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Obama’s unlikely defender

Rudy Giuliani defended Barack Obama’s decision to publicly discuss his past drug abuse problems.  From Carl Cameron’s FNC blog:

Rudy Giuliani declared that Americans should not expect a “pretense of perfection” from candidates running for office and says he respects Barack Obama’s “honesty” for discussing his previous drug use with a group of high schoolers today.

The Illinois Senator is receiving criticism from Mitt Romney, among others, for opening up and discussing past mistakes during a town hall at a Manchester, NH High School Tuesday.

“I made some bad decisions that I’ve written about, there were times when I got into drinking and experimented with drugs.. there was a whole stretch of time when i didn’t really apply myself a lot,” Obama told the group.

Giuliani said he believes Obama’s topic of conversation was completely appropriate.

“I respect his honesty in doing that. I think that one of the things we need from our people who are running for office is not this pretense of perfection,” Giuliani said. “The reality is all of us that run for public office, whether its governor, legislator, mayor, president–we are all human beings. If we haven’t made mistakes don’t vote for us cause we got some big ones that are gonna happen in the future and we wont know how to handle them.”

The former NYC mayor has been forthright about admitting his own mistakes during the campaign–most recently dogged by his connection to indicted former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik–even noting in two recent television ads that he is not perfect. 

Mitt Romney, however, apparently thinks Barry O should be disqualified from consideration of the electorate based on this incident alone:

But fellow Republican contender Mitt Romney feels differently, saying Obama committed a “huge error.”

“It’s just not a good idea for people running for presoident of the United States who potentially could be the role model for a lot of people to talk about their personal failings while they were kids because it opens the doorway to other kids thinking, ‘well I can do that too,’” Romney told an Iowa audience today. 

My take?  Obama is hugely unqualified to be president of the United States for a plethora of reasons, none of which are related to his past drug use.  If the man has been clean for this many years, that’s fine with me.  Obama’s left-wing quasi-Marxist ideology, his pitiful record in public office, and his “let’s go bomb Pakistan” foreign policy gaffes are more than enough reasons to not vote for that empty suit.

November 20, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | drugs, Obama, Romney, Rudy