If nominated, will the GOP make an issue of Obama's admitted cocaine use?

[MethuenProgressive]

[Bitwit1234]

1. The thing is...they would have no right....

bush was such a user he burned out his brain..So why could they have any right to say something about Obama. But don't worry any thing any tiny thing they can dig up on the candidates they will.

[goddess40]

3. Facts don't matter to them or their followers

They can't be bogged down by the truth.

[ixion]

4. yep, having a 'right' has never stopped GOP hypocrisy

never.

* was given a pass for his years of cocaine and alcohol abuse, because IOKIYAR, however, when the shoe is on the other foot, they'll piss and moan like there's no tomorrow.

[rinsd]

44. Bush as a draft dodger who did not even fully serve with the NG attacked a war hero.

You are not dealing with reality if you think the GOP cares about the appearance of hypocrisy.

[TheUniverse]

2. If there nominee will be Huckabee or Romney almost certainly.

I would Assume Giuliani would be smart enough to stay away from personal attacks considering his own fucked up personal life.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Well...now that a "Democrat" has already done that, it will be so much more tempting for them.

Thanks Hill...

EDIT: Even Ghouliani defended Obama against these gutter-ball smears. But not Hillary and her supporters. Shame.

During a campaign stop in Chicago, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was asked if he thought Obama's comments to the students were appropriate.

"I respect his honesty," Giuliani said.

"One of the things that we need from our people that are running for office is not this pretense of perfection," said Giuliani, who has faced questions about his own personal life marked by three marriages and estrangement from his two children. He said of the candidates, "we're all human beings."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/20/giuliani-respects-obamas_n_73618.html

[MethuenProgressive]

22. The Iowa newspaper reporter was a "Democrat"? How do you know that?

It's silly for ObamaNation to blame Clinton because Obama admitted to using coke.
Silly.

[Mass]

6. Sure, as they will try to make an issue of everything they can find concerning any other candidates.

Bill's womanizing will be turned against Hillary.

Edwards's big house, changing positions between 2004 and 2007, and his haircut will be used against him.

And I am sure that they will find something against anybody else.

So, the real issue is whether ALL DEMOCRATS will be behind whoever the nominee is, or if they will repeat the GOP and MSM smears, just as some did in 2000 and 2004.

[rAVES]

7. I'm just lauging at the amount of hay been made by this "retracted statement"

[baldguy]

8. Considering Bush's alchohol & cocaine addictions have always been off limits

Of course they'll make it an issue!

[VarnettaTuckpocket]

9. Shhhh, Obama doesn't like us to talk about that!

He's waiting for the Repugs to turn him into roadkill in the general. Oh well, another 8 yrs of neocon rule. Meanwhile two top NASA climate scientists now predict all Arctic sea ice will be melted by 2012.

[MirrorAshes]

50. riiiight, which is why he was the one who said it in the first place

:eyes:

[wyldwolf]

10. they will now thanks to Hillary. They would have been too stupid to think of that themselves...

:sarcasm:

[jefferson_dem]

11. We should definitely let the Repugs set the standards for the way we Democrats "play" politics.

:sarcasm:

[wyldwolf]

13. they already have, just look at the posts on DU (and no sarcasm tag)

[jefferson_dem]

14. So you're also disgusted with the way some here are defending the sleazy attacks on Obama...

that even the Hillary camp claims to reject.

On this, we agree.

[wyldwolf]

15. I'm more disgusted with the sleazy attacks on Hillary beforehand...

...I'm rather amused, after months of some of the nuttiest and most petty attacks on Hillary, at the faux outrage and wounded piq squealing of the Obamanation.

[BeyondGeography]

12. "So what" is missing from your poll

[MethuenProgressive]

20. "So what"?? If it's a "So what", why is ObamaNation making such a big deal

out of some NH co-chair's comment?

[electron_blue]

16. Whoever is nominated, everything will be thrown at them.

For both sides. If candidates aren't already planning on how to handle it, then I've got no use for them.

[TwilightZone]

17. Of course they will. I'm amazed that anyone can believe otherwise.

They will use ANYTHING they can find against our candidates.

[madrchsod]

18. if they do obama will smack them down just

as he has been doing to hillary`s attacks. no one cares about this issue because there are far more important things in their lives than if obama did drugs when he was a kid.

[sallyseven]

24. People care about this issue.

The sheeple will be upset. Obama brought this up himself. He wrote about it. Don't blame Hillary. Seems every stupid thing that is done is her fault. Sounds like the repuks.

[MethuenProgressive]

19. 6 members of ObamaNation think the GOP won't make an issue of his past coke use?

