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The Audacity of Dope
The Clinton campaign is pulling an audacious move in New Hampshire, trying to use Barack Obama's (non-controversial) admission of past drug use as an electoral wedge, threatening that Republicans will manage to turn it into an issue. Yeah, sure, whatever.
Your husband may or may not have inhaled (it probably depends on the definition of 'did'), but don't go thinking that we're all drinking the Clinton Kool-Aid, Hillary.
Here's the reality: according to polling data, as of 2002, roughly half of Americans had smoked pot at some point (and nearly all of them inhaled). I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that virtually all of the serious contenders in both parties have experimented at one point or another. At least Barack Obama is being honest and human. If Hillary Clinton's campaign thinks either of those attributes is a negative, they should be more open about that fact.
Your husband may or may not have inhaled (it probably depends on the definition of 'did'), but don't go thinking that we're all drinking the Clinton Kool-Aid, Hillary.
Here's the reality: according to polling data, as of 2002, roughly half of Americans had smoked pot at some point (and nearly all of them inhaled). I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that virtually all of the serious contenders in both parties have experimented at one point or another. At least Barack Obama is being honest and human. If Hillary Clinton's campaign thinks either of those attributes is a negative, they should be more open about that fact.
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Matt Singer
At the ripe age of 24, Matt Singer dabbles in online writing and offline organizing, running a progressive non-profit in his home state of Montana. When not politically engaged, Matt can be found cooking, reading, playing guitar, hiking, and skiing.
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Dave
6:43PM Dec 12th 2007
Dude! Awesome title, LOL!
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boredwell
5:58PM Jan 12th 2008
Coughing it up.
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(0) D. L. GRAHAM
7:53PM Dec 12th 2007
SNOW BALLING FROM A "SNOWMAN"?
Here we go again, the front man for the Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, Attack Machine, in New Hampshire, one Billy Shaheen, not throwing mud as much as throwing "Snow"? Give me a break, Barack Obama is being made out to be just another over his head (inexperience) Black, with a drug habit, and may have been not only using but selling? That some how Barack should not only wait his turn but shouldn't even ever have a turn?
This from William Jefferson Clinton's hit man, when Slick Willie was know as the "Snowman" in the Arkansas State House? One lie and attack after another. Any method any way to STOP THE DREAM! Kill the Dream, send the Black back to the Negro League.
It is time to end this. It is time for the entire American Community to demand a CHANGE! Your Black, your a Drug User, to the extent that you can never be of any social purpose! WRONG! The Clinton's have to be stopped, and the politics of destruction ended.
It is time for Black and White together to reject the Clinton politics of winning at any cost politics. The politics of division, of destruction, its time to leave the past and the Clinton's and move foward into the future with politics of HOPE, and Change with Obama.
Very Respectfully,
D. L. Graham
El Cajon, San Diego, CT. CA.
Here we go again, the front man for the Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton, Attack Machine, in New Hampshire, one Billy Shaheen, not throwing mud as much as throwing "Snow"? Give me a break, Barack Obama is being made out to be just another over his head (inexperience) Black, with a drug habit, and may have been not only using but selling? That some how Barack should not only wait his turn but shouldn't even ever have a turn?
This from William Jefferson Clinton's hit man, when Slick Willie was know as the "Snowman" in the Arkansas State House? One lie and attack after another. Any method any way to STOP THE DREAM! Kill the Dream, send the Black back to the Negro League.
It is time to end this. It is time for the entire American Community to demand a CHANGE! Your Black, your a Drug User, to the extent that you can never be of any social purpose! WRONG! The Clinton's have to be stopped, and the politics of destruction ended.
It is time for Black and White together to reject the Clinton politics of winning at any cost politics. The politics of division, of destruction, its time to leave the past and the Clinton's and move foward into the future with politics of HOPE, and Change with Obama.
Very Respectfully,
D. L. Graham
El Cajon, San Diego, CT. CA.
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(0) Ashley Jo
10:43PM Dec 12th 2007
I guess as one of those few people who have never “experimented with drugs or alcohol” I am a minority here. However, I do not have a problem voting for someone who has tried drugs, realized the err, correct it, and now vilifies it as the illegal nusence it is. I do have a problem voting for a person that jokes about their drug use and acts as though it was his right of passage into politics. A statement he made really bothered me. In my own words: he used drugs…realized that others had worse lives.. So he stopped and became an activist…that led him to politics. Where were the words: illegal, causes crime, ruins lives, bad, etc…. ?
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