Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Biden is screwed

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> > What are these skeletons?  Do you mean that he actually exposed his 
> > skeletons in his memoir?  That is surprising.
>
> Yes.  Maybe if you want to run for president and not get a bunch of mud 
> thrown at you shouldn't dedicate a chapter of you memoirs about your 
> college and HS partying:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359.html
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Barack+Obama+Cocaine

Not so -- if you want to run for President, never smoke a joint or do any 
"blow."  But, if you have done those things, write a book about it at 
least 10 years before running for office.  That way it isn't news when 
your campaign starts up.

Most people know that teenagers of the 70s and 80s very often smoked 
marijuana and tried a few other drugs.  In fact, Clinton, Gore and Bush 
probably all at least smoked marijuana (even though they were a bit 
older than Obama).  So I don't think this will kill Obama's candidacy.

One weird thing about Obama - he smokes cigarettes, or so I hear.  If it 
is true, and he still smokes, he must be doing it privately so that he 
isn't photographed.

I think both of Obama's parents were deceased by the time they were his 
age.  His father died in a car accident and his mother had cancer.


> > So the Republican approach is to lie about Democrat candidates in order 
> > to discredit them?  Can't that backfire because people don't like to 
> > elect liars?  Or will the Republican candidate really get away with 
> > saying "It wasn't me."?
>
> That's right Mike, the Republicans are the only party who has ever bent 
> the truth about their opponents in an election.

"Swift Boating" should refer to outright fabrications and not just bending 
the truth.  Obama's cocaine use requires no lying.

Mike

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