Obama? Cocaine? Chris Knudsen brought up an interesting question about Barack Obama today.
“Russ I’d like your opinion on why the press is not reporting on Barack’s admitted cocaine use? If this were a republican they would slaughter him for using drugs.”
Why No Extensive Press Coverage of Barack Obama’s Cocaine Use?
Because it isn’t news as in “new” information and because he is the one who divulged it. If it would have come out from someone else, the media would have had a heyday with it. And from what I understand, he actually divulged the information in a book he wrote when he was in his early 30s.
Barack Obama on 60 Minutes
So when Barack Obama was on 60 minutes on Sunday (video) and Steve Kroft says “You inhaled [marijuana].” Mr. Obama simply says “I did.” He also admits to cocaine use and that he thought about using heroine. He goes on. “It’s not something that I’m proud of, but that’s part of the journey that I’ve taken. I like to think that by letting people know the mistakes I’ve made that maybe young people behind me are looking and saying ‘You know what? This is a guy who made mistakes and he was able to write his life and get on track.’ And that’s I think an important message.”
Killing the Controversy
Barack Obama took all the controversial winds out of the sails by being upfront and honest. There’s no controversy in admitting that your human, and most politicians do not get this simple concept. Obama does an amazing job of being human and authentic, and frankly, that’s not news.
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Great analysis
Couldn’t agree with you more. On a sports level, I once spoke to a writer about this very thing. He said that an organization is upfront about it and divulges the information they can to the media, the story is over in a story or two. On the filp side, however, an organization hides details and is tight-lipped, the story goes on for weeks, and they’ll dig for more info.
I suppose young people could see Obama’s former drug use and be inspired to turn their own lives around, but couldn’t some of them see it and say, “Hey, this dude did drugs and now he’s running for president. Maybe drugs aren’t so bad . . .”
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.
Ron Paul Sucks. Barack Rocks. Vote Obama. Change the World.
To the guy who says that Obama shouldn’t be elected simply because he did cocaine, that’s ridiculus. The guy made some mistakes, so what? Alcohol is just as dangerous as cocaine. I’m sorry we’re not all as perfect as you are, but I’m willing to bet there’s some secrets in your closet, that if aired out, would be just as bad as his cocaine use. Usually the one’s who make the most protest about someone else’s mistakes are simply ashamed of their own. Me personally, I’m a Ron Paul supporter, he wants to end the drug war, he realizes it just another war he have lsot.
I agree with you. People make mistakes. But, I personally look at this situation differently because the man is asking to be the President of the U.S. He’s saying vote for me, and oh by the way, I did cocaine once, an act which has placed many people in prison in this country.
As a Republican, I can’t wait for obama’s nomination. He was a cocaine user, smoked hash and even thought abut taking heroin. He finally found self control and decided against heroin. Then the uniter brags about dumping his white girlfriend because of her race. What a uniter. Now that he’s off drugs he wants to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. You whiney democrats are really making it hard for us republicans. If obama is nominated we could phone in our victory. Go obama, go.
Can someone tell us average Democratic voters more about Barak Obama’s admission of Cocaine use in his youth? We have a right to know the whole story, good or bad, before anyone casts a vote for him. He has not explained anything about that part of his life and I’d like to know the answers before he gets the Democratic nod. If we don’t know and he is nominated, the Republicans will be sure to tell us the whole story swift boat style. So please someone ask the questions.
1) What kind of cocaine did he use?
At what age did he gain the good judgment that breaking the law was a bad idea?
2) Did he snort it, inject it,etc.?
3) Where did he get the money to purchase it?
4) Did he ever sell drugs? If so when did he stop ?
5) When was the last time he used any illegal drugs?
6) What age was he when he quit using cocaine?
7) We have many people in prison for using illegal drugs and he should be president?
9) Why did he think it was good judgment to put his drug use in a book?
10) What qualifies him to lecture teenagers at a HS regarding drug use?
If he can honestly give good reasoned answers for any of this, Many of us would like to hear them. These are fair questions! We deserve answers sooner rather than later. After all, he is running to be the president of The United States of America.
1-He didnt salute the Flag how can he be president.
2-It doesnt matter that he was honest it was just a ploy to make you think he’s honest.
