Stop Apologizing!
This time it comes from the Democratic camp. Some rather senior Hillary staffer commented that Obama's confessed drug use (which was more extensive than the typical teen age experimentations involving both cocaine and marijuana discussed in his own book) would make it harder to win a general election. That person was right. Most people don't want a President who whines on about how hard it was to find his identity so he hid himself on a Hawaiian beach with a bong and snorted coke. Cry me a volcanic river people. Believe it or not, there exist people even of his generation who really never did drugs of any kind. Really. We view the ones who did less favorably. Fact. It's Not PC to comment on it?
Obama's drug use was ILLEGAL and he is running for President. It is a standard question every President got. Even Bill had to fess up about the inhaling thing. Apparently Obama's peeps have turned this into another race card that they are playing- white folk can't comment on the negative appeal of drug use of a black guy (half black guy) because that conjures up images of drug use of black guys. You don't say! They put so much pressure on the opposing campaign that Hillary bought into it?
GROW UP! That campaign advisor's job is to assess which qualities are more endearing to a General election audience. He did his job. He was right. Now he apparently feels he has to resign? RIDICULOUS.
I hope Obama realizes that this is exactly the sort of stuff that divides the country in half and makes half the country go- we can't have even a half black President. Not because he did drugs-while that was sleazy it was forgiveable, but because no one can mention that it was sleazy!
EVERY teenager has an identity issue they have to resolve. Obama didn't have his real father around, like tons of people. Some people were mixed race and confused about it and did not do drugs at all. Some people had real problems like a face full of acne socially isolating them. Some kids were fat. They don't all do drugs. Some resolve their identity in throwing themselves in things like sports, bury themselves in academic achievement and honors, get really into making remote controlled balsa wood airplanes, take up horseback riding or become expert surfers. Some kids his age in America were winning science contests making rockets to the moon, other kids were volunteering at the animal shelter playing veterinarian, other kids were learning their Hebrew, other kids were candy stripers in nursing homes dreaming of becoming a doctor or nurse, other kids were winning basketball or soccer trophies, --Obama was snorting coke and paid good money that his single mother probably couldn't afford for cocaine and marijuana and whatever else that got edited out of the book.
It's totally fair comment on the character development issue and I don't care what color he is.
Parents and anyone involved in child rearing try despirately to steer their kids away from drugs and drug crowds. What kind of message does Obama send? Do what you have to, so long as you don't get caught, make it to a good college write a book about it and you too can someday be President!
It is plainly stupid of Hillary's people to let themselves get hammered by the race card- they need more backbone to stand up to this crap. I have met Obama this campaign season. If I met him at Columbia I wouldn't date him. He strikes me as someone who in his teens was a bit on the spoiled side and thought he was too cool for his pants. And I wouldn't care how ambitious he was or if he would some day run for President. I don't like that he "confessed" or bragged on his drug use to give him "street cred". I like even less that anyone was ignorant enough to pull the race card on that one.
Hillary should not have either forced the guy to resign or accepted his resignation. She got Played Big there. Who should you like more-the player or the played? It's epox on both their houses for that one.
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