Here more nada from the same guy challenging Hillary for 2008 - and he did inhale:
Barack Obama Book Admits Drug Use
Barack Obama’s admission in a 1995 memoir that he used cocaine and marijuana could come back to haunt him if he seeks the White House in 2008.
Obama’s “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” was written not long after he graduated from law school, where he was the first black person elected editor of the "Harvard Law Review."
It was reissued in 2004 and became a best seller, along with his new work “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
With “Dreams From My Father,” the Democratic senator from Illinois has become the first potential presidential candidate to admit trying cocaine, although he rejected heroin.
“Pot had helped, and booze,” he wrote about his high school days. “Maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.”
He also wrote: “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.”
Obama’s African father returned to Kenya when Barack was 2 years old, leaving him to be raised by his white mother and grandparents.
“Obama’s revelations were not an issue during his Senate campaign two years ago,” The Washington Post reports; but now, with a possible presidential campaign looming, “his open narrative of early, bad choices, including drug use starting in high school and ending in college, as well as his tortured search for racial identity, are sure to receive new scrutiny . . .
“It was not so long ago that such blunt admissions would have led to a candidate’s undoing, and there is uneasiness in Democratic circles that ‘Dreams From My Father’ will provide a blueprint for negative attacks.”
Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs sought to downplay any negative effects from the drug disclosures, telling the Post: “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.”
Obama himself has expressed no regrets about the drug disclosures. In a preface to the new edition of his memoir, he wrote that he would tell the same story today “even if certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically.” |