Hillary made the right vote on authorizing the war if the inspections didn’t work. Let me use an example to explain. A detective goes to a judge and tells him there’s strong evidence a man is keeping a kidnapped girl in his house. The judge gives the detective a search warrent. The detective goes to the house, and with his cowboy diplomacy, kicks down the door and marches into the house without knocking. The occupant is startled and goes for his gun. The detective blows his brains out. Then he inspects the house and doesn’t find the girl. Wrong house! According to the brain dead democrats the Judge is responsible for the man’s murder because he authorized the inspection of the house where the kidnapped girl might be. Duh. Would Obama have authorized the inspection of the house for the kidnapped girl? I don’t know? But I do know he was too cowardly to vote yes or no on 127 bills in Illinois congress. He took the spineless way out and voted “present”. This guy may be the press’s agent of change but he’s proven he’s not the country’s agent of change. The Democrats may be dumb enough to nominate Obama but he won’t win over five states after the Republican swift boat throws the net out. Hard telling what they’ll drag up. These guys play for keeps. Ask wind sailer John Kerry, who is naturally an Obama supporter.
Is obama still on the pipe? He compares himself to Ronald Reagan while he’s trying to court the union vote. Reagan is a union buster. Are the democrats dumb enough to fall for this? Don’t answer that question. It’s too easy. This is like going to Harlem and comparing yourself to George Wallace. Then asking for their vote.
To the people who praise Obama for revealing his past use of pot and cocaine, saying he would make a good President because he’s honest, I have to point out that what he did is a FELONY. Do you understand what that means? It means he can never work in many government jobs like in the military, the post office, and so on. And it means that, for the rest of his life, when he applies for a job, he’ll have to fill out a questionaire that describes his felony record, and if he lies about it and they do a background check, it’s all over. A felony is society’s way of saying that you have no character and can not be trusted, and you can’t vote for many years in most states. So, you can’t get a government job, you can’t vote, but you can be PRESIDENT? The head law enforcement official? Do you also want the inmates running the prisons or the lunatics running the assylum? Give me a break. Yes, it is good that Obama came forward rather than doing the usual lying, hypocritical cover-up crap, but supposing he had said “yes, I admit it, I was a serial rapist but I’m not now”, do we say “oh, then that’s alright then”? I’m sorry, but he was an adult when he did what he did, and he did it knowing that it was a serious crime, but he didn’t give a damn about our laws. And now he’s supposed to run the anti-drug task force and punish others for exactly the same thing he was un-punished for? Isn’t THAT hypocritical? Sorry, but you commit a felony and you should never be the President, regardless of whether you got away with it or not. You still did it. You still exhibit no character in that you have proven an ability to break any rule of decent behavior when it suits you. This guy is to be commended for the changes he’s made in his life, but you still can’t trust him as his past proves it. He will NOT get my vote. You know, impeachment proceedings happen when a person commits a “high crime (i.e. felony) or (serious) misdemeanor”, and it causes removal from office. Here’s a guy who has already committed a felony, and we’re seriously thinking of putting him IN to office? Give me break.
It is rather alarming that Barack has admitted to this ” experimentation” of cocaine. Cocaine is highly abusive. Cocaine and heroine take fewer exposures to addict than say, alcohol. I have been applying at a number of police departments and it would be next to impossible to get hired after divulging the fact I had even tried cocaine. Let’s face it, alcoholics/addicts always claim, “I have only had two drinks”. Does anyone think that someone who has the personality of an addict would be honest? Of course not, that is at the root of their problem. It is so unfortunate most Americans don’t get the fact that an addiction is a psychological, emotional, and personality disorder. Look up personality disorders and tell me if you are willing to gamble on voting the next president to the white house if there was a suspicion of drug abuse in their past. Some personality disorders- Schizoid, borderline, anti-social, etc. We already have experimented with a “dry drunk” in the White House, let’s quit while we are ahead, Dubyeeeee. Just because the drinking ends doesn’t mean the poor behaviour ends! Personally, I think we should drug test presidents all the time. To be a measly cop I have to, why not the highest job in the land? New findings recently state the abuse of Marijuana leads to the developement of schizophrenia. That is scary considering most people out there don’t care who has tried it. I can’t say Obama is/was an addict, but do you want to take a chance? Just because he admits to this he is deemed better than soemone who never tried narcotics? What is wrong with that? A lot of people haven’t tried Cocaine. More young people are these days, so does that make it more acceptable?
