Reply #24: It's not the issue itself , it's the way it was brought up.

[Forkboy]

He brought it up awhile ago, and suddenly just now it's important to vet him? This is a true "concern" type issue if there ever was one.

What did you think of this thread that was locked?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3828083&mesg_id=3828083

Does the vetting excuse still hold up? Is it so hard to see how both issues are being used against a democrat ?

This stuff does the Republicans work for them. I don't like anyone doing this stuff, and if you search my posts you'll find I've defended Clinton, Edwards and Obama pretty equally. Hillary and Obama are at the bottom of my list. I would like to see someone else win besides them, but not by means like this. Stories like this are used to manipulate us (and don't think anyone is immune from that, myself included) and I don't like it coming from our side anymore than from the Right. In fact, I dislike it more from us, because we stand for the right things and this just cheapens the party and turns people off to politics as a whole, not just one party or the other.

Obama has spoken about it and addressed it before. He's trying to be open and honest with people for what he admits are mistakes, and instead of working with that theme to truly help people someone in the Hillary campaign has decided to use it as a cheap political ploy to smear a fellow Democrat. It's bullshit when ANYONE does it and we, and the candidates, would be better served to stick to the issues that really matter. There's war, global warming, genocide in Darfur, a clusterfuck in the middle east...do you really give a shit if Obama did drugs in high school? I don't care if he drank the damn bongwater.

None of the candidates are perfect, and acting like there's only one that is is a fool's game, and we can't really afford to play it anymore. There's nothing with honest disagreements on issues and policy and past actions, but we need to be fair to all of our candidates as best we can and not buy into this kind of thing even when, or especially when, it comes from our side. It doesn't help any of us.