Campaign Co-Chair Issues Apology for Remarks
Clinton Campaign Official Asserts Youthful Obama Drug Use Makes Him a Target
By JAKE TAPPER
Dec. 12, 2007 —
The Democratic presidential race took on a decidedly nasty and personal turn Wednesday, with the New Hampshire co-chair for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, raising the youthful drug use of her chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Hours after the release of a CNN/WMUR poll showing Obama in a statistical tie with Clinton for the first time among New Hampshire Democratic voters, Billy Shaheen husband of the former governor and an influential Democrat in the Granite State who is a constant presence by Clinton's side whenever she campaigns there -- told The Washington Post that should Obama get the Democratic nomination, "one of the things Republicans are certainly going to jump on is his drug use."
In his 1996 memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," Obama wrote candidly about his high school-era drug use: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."
Shaheen said Obama's having been so open -- as opposed to then-Gov. George W. Bush, who refused to detail his past drug use during his 2000 presidential campaign -- will "open the door to further queries on the matter.
"It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."
Yeah... how dare Obama NOT claim he neither inhaled or that he didn't realize he actually had sex!
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