There are some who will whisper or make louder noises about this in public, but in the solitude of the voting booth it won’t matter because lots of Boomers and those that immediately followed did the same damn thing.

Crap, I’m glad I don’t have to chronicle or admit to the things I did from 1971 – 1984.

As an admitted user, he brings a blast of fresh air to a world of hypocrites who either have done it, yet condemn it while denying having done the same (sort of like Foley on pedophilia or public homophoebs who retreat to their closet as soon as they get home),
or have never, truly done it and think they are imminently and solely qualified to direct the so-called WOD.

There’s morality and then there’s a bunch of laws that have nothing to do with morality and everything to do with trying to control other people’s lives in a manner deemed ‘legal’ by superiors. Is it any wonder why there is diminshing respect for the rule of law?

Just wait another couple of decades and see the buzz when some up and coming kid of today confesses to having smoked cigarettes indoors (gasp) and loved chicken fried in gobs of trans-fat (choke).

Plus in the context of the times, what he did may have been nothing more than a misdeamnor or petty crime, yet some would rush to judge him, or anyone else for that matter, under the artificial construct of current law.

Besides, there’s this little matter of Statutes of Limitations. If the law didn’t catch him then and is powerless to prosecute now, seems to me he ought to be free & clear of further digging on that subject as a matter of political football.

Just as the fact that someone was once a bootlegger or whatever doesn’t cause me to hold that against him politically, why should it with cocaine or any other additictive drug-user. It sure didn’t for hizzoner Marion Berry, tho I have a list of other reasons to disqualify him.

This is not the same as saying someone getting away with murder can expect the same – yeah I’m talking about Teddy-hic-Kennedy.