Here's the headline that caught my eye yesterday on Fox News national website:
"Clinton official: Obama's Drug History Could Hurt in November if he is Nominee"
Click here for the full story.
Okay, I know it was awhile ago when Bill Clinton ran his first successful campaign as President. I was in my early twenties. I am now quickly approaching my early forties. So, let me indulge the younger crowd here.
I remember very distinctly Bill Clinton's youthful drug experimentation being a point of contention during that campaign. Back then, voters did expect candidates to be exceptionally perfect and have no youthful mistakes in their past. I think now, we can all agree, that is unreasonable, and we are looking for the turned leaf in a person's life.
Of course, twenty years ago, Bill Clinton lied, because that is what he does. No, I didn't vote for him, can you tell? Here is how that famous lie was excused away when questioned about marijuana use, "I didn't inhale." And yet, the American public still voted for him. I didn't think the marijuana use was bad, but the lie was inexcusable. I also think the American public learned their lesson--you can't spoon feed us lies like that and expect us to just say "okie dokie!" like the public did in the early nineties.
The outtrage! They are throwing rocks at Obama about drug use! You show me anyone who has ever taken a drag on a joint of pot and not inhaled. The hypocrisy is very Clinton-esque.
Now, Barak Obama has been very candid and honest that he did do drugs in his past. He has listed them. Marijuana and "cocaine if I could afford it." He has been honest. Obama also knows his personal life will be rifled through looking for inconsistencies in that story.
As the election gets closer, I won't post a whole lot on it. There is usually so much political buzz that it truly is deafening, and I don't need to add to it. I will do little tidbits like this.
I can tell you this. I won't vote for Hillary. I don't like her. As a woman, I just stood by and watched for most of the nineties as her name got dragged through the mud by her philandering husband, culminating in Monica-gate in the oval office. I don't like that she took that like a mouse. I don't like women who tolerate infidelity from their husbands.
I also don't like that I am having flashbacks of the preposterous Clinton campaign lies that we were fed in 1992! It is stupid!
You're right, I am talking as though Bill and Hillary are the same person. Politically, they are. If there is one thing all of us can agree on during the 90's, they work and move the same politically, and we're seeing that in the "Smear Obama" statements.
I also won't vote for Obama. He has no foreign policy experience and his blanket statements on the current Middle East situation tell me he hasn't got a clue. He is very critical of Bush for putting us in the current war. I know this war has been messy. But anyone who blames Bush for it, hasn't got a clue. Extremists started this war by plowing passenger airplanes into our buildings on our soil.
From what I can tell. If he were President, he'd yank all the troops all at once and sing Kum By Ya. Want more planes to crash into towers?
Condie Rice said it best, "They were at war with us before we were at war with them." They started it, and Bush responded.
2 comments:
I agree with almost everything you said. I am touchy about infidelity issues. I think Hilary stayed with Bill to preserve her political career.
I too think Bill and Hilary are the same. You are the first person I have heard say that.
I think you're absolutely right! I think Hillary stayed with Bill because if she left him, her White House goal would be gone. I think their marriage is mostly a business/political arrangement more than anything. I will watch that closely as the campaign continues. We'll see how much Bill is by her side as the supportive campaigning spouse. Any bets out there??
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