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To: Farmboy who wrote (489044)	5/29/2012 10:00:16 PM
From: Honey_Bee	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793991

And I would add one more question Farmboy: Why do they keep trying to bring President Bush down to Obama's level?

To: Farmboy who wrote (489044)	5/29/2012 11:03:41 PM
From: Big Black Swan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793991

Farmboy, if Bush hadn't used drugs all he had to say was "I never used drugs". Full stop. But he never could say that, could he? Instead he answered that he would have passed a drug test by the time he was governor, that he once did stupid things when he was young and stupid etc etc. Lots of bobbing and weaving, despite many reports of people who knew him that he used pot and cocaine. You seem happy with those evasions and find them superior to Obama's admitting the truth. You're happy to draw the fine legal distinctions. Fine if that works for you. But I don't think this kind of approach works for younger voters by and large. They smell hypocrisy. IMHO conservatives (as I said to Honeybee) need to get away from this evasive pretend-and-ignore attitude. We should tell the truth, talk about lessons learned, and provide a moral compass. I have a nephew who could be a conservative but he is put off by Bush's (hence Republican in his eyes) insincerity on drugs compared to Obama's telling the truth. To him Obama is superior because "he didn't try to hide it". You and Honeybee have the opposite view I understand, but I think that's an electoral loser for us especially among the young. Feel free to have the last word. I'm tired of the topic - as well as being seen as even remotely defending Obama. But my hope is the drug thing gets buried as a non-issue by election day. It might fly among older conservatives (who I think tend to populate this board), but it's a loser issue for us in general.