I do not think Obama is authentic. It shows that he is very calculating — he always had political ambitions and wrote about his drug use way back when to innoculate himself from attacks later on. Just because he admitted to it does not exonerate him from the felony. By the way, how many people you know would write an autobiography at 30? He has been planning for this presidential run years in advance. It shows the manipulative side (or maybe he is just egotistical and narcissistic), especially since he portrays himself as above the fray. Combination of the drug use and his association with Rezko shows poor judgement at best. Oops, there goes his judgement over experience argument.
OBAMA is ‘THE BLACK BUSH” another druggie with no respect for the office. We already know what character flawed personalities do to our country so why would anyone in their right mind want the President to be that way.
If he wants to serve he should have started in the military and then he could have tried a lower office, but a ‘hot mess’ in the White House… you gota be kidding.
“There’s no controversy in admitting that your human, and most politicians do not get this simple concept. ”
I thought you’d nailed it, Russ, until I read your readers’ comments. Clearly, many of them would have respected Obama if he’d kept his humanity to himself.
“Why did he think it was good judgment to put his drug use in a book?”
Because that’s what honest people do when they write books about their lives–they tell the truth about the decisions they regret. It’s refreshing to read about a politician’s life without feeling like all the relevant pages have been torn out. If you’re looking for self-absorbed, candy-coated autobiographies, may I recommend “The No Spin Zone” by Bill O’Reilly, or “My Life” by Bill O’Clinton?
How can we elect a president who abused drugs? What message does that send to youth? If this country elects Obama then it is worthy of Osama. We now have a corrupt ignorant plundering majority that will destroy freedom and any possibility of raising traditional families. When that family fails nations fall.
Robert, you’re funny.
Do you prefer crimes that DO have victims? Perhaps war crimes are a bit more up your ally? Do you believe alcohol is less harmful to society than marijuana? Do you believe cocaine use is less detrimental if the President promises to lie about it?
Please be careful about how you use the word “ignorant,” especially when you have no data whatsoever to base any of your bloviating on, other than your own unsubstantiated gut feelings.
Goerge Bush was arrested for cocaine possesion, and a DUI. You have to be a pretty frequent user to get caught with it. We’ve elected him. We live in a society completely saturated with drugs. Look up the definition of “drug” then ask yourself how many cups of coffee have you had today? A cigarette? Many people are not in tune to what is going on around them every day.
Obama was absent from the Illinois Senate
on November 4, 1999. His name was on 2 bills
mentioned during that session.
Does anyone know where Obama was on November 4?
Sounds like a young Marion Barry.
Why is it we have no leaders on any ticket this year?
Ron Paul drew 18,000 in the RNC battleground.
i think he is a bad person to be a president first of all he did drugs no other president has done cocaine marijuana and other thigs and second of all he gots no experience and all he is saying is maccain is with bush mccain has more experience and gots war experience obama doesn’t
Actually, Bush was cited with a DUI, there was no report of any cocaine found. Interesting how the facts change over the years. You know, if Obama would have been caught using cocaine, he couldn’t even get a job as a postal carrier. or any other State, or Federal job for that matter, or a teaching job. But, because he wasn’t caught, he can now become president.. Sounds, odd doesn’t it? Oh, when did he say he quit using cocaine? Answer.. He never did say.. But who cares, it’s an Obama thing baby!!
Typical!
Dan, people “get caught” only when they behave irresponsibly while under the influence. Many folks have productive, healthy relationships with “drugs”–whether antidepressants or caffeine or tobacco or A.D.D. medication (which is chemically similar to cocaine). Some people can use “illegal” substances without becoming a burden to society. Apparently Obama was one of those people; your boy Bush was not.
Most experts now admit that the GOP’s “war on drugs” was a fantastic failure, both morally and practically. Read Andrew Weil’s “From Chocolate to Morphine.” We let our children down.
Please read books.
In most large American cities, if an applicant admits to, or is found to be lying about cocaine use in their past they would not be allowed to serve as a police officer. So why would we accept such behavior out of a presidential candiadate? Are we that desperate?
By the way, refering back to the RonPaul comment. Where the hell was the 3rd party during the Presidential debate?
The republican and democratic parties have so much unrestrainted power these days that they have blurred the line between Law and Policy. Often their Policies defy Laws but who is looking?
