If you are going to assume office in a country where drugs are illegal, some people are going to ask if you and your loved ones have towed the same line that you are asking everyone else to tow. Obviously, the McCains think its ok for important folk to get high and deceive people as long as they issue the “mistakes were made” statement and shuffle off to rehab on cue. Obama, on the other hand, just got high when he was younger. Who do you think fucked up the most, Ms. Rubin.

Bad choice of words in the headline IMO.

Her drug addiction isn’t the story at all. The story is the cover up, misuse of authority and unequal treatment under the law.

Point taken that their voting records don’t always reflect so well on either of them.

My point was to show the hypocrisy of both parties and that the the real subject of our condemnation should be their voting records. Obama is an admitted user of coke and pot. He broke the law. Like Zeb, I don’t hold it against him because…well because it’s a stupid law. So did W and so did Clinton and I’m sure we can go on and on. As far as Obama doing something outright criminal, he did vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act and to protect telecoms from lawsuits for forking over private information the request of the Bush Administration. I think that is criminal. And McCain voted for the War in Iraq, the Patriot Act, his horrid Campaign Reform Act, etc.

What I did not make clear in my first post is that those examples were actions that did not hurt the country as a whole, just a few individuals. But the examples of their voting records as stated above should be the focus of their character flaws and poor judgement because that hurts everyone.

Anyway, I’m at work and rushed through the post and made ass of myself. Sorry.

So, refresh my memory–when exactly did Obama use his political connections to spare Wright a lengthy jail term? Oh yeah, never.

Anyway, this is getting really old. If you’re going to respond to a criticism of something McCain or Palin actually did, you should do so w/ an example of something Obama actually did, not just the mere fact that he knows somebody (Wright, Ayers) with disagreeable views.

Google Graeme Frost

Reprimand

In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie, a male escort whom Frank had befriended after hiring him through a personal advertisement, claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank’s apartment when he was not at home. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year and reported the incident to the House Ethics Committee after learning of Gobie’s activities. After an investigation, the House Ethics Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity.[2] Regarding Gobie’s more scandalous claims the report by the Ethics Committee concluded, “In numerous instances where an assertion made by Mr. Gobie (either publicly or during his Committee deposition) was investigated for accuracy, the assertion was contradicted by third-party sworn testimony or other evidence of Mr. Gobie himself.”[3]

The New York Times reported on July 20, 1990 that the House Ethics Committee recommended “that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute.”[4] Attempts to expel or censure Frank, led by Republican member Larry Craig (who himself was later embroiled in his own homosexual scandal) failed.[5][6] Rather, the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him.[7] This condemnation was not reflected in Frank’s district, where he won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.

http://www.jibjab.com/view/154381

I can see where you are coming from in regards to creating sympathy for Cindy, but I think the bigger point, which Radley mentioned, is John is in favor of putting the screws to any other folk not named Cindy McCain for the same behavior. I know there are different sets of rules for different folks in this country, but it doesn’t mean it’s right.

[Gosinski] is still viewed with enmity by some in the drug investigation, including the Johnsons, who hold him responsible for the doctor’s troubles.

So the doctor’s own actions aren’t responsible for his troubles? Check.

John McCain, fifth from the bottom of his Naval Academy class of 899 members, and widely known as an adulterer, married Cindy one month after he divorced his first family. Cindy’s drug theft charge.

These two families in the White House would provide fodder for the tabloids for years to come.

Such a terrible example for our young people.

There’s nothing that Dems, independents or people who just hate rich assholes getting special breaks can do about the media spin, at least at first. If the public outcry is wide and deep enough then even that narrative will change somewhat.

PS And by the way, could you see yourself typing “if you push it, all you’ll do is create sympathy for Obama. Yes, really. Don’t be tone deaf on this” if the situation were reversed? Not a hope in hell. You’d be talking about how it impacted on Obama, how it finished him as a candidate, and so on.

Can’t you see how your post is a perfect reflection of just how distorted free thinking in the USA has become in the past eight years. Not only are corruption and cronyism so commonplace within the GOP that it’s even a question as to whether it’s a story or not, you have actually reached the point where you openly counsel not even mentioning such things at all!!!