Obama admits drug use in new book

[primergray]

EDIT: In a memoirs from 11 years ago

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,240992,00.html

Obama Admissions on Drug Use Could Signal New Era in Politics

WASHINGTON — The recent publicity around Sen. Barack Obama has pushed his name up the list of presidential front-runners, but his memoir of 11 years ago, in which Obama admits to using marijuana and cocaine, could push Americans to rethink what's acceptable in a presidential candidate.

A top Democratic prospect for the 2008 White House, Obama wrote about himself in "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. ... I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind," he wrote in the book.

The Illinois Democrat is the first White House contender to admit trying cocaine. In 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton said he "didn't inhale" when asked about sampling pot while a college student. Rumors flew about President Bush using cocaine. He never admitted to such experimentation, but doesn't drink alcohol after much liberal consumption as a young man.

The Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions that Obama's candor could represent a new era in politics, particularly since such revelations are not shocking to now power-wielding baby boomers.

Still, such admissions are not common for success-seeking politicians.

"This is not the kind of book you would ever expect a politician to write," GOP consultant Alex Vogel told the Post. "Anyone who has a career in politics has to be concerned with what's in their past, but there is no question that Americans have an appetite for redemption."

Obama's latest book now tops bestseller lists with 800,000 copies in print. Brisk sales of his latest book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream," demonstrate his popularity.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told the newspaper that the book shows the freshman senator is someone Americans can trust.

"I believe what the country is looking for is someone who is open, honest and candid about themselves rather than someone who seems endlessly driven by polls or focus groups," Gibbs said.

[derek840378]

a black liberal has done drugs???? what is this world coming to?

[rockota]

IT's okay, though, because he's a democrat... It's only bad for Republican's to have a past.

edit:

"I believe what the country is looking for is someone who is open, honest and candid about themselves rather than someone who seems endlessly driven by polls or focus groups," Gibbs said.

I think Obama is a sly person... I think he's actually playing a good card here that will effectively help him. I don't think he's any more honest than any other politician, but he's slick like Willy.

[CrustyJeep]

Polititians should never ever have done drugs. They are the elite, they should be above the rest of us, morally superior.



Maybe a dictator needs to appear to be superior, but in this country, politians are just people doing a damn job. I think holding them to any special standards means you don't quite get it.

[MudzerK5]

Osama is still Alive? Get that Sumbich!

[Norm]

Originally Posted by rockota

IT's okay, though, because he's a democrat... It's only bad for Republican's to have a past.

Better than the Republicans lying about it

Check out Arnolds "Pumping Iron" video fron the 70's

[Mo]

memoirs he wrote 11 years ago?

what is a 34 year old doing writing his memoirs? unless his is some self-important buffoo...



wait. nevermind.

[4Mogger]

Hussein Obama. Drug use. Black. Liberal as all hell.
I think the Dems will actually love this stuff. Afterall, the most important thing is that he IS NOT BUSH.

[qwiksilver]

Puleeze...this is the 21st century. Very few people haven't done some sort of drug even if it was some junior high pot smoking. I've only met a few people in my life under the age of 50 who haven't...and they were weird.

I would rather he say "Hell yeah I was a nightmare for my parents...and I straightened my sorry ass out."

Also, think of it this way, who better to do something about the drug trade and the drug problems in this country than someone who has been there and done that and knows how it is getting back to the real world. I prefer that to some policy wonk who tries to convince me he's holier than Jesus. Or worse, some rich boy who got his high powered daddy to expunge his record so he looks holy.

[Screwzer2]

Originally Posted by qwiksilver

Puleeze...this is the 21st century. Very few people haven't done some sort of drug even if it was some junior high pot smoking. I've only met a few people in my life under the age of 50 who haven't...and they were weird.

I would rather he say "Hell yeah I was a nightmare for my parents...and I straightened my sorry ass out."