“spread the wealth” socialist.. no vote from me. I work too hard for my money to give it to someone who works not all.
Are we asking the wrong question?
If someone applied for a job in the White House and their resume/background check reported the following.
Admitted previous Cocaine use and has a possible association with an acquitted Pentagon and NYC Police Headquarters bomber.
Which Candidate would hire that person?
Just Curious.
I think that it is pathetic that he can run for President after doing drugs that are ILLEGAL in the US. If I were to do the same, I would not be allowed to follow my heart and be a teacher in the US. What makes it right for OBAMA??? Is he saying that reguardless of our actions and drug use we can work any job?? If we vote him in, we are adding to the problem.
Wow Gretchen. I did a ton of drugs when I was a teen, kind of like Obama. I got over it like most people do. Do I still need to sit at home and be miserable, leeching off the government? Because I had a doobie at age 15, I shouldn’t be able to go to college, get a degree and pursue my life’s dreams?
Have a beer Gretch, and let me borrow those stones you’re tossing out.
p.s. If you have children, there’s a very likely chance they’ll try a drug of some sort. I hope you keep the little meth heads from ever moving on in life, which is clearly your goal.
The media is so one sided in this election that I am surprised we know of a candidate other that Obama. The following are the words of Obama’s VP, if you beleive Joe, then it won’t be long before Joe is the next president of the US.
“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ….Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said…..we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Biden is a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, privy to the same intelligence as George Bush. What does he know that the rest of the US citizens don’t? The media failed to ask and re-ask, had John McCain made this statement, they would have demanded to know and would have accused him of fear mongering about a new 9/11. Joe also stated,
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and ….. said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
Niceeeeeee, when the stock market crashed it was 1929 and Hoover was president and there was no such thing as television.
This people, is what your messiah offering change will bring. No one has asked exactly what that change will be. I would bet it is a change for the worse.
@Russ
Very intelligent breakdown!
@Gretchen
Yeah, good idea.. The American way is definitely about burning people at stake when they aren’t perfect. Especially when they admit they were wrong and are sorry. Glad there are still people in our county who are here to cast judgment down from above on all the mortals.
Ha ha ha–Obama wins! Now he can do bumps in the oval office. Maybe now this ridiculous war on drugs will come to an end.
So an admitted felon is now our president. Lovely. Someone who could not pass the background check to serve as a law enforcement officer is now the highest law enforcement official in the US, and who would be disqualified from serving in the military is now our commander in chief. But hey, he’s “cool” and he reads a good speech. That’s good enough for 52% of the voting public here in the “American Idol” nation, where electing a president is treated like choosing a prom king.
Wow Russell. It honestly boggles the mind. The contributions from your readers are exactly the reason I left the great “state” of Utah (quotation marks added to emphasize “state” as a condition of mind rather than geographically defined location). As an individual who has had experience with all types of drugs, I respect and admire the candid admission of our President-elect Obama (thank the lord on high - democracy does work!) regarding his past drug use. I, like YOUR future President, am not proud of my past drug use, and I didn’t just consider doing heroine - I actually did it. Fortunately, one day I was able to realize drugs were not the way for me and were going to ruin my life if I continued down that path. So I quit. And I turned my life around. I recently graduated from my university Magna Cum Laude, and I am currently teaching at a reputable university while I finish up my Master’s Degree. Sure, I was lucky enough to avoid a run-in with the law during my days of experimentation, much like YOUR president. Mine could have been a completely different story. His story could have been different as well. But now it’s history, water under the bridge, and both of us have proven our humanity in the process. Would YOUR readers like to retroactively condemn me for my past indiscretions? Would YOU all like to prosecute me and send me to prison for the felonies I have committed in my past? Would I not then become a burden on YOUR society, one that YOU the taxpayer would be required to compensate through your taxes for many years to come, considering the recidivism rate hangs at around 67 percent in US prisons? Look it up people.
But I have been given the chance to make something of myself, and, rather than ending up in prison and costing all YOU conservative taxpayers considerable amounts of money, I have become a productive, tax-paying member of YOUR society, just as your future president has, President elect Barack Obama (he’s black, by the way, if YOU haven’t noticed…oh wait, it is apparent that YOU have noticed he is black. One only needs to read between the lines of YOUR comments in order to arrive at the not so thinly veiled racist sentiments lurking at the core of your criticisms. I suspect some of YOU are all still reeling at Kimball’s decision in ’78 to allow blacks to receive the priesthood. Yet, we all know BYU’s football team certainly profited from the decision).
