Junkie. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection. And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 87 Aug 1, 1996
"Ok, look, you know, when I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
Barack Obama
Confessing to drug use to audience of US magazine editors, November 2006.
"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."
-- Barrack Obama, 1995
How can Rand Paul's college antics not matter, yet the antics of Obama do matter? Granted, they matter much more in KY where Rand is running.
I, too, for curiousity have wondered about Obama's college financing, grades, transcripts, etc., and even many of my Democrat friends are astounded at the lack of widespread knowledge (compared to Clinton and Bush). I have always wondered why the GOP didn't make this an issue in the campaign, unless they didn't want Palin or McCain's college records an issue. I'd imagine McCain's might have been off limits since he went to Annapolis (military records).
If I recall correctly, McCain was as big a mess up as JFK.
JFK had Joe and the democrats to help him out and I believe McCain's day was an Admiral. If again I recall correctly McCain got all over Billy Cunningham for ask questions about BHO past and calling him by his middle name.
People were aksing about Obama's college transcripts and such - but the mainstream media was so in the tank for Obama that they pretended that it didn't matter.
McCain was too busy trying to prove what a nice guy he is and was too sensitive to the liberal characterization of Repulicans as big meanies - so he came out and told everyone to play nice - instead of asking for Obama's records.
And you know about McCain mess up, how?
McCain's dad was an admiral. It may have helped get him into Annapolis, but it didn't and couldn't keep him there. It would not have saved him from washing out of flight school.
Is there a big problem with a father - JFK's or McCain's - helping their son?
And what does this have to do with Rand Paul?
It may matter to the people of Kentucky.
Doesn't matter to me at all.
Obama occupies the most powerful office in the land and has the power to affect all our lives.
Paul doesn't and won't.
So why don't we know anything about Obama's college "antics"?
I recall reading about him after he was freed from Vietnam.
Also had a friend who went through flight school at the same time as he did in Texas, who said much about him, not very good.
Also when he ran for senator the first time some came up about him.
Just look at the amount of planes he crashed.
Read his own book, it give a lot of it.
Here is a little from the paper, I'm sure if you want you can find much on a search deal.
No, not as long as they aren't getting special privilege that other people can't get or if others are being hurt by the actions.
Tom Vol had said,"I have always wondered why the GOP didn't make this an issue in the campaign, unless they didn't want Palin or McCain's college records an issue. I'd imagine McCain's might have been off limits since he went to Annapolis (military records)."
A light went off in my head of what I had heard in the past and read, Tom might have been onto something.