It’s the Vice President’s family. After the election, the VP pretty much disappears. VP Cheney was a notable exception, but even he was on the lowdown for the most part.
“Bush also got hammered for his cocaine use and his wild child days, I don’t see the same happening to Obama even though he admits it in his book. Do you?”
How much crap did Clinton get about pot use? The difference I see is that Clinton tried to trivialize what he did, and got creamed. Bush tried to deny it, and got creamed. Obama put his flaw out there for everyone to see and described it as a stupid thing to do and a learning experience.
In politics, it generally isn’t the crime, but the attempts to cover it up.
Agreed, good point.
This is what gets me
The politicians themselves have no problem rationalizing their own use, how it wasn’t that bad, how they don’t deserve to be in prison.
But if they catch ME doing coke, I get locked up.
Behavior like that is what gets you thrown up against a wall and shot eventually.
Hell I got locked up for not paying an expired registration ticket once! Texas doesn’t mess around =)
a coke snorter?!?!? now she is qualified to be president.
****Is it ok to do in your early 20’s?
Bush also got hammered for his cocaine use and his wild child days, I don’t see the same happening to Obama
As you eloquently pointed out, age is a factor. Bush was in his 40’s during his “wild child” days. Obama was a teenager still in high school. Also Obama came clean about it; Bush did not. Big difference, as you pointed out.
Besides there were plenty of those on the right who went after Obama’s drug use- Sheehan, O’Rielly, Hannity, Giuliani to name a few
Obama probably benefited from Clinton and Bush before him getting the public used to presidential drug use.
Yeah they left the Palin kids alone huh?
Not kids of Liberals. BK’s “100 days of grace” is over.
Not true, comrade. The post is more a comment on our press and its inadequacies, which I intend to fully and completely make even more inadequate through my own inadequacies as a journalist, than anything else. I don’t think you can find a comment against our president and his cadre since the day after the election, if I’m not mistaken.
But don’t you think the crickets chirping and the general susurration of the media says a bit about the media, in this instance? Why, all of a sudden, the need for probity and rectitude in journalism? Granted, it would be nice if that actually were in play, but I suspect it really isn’t the case.
T.
Obama probably benefited from Clinton and Bush before him getting the public used to presidential drug use.
Now THAT was a good response. Appropriately disdainful of both sides and trenchant.
T.
Besides there were plenty of those on the right who went after Obama’s drug use- Sheehan, O’Rielly, Hannity, Giuliani to name a few
And me. But I see the light, now. We need to legalize all of them. It’s just a historical accident that they’re illegal and tobacco isn’t, after all.
T.
jack, you know what they say …“Don’t Mess with Texas!”
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Holy heck, it’s not like this isn’t Gov. Bush’s (Florida) drug addict daughter.
That’s true. It’s more like the Vice-President’s cocaine-snorting daughter. But, they’re both druggies and daughters, so they have that in common, I guess.
T.
a lot of great men and women have been druggies, alcoholics, gays, perverts, and so on
now if only our presidents were great men too…
That’s true. It’s more like the Vice-President’s cocaine-snorting daughter. But, they’re both druggies and daughters, so they have that in common, I guess.
T.
“I wouldn’t expect a press release on an allegation that Obama was an alien even if it was in several media reports.”
Well, he may not really be an alien, but he does seem to have come from another world (cue Twilight Zone music).
Presidents are the same men as men are the same everywhere on the planet. It’s when we fail to realize that, that we begin to say “hey…President so-and-so is a lot worse than the guy before him.” Historians – who are supposedly to be regarded as impartial arbiters of just who or what is a “success” – let their own biases color their opinions the same as we all do. None of this kerfuffle over that coke-snorting tramp and Delaware deb who’s just one step away from running a meth lab (from what I hear from my impeccable journalist sources 
seems to have really exploded on the national scene.
Have we in the media (I appointed myself a member, and I printed up a press pass, and everything) now come to realize that just about everybody’s got a right to privacy? Or is there something more politically motivated going on? I’m just asking.
T.
I’m ok with all of the drugs our ‘leaders’ have used.
I’m not ok with how they treat the average guy on the street doing the same things they do.
and no I don’t think anyone in power should have a right to complete privacy otherwise those of us under their rule have no way of knowing what is going on.
We hardly know as it is.
Have we in the media (I appointed myself a member, and I printed up a press pass, and everything) now come to realize that just about everybody’s got a right to privacy? Or is there something more politically motivated going on? I’m just asking.
T.
For the love of God you have all missed the point…by a mile! Pat Travers’ best song isn’t “Snortin’ Whiskey” it is “Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights”.
"Not kids of Liberals. BK’s “100 days of grace” is over. "
Leftist. Of course it’s ok to slam the other parties kid. Proof number 8765440 that both parties are bad and the zombies who follow them walk a fine line.
For the love of God you have all missed the point…by a mile! Pat Travers’ best song isn’t “Snortin’ Whiskey” it is “Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights”.
At least you finally got it. Merci, Monsieur!!
T.