Furthermore, if I were to follow out the assumptions of most of these arguments to their teleological finale (Jim, you really are astounding with your “lunatics running the asylum” logic), I could use the same incoherent and undernourished devices to argue that we condemn ALL Latter Day Saints for the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857 – now, wasn’t there was an attempted cover up by the Mormon church, first pinning the blame on the Indians, then finally settling on church member John D. Lee as the scapegoat? I needn’t remind YOU that 120 men, women and children perished on that day, all led by Mormon militiamen. Mine is a ridiculous counter-argument, isn’t it? Why yes it is. But please, read on and YOU will see the irony reflected in YOUR own statements. Was it not assistant historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Richard Turley, who had this to say about the incident:
“Our feeling was we just had to face it head on, let people deal with the truth and not with mythology. I know it’s very uncomfortable, and I’ve gotten a lot of hate mail. People have said, ‘Why peel off the scab?’ It’s because the wound is not healing. It needs major surgery.”
Truth in a politician or a leader in the Mormon Church about moments of indiscretion? This I find absolutely commendable in both Turley and Obama, not to mention the fact that I believe Obama will be one of the best leaders our country has ever known, black or otherwise. After all, what was it that Pope said: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.” I honestly don’t see much divinity coming out of THIS camp, judging from the comments of your readers here Russell. I doubt this will make it through your filter and onto your page, but I felt it had to be said.
If my comments do make it onto this page, my task for YOU who’ve posted before me is that YOU stand in front of the mirror, look YOURSELF deep into YOUR soul, and tell me there is nothing for which YOU would like to be forgiven. And if you come up with nothing, then you truly are a GOD among MEN.
So, am I a bad person because I was a misguided and experimented with things I knew were illegal and of great danger to me in my youth?
Great! Now, the great half black/half white POTUS can endulge his passion with a big old doobie in the oval office…similar in size to Clinton’s cigar but much more AWESOME with Marvin Gaye’s Superhits! He can have all the Kona Gold brought in on AF-1 when he visits Hawaii to see his “homies” (did I even spell that right?)
I’m not the least bit surprised. Americans stopped caring a long time ago when they abdicated their opinions to the talking heads of the media. Most voters are so stupid, they didn’t even know the facts about what was going on. They just did what the “voices” told them to do. They heard “Tax Cut” and “Change”. What BO will give us is actually a “tax rebate” (not a cut)…he kept saying “net tax decrease”…not the same by a long shot. Enjoy your little hit of “crack” tax decrease kiddies.
Axelrod and Co. knew exactly what they were doing. He told BO to jump on his back 10 years ago and that he would “take him places.” Well, they played the willing media like a $50 whore and we are the ones who will end up getting “screwed”.
So true - congrats PrezElect Obama! Maybe with the President’s salary he might do a Tony Montana in the Oval Office haha
I believe Jim covered everything. The fact is, he committed a crime. As soon as the word cocaine is mentioned, mental instability should follow. He claims it is all in his past and he’s looking forward. Lets see the truth behind this however. Barack Obama is STILL showing a substance abuse. He currently smokes cigarettes which shows reliance on a drug today. Although cigarettes aren’t nearly as abusive as cocaine, it should still show how apparent his need for a drug is.
Lets understand before i release my next comment that i was not in support of Palin as VP (But did vote McCain). If inexperience and a shopping spree are her biggest skeletons in her closet then how can people POSSIBLY support Obama. Drug use is a serious issue. Drug abuse is not even the only speculation of shady things in his past but those are separate issues.
According to Wikipedia, “Relapse rates among cocaine users is in the range of 94-99%, the highest among all common drugs of abuse.” I say he will relapse within his first 60 days as president. If I was Ahmadinejad, I would greet the new pres with a bag full of the white stuff. That would make negotiations a little more fruitful for Tehran, when the two meet face-to-face without preconditions. Let’s call him President Barack “Cocaine” Obama.
So to the republicans. This is old news but your candidate’s wife Mrs. McCain, through an organization she helped found, was stealing drugs which were meant for third world countries. I think we need to stop punishing people for being poor.
