Posted on 02/27/2005 7:50:54 AM PST by rface
Is this is all that Conason is buiding his case on?
I don't wear a mask - and I don't know if there's more "dirt" on the tapes....but to be honest - experementing with coke wouldn't change my impression of Pres. Bush. You have ways here to check into "political correctness" quotent.
Bush had a drinking problem.....so what!
Bush smoke pot....maybe. So what.
Bush tried coke -- maybe -- but a dangerous experiment, but I think his head is on straight.
I make incorrect judgements on people and other FReepers way too often -- oh well - it looks like you do too.
The rumors were that he used it a Camp David when his father was President..a difference..right?
Parole officers do check for the presence of illegal controlled substances in parolees, but if a parolee wants to use, he will. If he wants to quit, he will.
I don't know if he did it and I don't care, hasn't Joe ever heard of repentence? How can you possible hold it against someone for something stupid that they may have done in youth, haven't we all done something stupid?
I don't know if he did it and I don't care, hasn't Joe ever heard of repentence? How can you possible hold it against someone for something stupid that they may have done in youth, haven't we all done something stupid?
I don't know when or where, they just said in the last 25 years. That would have been in his "youthful mistake" years and before his father's presidency. I don't put stock in rumors, but I remember these statements by his staff and himself during the early days of the campaign.
PS, I'm opposed on principle to jailers who commit the same crimes as their charges.
sometimes I will yank a chain or two just to watch the reaction. This can be a dangerous and distructive hobby, but I wasn't trying to yank a chain here - I was just addressing an issue, in what I thought was, in an open way.
HA!!
...OK, whatever.
Joe Conason is one bitter loser eh?. What a superficial hack. Must suck to be him.
Pretty high bar there. Hell, if you can prove "intent to distribute" beyond a reasonable doubt, then charge the guy with distibution.
If a guy has a distribution amount and is in a place where he can distibute it (on a street corner, in a parking lot, etc.) as opposed to in his living room or basement, then it sure looks like intent to distribute to me. Let's not play games, here.
I'm comfortable with four categories: possession (of a personal use amount), possession (of a distibution amount - no intent to distribute), possession (of a distibution amount - intent to distribute), distribution.
No, Conason does NOT have a valid point, because he failed to write this column during the eight years of the Clinton "presidency". EVERYONE knows that Clinton did drugs. Only the American Left "knows" that "Bush did cocaine". Writing this column during the Clinton regime could have made a difference for the "unjustly incarcerated". Since he failed to write it then, this column is merely for political points, just like a "growing numbers of homeless" column.
Conason is a joke.
Do you understand my point?
Joe Conason beats up little old ladies and steals their aspirin. Everyone knows it whether he admits it or not.
He also dances around his living room in bra and garter belt singing show tunes with the drapes open. My brothers pool boy's sister's hair dresser's garbage man's son's teacher's knows somebody who saw him.
Considering the fact that BIll CLinton's own brother, while being secretly recorded, said that Bill had a nose like a "vacuum cleaner" in regards to Cocaine use, Conason's outrage is a bit ridiculous, don't you think?
" Do you understand my point?"
No, even a lier tells the truth sometimes...
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