Reply #51: Squawk Squawk Coke-Head Chickenhawk

[DrFunkenstein]

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"Gov. George W. Bush's refusal to give a yes or no answer when asked if he had used cocaine had been old news since his first campaign for governor of Texas in 1994. Then, he rebuffed the question with the words: "What I did as a kid? I don't think it's relevant."

John F. Stacks, an executive editor of Time magazine, framed the question differently in an essay in this week's issue of the magazine. "It's not hard to comprehend a national disinclination, post-Monica, to paw over the dark moments of yet another politician's life. The problem is that using cocaine, unlike having a bit of sport with the ladies, is illegal, and the country has decided to dole out harsh prison sentences to many people caught with the drug."

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/082299wh-gop-bush.html

Kerry laid out his thinking on why Bush's drug use, if substantiated, is indeed an important issue for voters to consider:

"The issue about George Bush is not the fact that he may have used it, said Kerry. "The issue about George Bush is, how can you, if you have (used cocaine), have a position that is so at odds in terms of being a governor where you send a lot of other people who may have done the same thing you do to jail. That's the issue. It's not a question of whether he used it or when he used it, it's a question of what his policy is today and whether that's hypocritical and dangerous."

http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/123/gorequestions.shtml