For goodness sakes, we have endured eight LONG years of a man who admitted he was a drunk for the first 40 years of his life. Now we know why he has no brain cells left.
Addiction is a behavior and not a disease. As long as Obama believes being president is more important than some benefit he might derive from cocaine, he will function fine under the stress of being president. The same silly arguments were made about president Bush’s earlier use and abuse of alcohol. Both Bush and Obama illustrate that drugs do not force people to do anything, and they do not cause addiction. People take drugs for a variety of reasons, and when they value something more than there continuing use of drugs, alcohol, or gambling, they will stop their destructive behaviors or moderate their use. For free information on addiction, visit jbmyers.net.
i am teenage voter, and i completely understand where obama is coming from. he was a kid, and he experimented with things. this also gives a man like this an edge because he not only sees the outlook of other young people, but also can personally attest to the dangers of a very tangible problem in america. he is not preaching from a high horse. the fact that obama used cocaine simply shows the environment that he overcame, and the fact that is like everyone else, a saint who walked with sinners.
why should phelps be charged with pot use based on a picture but obama admitted that he did coke and marijuana and not be charged thats messed up
Now that Phelps is in the news for possibly smoking pot lets see how fast the media drops this. He said he was sorry and it was a mistake. He was about the same age as the President when the president was smoking pot and doing cocaine. It seems hypocritical to tell anyone that doing drugs is wrong.
There is already hundreds of times more coverage on Phelps. I don’t see how the coverage could ever be called fair.
So what you’re saying is if Sarah Palin admitted she snorted cocaine it would be a non starter and the news would simply ignor the news as no news at all?
Wrong message. Most kids would think “hay…this guy did and and he turned out fine….this is exactly the opening i’d been looking for….”
He couldn’t keep it suppressed which means he should not have run for any public office.
Look where we are now???? Thankz OBAMA LOVERS!!! YOU KILLED US>>><<<<
When a work of art is under construction, it doesn’t always look so nice. But once it is done… the best works of art can amaze even the most stubborn of critics.
Barack Obama is leading a global work of art. In the most powerful position of the world, he presents systematic policies that are fair, sustainable, and honest.
Everything he is doing right now is everything he campaigned on:
-Environmental policy reform
-Energy reform
-Healthcare reform
-Education reform
-Tax reform
(change)
I like this change: I think that Barack is building a world that many still dismiss as impossible.
His sustainable systems promote the success of those who can cooperate best. If you fight a sustainable system, then you are only hurting yourself. You are scratching at your environment, and poisoning the civilization you have borrowed from your children.
At 20 years young, I am inspired by Barack Obama’s sincere service. And I am sincerely devoting my life to continuing his legacy!
you are all a bunch of idiots.
Yeah you’re correct Lance Legel. Barack is building a world that many still dismiss as impossible. Who would have thought he would spend the most money in the first hundred days than any other President in history. He’s already made a mess for generations to come by doing this. If I was Obama? I would take those trillion dollars, pay off everyone’s mortgage in the USA, thee banks then wouldn’t go under and people would have the extra money every month to go shopping for that new car, or clothes, or whatever and the economy would quickly bounce back! Why did this scenario not happen? Because it’s not about the people of America, it’s about special intrests. The banks were crooks who should be in jail now and they get a bail out??? Is this serious? Unfortunately you being 20 years old as well as most young America, got fish hooked. Let me know in 20 years if you are the same liberal as you are today once you’ve got beaten over the head with what Obama is putting in place today.
FOR “MARY”
Your comments are well within the parameters of absurd. “he didn’t salute the flag?” Well, he wasn’t in uniform. The second “statement” is pure crap. Do you ever think before you expel this sort of flatus? (fart)
Using cocaine is not a “mistake”! It is a well thought out deliberate act and a violation of the law. I do not want a president that “made mistakes along the way”. I want a president that has lived a moral, lawful life and never touched illegal drugs like Bush and Obama. Both Bush and Obama are cocaine snorting morons. I am much older than Obama yet I have never touched illegal drugs in my life.
I’m sorry if I come off as snarky, Randall, but do you understand the definition of “mistake”? Mr. Obama stands by the truth today: indeed, he described his use of cocaine as his “greatest moral failure”.
I must acknowledge that Mr. Obama is by no means perfect. But I could not ask for a better president of our United States.
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