Also, think of it this way, who better to do something about the drug trade and the drug problems in this country than someone who has been there and done that and knows how it is getting back to the real world. I prefer that to some policy wonk who tries to convince me he's holier than Jesus. Or worse, some rich boy who got his high powered daddy to expunge his record so he looks holy.

X2!

Let's see, we've had one president who admitted pot use and the worst thing he did in office was get an extramartial blow job. We've now had another president from the same generation (mine) who presents himself as holier than thou, wrecked the balanced budget, and started an optional war to repay his cronies and extract revenge for dad.

Give me the pot-smoker anyday!

[Bubba Ray Boudreaux]

Originally Posted by qwiksilver

Puleeze...this is the 21st century. Very few people haven't done some sort of drug even if it was some junior high pot smoking. I've only met a few people in my life under the age of 50 who haven't...and they were weird.

I would rather he say "Hell yeah I was a nightmare for my parents...and I straightened my sorry ass out."

Also, think of it this way, who better to do something about the drug trade and the drug problems in this country than someone who has been there and done that and knows how it is getting back to the real world. I prefer that to some policy wonk who tries to convince me he's holier than Jesus. Or worse, some rich boy who got his high powered daddy to expunge his record so he looks holy.

Seriously, you need to spend your time being on the receiving end of a Dirty Sanchez marathon cause you're too damn stupid to be discussing anything else.

Originally Posted by Screwzer2

X2!

Let's see, we've had one president who admitted pot use and the worst thing he did in office was lie under oath. We've now had another president from the same generation (mine) who presents himself as holier than thou, wrecked the balanced budget, and started an optional war to repay his cronies and extract revenge for dad.

Give me the pot-smoker anyday!

Good to see the expert chime in on, by the way, fixed part of it for you. You should spend more time drinking the bong water because your commentary on this stuff contains the collective intelligence of a rockpile................

[4runner]

I dont care what he did, I wont vote for him for prez simply because he says he wants to eliminate ALL firearms from the USA.

[Screwzer2]

Originally Posted by 4runner

I dont care what he did, I wont vote for him for prez simply because he says he wants to eliminate ALL firearms from the USA.

BS. Post up a credible link or die.

[Aces'n'8s]

Originally Posted by Screwzer2

X2!

Let's see, we've had one president who admitted pot use and the worst thing he did in office was get an extramartial blow job. We've now had another president from the same generation (mine) who presents himself as holier than thou, wrecked the balanced budget, and started an optional war to repay his cronies and extract revenge for dad.

Give me the pot-smoker anyday!

I guess you must have overlooked that slight impropriety the Clintons made concerning their land dealings in the Whitewater Scandal. Vince Foster is ashamed that you forgot about him too...

[Aces'n'8s]

Originally Posted by Screwzer2

BS. Post up a credible link or die.

Here you go old man...I just hope the print isn't too small for your faint eyesight.

Obama On Gun Control

[Screwzer2]

Originally Posted by Aces'n'8s

I guess you must have overlooked that slight impropriety the Clintons made concerning their land dealings in the Whitewater Scandal. Vince Foster is ashamed that you forgot about him too...

Oh, God its beat a dead horse time..... Whitewater was noting but a witch hunt, along with the BJ prosecution. Vince Foster is the tin-foil conspiracy theory right wing freaks like you ascribe to.

[Aces'n'8s]

Originally Posted by Screwzer2

Oh, God its beat a dead horse time..... Whitewater was noting but a witch hunt, along with the BJ prosecution. Vince Foster is the tin-foil conspiracy theory right wing freaks like you ascribe to.

So the below sentiment shouldn't be considered beating a dead horse either? Perchance, it is a mere regurgitation of the vomitus emanating from the great minds of the top Dems...

Originally Posted by Screwzer2

We've now had another president from the same generation (mine) who presents himself as holier than thou, wrecked the balanced budget, and started an optional war to repay his cronies and extract revenge for dad.