That's a pipe dream, people.

[blm]

32. The IranContra coke he tried that was DUMPED BY THE TONS into black communities by Poppy Bush?

You mean THAT coke?

[MaineDem]

21. Of this I have no doubt

The GOP will target ANYTHING they can.

[MethuenProgressive]

27. Ayup.

Sure as you're born.

[Skip Intro]

23. The question is, when they do, will the annointed one's tantrums make them stop?

my guess is, hell no

[Stop Cornyn]

25. Where's cali in this thread?

[Clintonista2]

26. I'm wondering the same thing. She's usually the first one to complain about threads like this...

after creating 100 similar topics beforehand.

[MethuenProgressive]

28. ObamaNation is too busy with their Faux Outrage thread-a-thon.

All that kicking and rec-ing is quite tiring, I imagine.

[Stop Cornyn]

48. LOL!

[hedgehog]

29. No, they will go after him over the missing lapel pin and not

saluting a non-existent flag during the national anthem.

[Forkboy]

30. Yes, because they're shitheads. What's the Hillary campaign's excuse?

Let the republicans do their own sleazy work. We shouldn't be doing their job for them. :eyes:

[MadBadger]

31. If its Rudy...I say no.

[MethuenProgressive]

33. If it's Rudy he'll mention how he cleaned up Time Square crackheads, repeating it a million times.

Attacking him by innuendo.

[MadBadger]

41. Well Rudy already came out in support of Obama

When Obama told the HSers about his drug use, Rudy commended him for his honesty.

[Perky]

34. Sure...it is fair game but will be a non starter with the voters

[mtnsnake]

35. The GOP will have a field day. They'll make 2008 as being Mr Clean vs Mr Cocaine

It will be a field day for them, only beause they don't have to prove Obama really did it. It's already in the books that he used.

What the rightwing propaganda machine will do with this is they'll have half the country believing that Obama will be under the influcence while he's in the WH, if elected, with his fingers ready to push the button after he has a couple more snorts. Karl Rove is licking his chops on this. Scare and fear, here we come.

[blm]

42. A black teen tried some cheap IranContra cocaine Bush1 dumped by the TONS into black communities?

Let's HAVE that debate.

[Kucinich4America]

45. Only if you remember to include the fact that the coke came into this country

....through Mena Arkansas.

[MethuenProgressive]

36. 12 members of ObamaNation says the GOP won't use this issue?

That's interesting - who the hell do they think they'll face in the GOP race - Jesus??

[Lucinda]

37. It's that "audacity of hope" thing

and being totally clueless about the Republican party and elections

[blm]

47. Obama: Yes I sampled some of the cheap IranContra cocaine Bush1 provided by the tons

to black communities throughout the 80s and 90s. Along with most other black teens who were targeted.

The people of my community are grateful to the generosity of all the Republicans and even some Democrats who long supported and protected that criminal operation of President Bush.

[proudmoddemo]

38. I posted a poll on a forum:

I belong to an interest group forum that has both liberals and conservatives in it. It's an interesting place, it definitely leans right, though about a third of us are liberals. The results as of 2 pm.

"If a candidate admits to past drugs use and says they have changed their life, is it an issue?"

yes. 1
no. 12
Depends 4
Don't care 6

So while they GOP may use it, it may not be that effective.

[MethuenProgressive]

40. "it may not be that effective." It depends on how low they go.

Willie Horton. Swiftboaters.

[AlinPA]

39. Yes and Fox "News" would run stories about every day.

[Kucinich4America]

43. The 'Pukes will make an issue out of any ridiculous shit that they can find.

Although they would look really silly floating teenage drug use as an issue after having a KNOWN cokehead in the White House for 8 years.

[MethuenProgressive]

46. Absolutely.

I can only imagine how low they'll go with this one...

[loveangelc]

49. of course they will

I don't really think it will stick since he's already been open about it.

[ihelpu2see]

51. but it will not matter Obama will beat all republicans in the field!! GoBama!

[penguin7]

52. The bottom line will really be racism.

I saw the underhanded way the media destroyed Carol Mosely Braun.

I think she was one of the better senators, but the media took her apart. It was racism by the media but never overt.

[krkaufman]

53. No more than Bill Clinton's blue dress, Hillarycare, the cackle, ...

... BushClintonBushClinton, etc.

What say we nominate a candidate based on what we want in a President, and not on what we fear Republican hate-mongers might say during the campaign.

[MethuenProgressive]

54. 14 members of ObamaNation think the GOP won't make an issue of his drug use?

I had no idea ObamaNation was on a different planet....

[MNDemNY]

55. Delusional, they are.