bush use cocaine) was the political story.  It was a classic feeding frenzy.

Why no feeding frenzy now?  It's not as simple as, Bush is a Republican and Obama is a Democrat.  It's that it is newsworthy when Republicans have been drug users because that is hypocrisy.  Democrats are somehow not guilty of hypocrisy.  Why?  It is because of the implicit view that Democrats have no problem with drug use, including campaign use.  They may say they do, but reporters know, or think they know, that Democrats don't really oppose cocaine use, so it's not hypocritical when they use cocaine.

Comments

[littlemoney]

Only Allah knows.

[John Foster]

We don't need a president who is honest about making terrible mistakes. Cocaine use is serious business and, given how addictive it is, a seriously stupid decision to make. I don't want someone who has made that stupid decision to be making decisions for me. Here's a novel idea; let's elect a candidate who was smart enough to avoid cocaine. Let's elect an experienced candidate who stands up for the constitution and who favors small government by and for the people. Obama is so inexperienced he thought Canada had a president and not a prime minister. I'll be voting for Ron Paul. The revolution starts now.

[steve High Ridge, MO]

I don't know if Obama can win but I know he will lose. If the whiney democrats nominate him for president he will lose big time in November to the Republicans. He said he took cocaine anytime he could afford it but explained it away by saying even though he wanted to try heroin, he decided against it. Face it, whiney democrats, the only people that can beat the republicans is Clinton. But maybe you democrats would rather whine than win.