And wrote about it 11 years ago. Seriously, the Washington Post put it on the front page.
It’s truly the stupid and silly season.
The conventional wisdom amongst political pros is to get any scandalous material out there before the other side can use it. Now, when Obama did exactly that before he even ran for office, the WaPo treats it breathlessly.
As long as we’re clearing the air about sins of long ago: During the Vietnam war, my brother and I defecated in a church’s sanctuary.
It wasn’t an extreme form of protest — we were infants attending church with our parents and it was confined to our diapers.
But if the Washington Post one day puts that scandalous news on the front page, you read it on the Archpundit site first!
We’ve seen the stages before because we’re from here, but it’s fun to watch the national press go through it all over again.
1. Holy shit, you’ve got to hear this guy speak.
2. Holy shit, this guy was the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Everyone we talk to says he’s really smart.
3. Holy shit, in his book he talks about doing blow, this could hurt him big time.
4. Holy shit, the right is going bonkers (He’s not really black because he wasn’t decendant from slaves – Keyes, His middle name is Hussein – tv right, Holy shit he’s in our church – religious political right, He’s a false messiah and the anti-Christ – nutjob right)
5. Holy shit, everywhere you look people are wild about Barack Obama. Don’t they know he did blow and HIS MIDDLE NAME IS HUSSEIN?
6. Holy shit, he won huge.
7. Holy shit, I can’t believe I lost like that. But at the end of the day I can’t really be too upset about it because I like the guy. (Dan Hynes 2004, Hillary Clinton 2008)
Not McCain though, we all know how he gets when Barack steals his thunder. (see Ethics, WATB)
My favorite is the one of Hillary in 2008. Yeah!
[…] Sen. Obama disclosed that he tried cocaine in a 5th grade term paper his memoir many, many moons ago. That hasn’t stopped the apparently anti-Obama Washington Post from treating the rather old news as a this-just-in front page story nearly a year ago. And now, with Sen. Clinton’s numbers sliding everywhere we look, one of her surrogates is trotting it out yet again in as prime an example of concern trolling as ever there was. […]
look let us forget about the man’s bad side which if i can recollect is/was in the past and look at it that he did not lie about ever doing coke or bieng black and any other ills in the past. let us see this as the start of something new and positive in the struggle against racism. i am not taking as a black man but as a human that has respect for equal rights for all. and a big thumbs up for hillary for being so brave.
hey! was the big deal about him being a muslim. i am a muslim but i really don’t give a mind about him being a christian. people should learn to see beyound all these