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Question by Guess Who: Should Obama’s illegal use of cocaine be a issue in this campaign?
it is a felony and is it yet another item on the long list of bad choices he has made?
We know it’s true because he himself confessed it, yet is confessing to committing a felony by any means a excuse to be abolished of the consequences of it?
I don’t think it is a good example for our youth should this be a issue?…thanks
Marijuana & cocaine are not quite the same.
Dark Fantasy …I have never read were Bush or Clinton said they used cocaine marijuana perhaps but not cocaine …link please, thanks
Ethel M…again prescription drugs and cocaine quite different ones a FELONY
Best answer:
Answer by Dark Fantasy
It wasn’t an issue when Bush or Clinton did it.
What do you think? Answer below!
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Didn’t seem to be an issue with Bush
Only if there is reason to believe he’s still on it. We have had many reasons to believe Bush is still boozing and doing coke, but the media says NOTHING about that.
Sarah Palin has admitted to use of Marajuana….bring it up….I don’t care.
well your definatly not welcome. stop hatin on 08AMA just cuz hes gonna win
tRoll. LIAR!
Only if we can Use Mrs. McCain’s druggie habit.
“I don’t think it is a good example for our youth”
The youth’s idols are all coked up Hollywood celebrities and rappers to begin with…I don’t think 1 previously coked up politician is going to taint the already tainted youth.
It’s not an issue at all. Bush was boarderline alcohol, was that an issue?
no link = no credibility
I was going to answer but “Dark” said it best.
It is amazing that it hasn’t been made and issue. Bush was attack in the 2000 campaign for the implication and there is even some suggestion that Obama DEALT drugs to his friends and some associates.
Can you imagine if John McCain had admitted to doing drugs. The double standard is almost laughable.
It is not an issue because he doesn’t use cocaine.
No, not an issue.
You’ve inhaled too much fairy dust.
Americans don’t care about your people’s personal habit they want someone who can lead this country into prosperity
Personally, I think the actual issues that will affect Americans are what really matter in an election. I don’t care about what a candidate did many years ago, I care about what the candidate will do for our country if elected.
Anyone here who didn’t drink underage or try drugs of some sort in his/her youth, raise your hand!
HE NEEDS THE TAX MONEY TO BUY A CARTEL-SSMOORT
This crap comes up every election year and it never affects anyones vote. Who cares that he did drugs when he was a teenager. Hell, most teens today experiment with drugs. Get over it.
I bet you didn’t have a problem with Bush’s drug use.
Oh, please! He was a teenager! Let’s talk about Palin’s or Mrs. McCain’s drug use as ADULTS!
And the fact that Obama writes about how drugs are bad and don’t lead to productive lives, he sets a good example for why kids shouldn’t try them.
Why focus on this when there are so many better reasons not to vote for him?
should McCain abusing his wife be a real issues this campaign?
It wasn’t for Bush.
I think it should give hope to any addict. If you clean up your act before it’s too late, you can still achieve great things.
Non Issue
No you are wrong.
It’s only a felony if YOU ARE CONVICTED. There is a difference. Please stop the lies.
He was in school not an excuse but not an argument, please.
No, it won’t hurt. He was up front and honest about it, and wrote about it years ago before he entered the senate race. Besides, W was a coke head, and CLinton a pothead.
Those who live in glass houses….
Didn’t seem to concern you when it was Dubya.
And he actually has a criminal record for substance abuse.
Your claim that marijuana and cocaine are not quite the same is hopelessly inconsistent. You make the point that using cocaine is illegal – so is using marijuana.
Wow, he admitted to that twelve years ago, way to go with the breaking news story, y’all are really starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel now.
Bush loved the coke. No big deal.
Of course it should be, but there are so many other much more dangerous things in his background that definetly should be an issues but are casually disregarded because factcheck.com says so.
GET IT STRAIGHT ANNENBERG OWNS FACTCHECK _ OBAMA AND WILLIAM AYERS OWN THIS SITE!!!!!!! A DOMESTIC TERRORIST WHO HATES AMERICA AND GOT OFF ON A TECHNICALITY IS THE ONE FEEDING YOU INFORMATION. THERE IS ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MCVEIGH AND AYERS AND THAT IS MCVEIGH DIDNT GET AWAY WITH IT>
*raises my hand*
I never used and never drank under age.
And I think that this is the least of my problems with Obama.
Since it was in the past… a far past…. then I don’t care. I didn’t care about Bush’s cocaine or alcohol use either. The past is the past.
How about we focus on the fact that Obama graduated at the top of his class from college and Palin at the bottom. Isn’t that more important than kids experimenting with drugs in college over 20yrs ago.
Get over it.
BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!
In his memoir “Dreams from My Father,” Barack Obama describes his troubled teenage years. “Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack though,” he recalls, though he admits he came close to trying heroin at the urging of a friend who shot up in front of him.
He was deterred by the image “of an air bubble, shiny and round like a pearl, rolling quietly through my vein and stopping my heart,” he says. “Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.”
Obama’s drug use went on for at least a few years, though he is noticeably vague in describing exactly when it began, how extensive it was, or when it ended.
At least one of his friends was arrested for drug possession; another had a mental breakdown after one too many acid trips. But Obama has been reticent to reveal the extent of his illegal activities – and the media haven’t cared enough to pursue the question.
Past drug use by presidential candidates was considered a legitimate subject of inquiry for Bill Clinton (who, famously, “didn’t inhale”) and George W. Bush.
News organizations devoted considerable investigative resources in 2000 to track down unsubstantiated rumors about Bush’s alleged cocaine use – and printed the accusation, even when there was no credible evidence that it was true.
In his memoir, he gives the most telling explanation of how he has gotten away with avoiding discussions of his drug use. It was the same technique he used on his mother when she confronted him in his senior year of high school:
“I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn’t do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.”
Of Course It Should, and it should have been addressed months ago.
Too late now, he’s on board and that train has left the station.
McCain needs to tell voters how he can bring this country around, set it back on the path to prosperity.
This Voter is tired of the personal slams, tell me what YOUR Plan Is!
Cocaine is not beer or marijuana. So yes it should be,