Comments on: Could Candor About Drug Use Hurt Obama?

By: sleipner

sleipner — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:16:20 +0000

He’s ready, but just for the VP job, not as president, I believe. 8 years of experience in that job & he’ll be ready for #1.

By: Kasey Doshier

Kasey Doshier — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:54:59 +0000

his honesty is refreshing, but i still don’t think he’s quite ready for the white houe. a lack of better options is not good enough.

By: wj

wj — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:13:07 +0000

This confessing early to “youthful indiscretions” may have been out of fashion lately. To the regret of some politicians who overlooked/avoided it. But it isn’t exactly new.

I recall the sudden shock at Berkeley in the late 1960s when students discovered that Ronald Reagan, as a college student, had led a student strike. But there it was, in his autobiography, published years earlier. So they couldn’t even accuse him of trying to hide it. How irritating for them.

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:46:32 +0000

I think when people are ultimately let down by Obama the candidate in some way, shape or form…they’ll remember his candor, and give him the benefit of the doubt.

Great post Amba.