Liberals want Crack Smoker to represent them!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, infamous for being caught smoking crack on an FBI videotape, has made it back to city hall — again. The man once dubbed "Mayor For Life" on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for the Ward 8 council seat — the same post he won in 1992 after serving six months in prison for his drug conviction.

I am glad we can trust the liberals to use common sense and make the right moral choices for this country.

Oh yes, because smoking pot is going to detroy this country.

You may want to edit your post before you look like a fool for talking about pot when the man was convicted for smoking CRACK... too late.

What do you expect? The world is full of idiots.

Don't expect logic from D.C. residents. Barry could probably be mayor again if he ran.

I think it's completely stupid. But at the same time, isn't it a touch hypocritical to be bitching about a cracksmoker, 'cause he's liberal, but support a cokehead for President?

seppo

Oh yes, you're brilliant all right. Again showing us all the wisdom of your massive IQ calling a sitting President a cokehead when every attempt to link him to cocaine use has fallen flat and is unsubstantiated.

You are indeed smarter than us all!

Wow you people think I'm dumb because I get a few drug names mixxed up, yet you don't want to hear the truth.

EVERY (but I guess the hardcore Republicans) know he did drugs, yet no one cares because he no longer does them.

And PAD, he is at least smarter than one, you.

Likewise, we can also trust conservatives to truly uphold morals, as they have time and time again.

Take Newt Gingrich, formerly one of the most powerful men in the country. Newt was a vehement proponent of family values. In fact, he was such a family man, that when his wife was recovering from a cancer treatment, he took time out of his busy schedule to meet her.
... Where he presented her with the terms of their divorce - while, as some sources say, she was still in a state of disorientation, due to the operation.

Or George W. Bush, who engaged in such morally-uplifting activites as drunk driving, and as anyone capable of logical induction can tell, snorting cocaine:
First, he refused to deny or confirm that he used cocaine. Then, he said, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible." Then he says he hasn't used cocaine -- in the past 7 years. Clearly, there's a reason he can't flatly deny the charge.
Or key players in Iran-Contra, such as John Negroponte, Colin Powell, John Poindexter, Elliot Abrams, and Otto Reich - members all of the Bush administration.

Excactly, all of them lie, but the almost crazy, (I can't think of a word, picking and choosing what you hear.) republicans here think that only democrats do it, it's just crazy.

I guess the difference is that Barry was actually convicted and served time for his crime.

Ah, yes. Because Bush has a long history of living with the consequences of *his* actions.

I'm not saying Marion Barry isn't a bad guy, or that he wasn't an idiot. But Bush isn't any better, and just 'cause his family's powerful, and ludicrously wealthy doesn't make him better, or more innocent, than he is. All it would take is a single statement to counter all the other statements - did he ever use cocaine?

I expect that's a question whose answer we'll never hear.

seppo

Hey, that bitch set Barry up! (Oh, I loved watching that videotape sting.)

Here's where being non-dogmatic can help. I don't like Marion Barry. I didn't like him before he got busted but since I don't live in DC there's not a lot I can do about him. I don't have to like everyone on the Democratic ticket.

Rush Limbaugh, another HUGE hyppocrit, just divorced his third wife. Those are some family values. Hmmm, and gay people are going to ruin the sanctity of marriage?

[quote name='Backlash']Rush Limbaugh, another HUGE hyppocrit, just divorced his third wife. Those are some family values. Hmmm, and gay people are going to ruin the sanctity of marriage?[/quote]

Not only that, but he was on high doses of perscription 'happy pills'.

And he didn't go to jail or rehab or anything.

[quote name='Quackzilla'][quote name='Backlash']Rush Limbaugh, another HUGE hyppocrit, just divorced his third wife. Those are some family values. Hmmm, and gay people are going to ruin the sanctity of marriage?[/quote]

Not only that, but he was on high doses of perscription 'happy pills'.

And he didn't go to jail or rehab or anything.[/quote]

I thought he did go to rehab? Or maybe he just said that to try and make the whole Donovan McNabb thing go away.

Well, he did go through a 30-day treatment, but given what he's said about drug users in the past:
-- "... if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- "... too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too."

... that he received such a mild punishment displays a stunning level of hypocrisy, that few people other than Rush would be capable of.