>>I used my personal judgment, and Obama should have done likewise. Youngsters are watching. Bill Clinton's assertion that he didn't inhale is questionable at best, so I suppose Obama is right to question it.
Why can't we have leaders who 'just say no?' I don't admire irresponsible behavior unless it is completely and forthrightly repudiated. McCain and Bush both did that early on. Obama waits until he is called on it.<<
MM -
When Obama decided to dabble with drugs, the only youngsters who were watching were the other young people he was dabbling with. It would be a bit much to expect him to have decided, back then, that doing drugs would set a bad example for the youth of the future when he ran for President. He wasn't a leader then, he was just another teenager.
You may consider it a mistake. But we all make mistakes. Maybe you didn't make that one, but you made others.
Meanwhile, you are completely wrong about Obama waiting until he was called on it to repudiate his drug use. In fact, the reason we know about his drug use is that he wrote about it in one of his books (the first one, I believe), and he called it a mistake at that time.
Bush, meanwhile, has never acknowledged his drug use, and has always refused to talk about it.
- Allen |
