DC on Drugs

It's been a hell of a couple of days here. After a horrendous evening yesterday, I had a flat out schedule today. It's 9:00 and I haven't even read the news yet. But I did want to mention this item from the other day briefly. I wasn't that interested in this story about Obama admitting he smoked pot and used cocaine as a youth. I mean, big whoop. Who didn't? Personally I consider it a plus that he admitted it but I don't hold any great hope he's going to become a champion of drug policy reform. And why it was on page one is beyond me.

I wasn't going to blog about it until I stumbled across this delicious item.

As political media buzzed about whether or not Senator Barack Obama's admission eleven years ago that he used cocaine as a teenager would hurt his political prospects, Fox News ran a segment on "Obama's Cocaine Confession." Their conversation took an unusual turn, however, when Fox reporter Kirian Chetry said President Bush had also admitted to using cocaine.

Obama "talks very candidly, as did our current president, who admitted to using cocaine, correct?
[Others demur] Well, who wrote, somebody wrote in a book -- well, he admitted that he had an alcoholic, he had a drinking problem. Who was it who said they witnessed him using cocaine? It was somebody who wrote a book..."

As her colleagues tried to talk her down from the line of discussion, Chetry responded, "Okay, okay, fine, but there were questions about the current president and whether he used cocaine or not as a young guy, but there's something about turning your life around...that people can accept."

A clip of the exchange is available for viewing at the link to the orginal Raw Story post. High caliber political reporter there. I don't know who this person is but I'll bet poor ole Kirian got called on the carpet for that one.