I believe it is real. I knew that Laura smokes, but I didn't know that W did.
Piffle? Well, in the grand scheme of things, yeah -- one man's former bad habits are unimportant. Here's the part that bugs me: Obama's history as a smoker and a drug abuser has been and will be used against him in the campaign. How did the Bushes acquire a free pass?
It occurs to me that if someone dredged up a photo of this sort from Clinton's past, Regnery would have commissioned three books devoted to faux-psychoanalysis of the man's alleged propensity for serial prevarication...
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I'm not following your chain of thought here.
Nobody has ever made any kind of big deal out of anybody's FORMER TOBACCO habit, which was an entirely legal vice, and remains so even now.
What is an issue is somebody's (ok, OBAMA'S) CURRENT SMOKING (which, while still legal, is a bad example for Americans in general and American youth, in particular) and his admission of prior ILLEGAL use of substances.
Yes, if the right had similar pictures of HRC or WJC smoking, they very well might try to stir up some false controversy about it, and would likely succeed in some measure, given their control of the mighty Wurlitzer media echo chamber.
However, even if such an effort succeeded to a degree, it would be a stupid and inapt argument.
Perhaps that is what you're saying, and I just missed the irony?
....sofla
The pic was circulated years ago, I think I saw it on Wonkette, they mentioned something about the boys' neckties being a prep school joke. Can you explain to your readers why you employed the "drug abuser" label instead of the neutral 'drug user' label?
I guess there are legit uses of cocaine in dentistry and such. And I believe those who are dying or in intractable pain should be allowed ANY drug that offers relief. But there is no legitimate recreational use of cocaine.
I've had plenty of unhappy experience with drug abusers (family and friends), so my hard attitude is based on hard experience.
I should visit Wonkette more often.
It is possible to be a recreational user of HEROIN. There's a well known phenomenon of a certain percentage of heroin users who 'chip' or 'chippy,' 'skin-popping' the drug instead of mainlining it, reducing its effect somewhat, and its addictive potential, by a large amount. Such persons use it occasionally and not addictively, which is what is known as recreational use.
Likewise, one could recreationally use cocaine, much as one could be a 'social drinker'-- using it when it's being passed around by friends and others, and otherwise not having much use for it.
Now, to be sure, formerly large costs associated with either illicit drug limited ones ability to use these drugs, often to the point of enforcing a recreational level of use instead of abuse. Usually, if addicted and/or habituated to constant use, the habit would be paid for by theft, prostitution, or dealing the drug oneself.
This last scenario is the whispering campaign against Obama, that he perhaps trafficked in cocaine, which is recognized in law as a far more punishable crime than use or possession.
Humorously, Kitty Kelly identified Laura as the 'go-to girl' for dime bags of marijuana back in the day. More seriously, famed (and slain) big time smuggler Barry Seal supposedly had proof that Mssrs. Jeb and George W. were apprehended in a DEA sting at Opa-Locka Airport flying in several kilos of coke. Most seriously, after Reagan's near assassination, VP GHWB got himself appointed head of the intergovernmental task force in charge of international drug trafficking, and did such a great job that drug imports into this country went up by 500%. That included the providing of a secure cocaine import channel to Somacistas Meneses and Blandon, which, through Rick Barnes, created the entire crack cocaine epidemic across the country (cf: Gary Webb's Dark Alliance reporting).
...sofla
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