D.A.R.E. (To Be Consistent...)

The New York Times had a profile on Cindy McCain, wife of John McCain, over the weekend that has incited a great deal of anger from McCain supporters calling the article a vicious attack on Cindy. Included in the criticisms, most notably from failed Republican nominee contenders Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani, is the article's reference to Cindy McCain's addiction to pain medication.

I just read the New York Times article. Here's what they said about Mrs. McCain's drug addiction:

In 1994, Mrs. McCain dissolved the charity after admitting that she had been addicted to painkillers for years and had stolen prescription drugs from it. She had used the drugs, first given for back pain, to numb herself during the Keating Five investigation, she confessed to Newsweek magazine. “The newspaper articles didn’t hurt as much, and I didn’t hurt as much,“ she wrote in an essay. “The pills made me feel euphoric and free.”

The scandal broke just as her husband had been trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He had no idea his wife had been an addict, he told the press.

That's it. That's all they said. I'll grant McCain supporters that the article had a negative undertone and, though probably not factually incorrect, wasn't really necessary or helpful to anyone, especially now that it's created a new controversy to distract from anything that actually matters. But there was plenty to moan and groan about - the mention of Cindy's self-professed addiction to prescription meds was dealt with reasonably and objectively. But McCain-ites just couldn't resist the chance to cry themselves a river over the elite media, personified in the NY Times. Here's Giuliani (what sliver of respect does this man have left?)...



First, he asserts that no one has ever investigated Obama's drug use, then says that the NY Times shouldn't. Crap - if only he'd said something earlier because they ALREADY DID! A front page story investigating Obama's claims of drug use in high school and college. In fact, the paper could find little evidence to support Obama's claim of drug use. If anything, there's more skepticism that he exaggerated his use, than that he might have actually been a dealer, as Mrs. McCain's lawyer suggested.

What's worse, I really liked Huckabee, but two weeks out everybody's gotta jump on the bandwagon I guess...



What in the world do we care who gave Obama the drugs? I would agree "Joe the Plumber" has been attacked unfairly by leftists and liberals and anti-McCain folks, so the correct answer is, "None of this actually matters to Americans presently struggling to avoid foreclosure, fighting to keep their jobs, and watching their 401k's disappear." Someone on FOX news last night even went so far as to suggest maybe Obama was even dealing drugs. Where the hell does that even come from?

Frankly, it appears to me that Rush Limbaugh's time might be better spent recalling the last time a white candidate for ANYTHING that admitted drug use was accused of being a drug dealer.