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I'm curious what you consider to be Obama's moral failings, to say that he would not have passed in the 80s.
by MereInterest 9y ago
I'm curious what you consider to be Obama's moral failings, to say that he would not have passed in the 80s.
- kolp 9y agoHe admitted to using grass and coke in his youth. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, had to concoct a story about smoking grass but not inhaling.
- bfuller 9y agoCan you imagine if during Reagan's campaign someone leaked nude photos of his mother? Or Bush? Do you really think Evangelicals would have gone for that?
- soundwave106 9y agoMuckraking is not a new phenomenon at all, even to this degree. The "nude photos" of Ann Dunham have been debunked as false. [1] I speculate you are right, though, that less people these days would give a flip about whether one modeled for a underground fetish publication in the late 1960s, even if true. Unfortunately, there are still a significant amount of people who would have an issue with this. But to me (and probably others), the claims made say nothing about Ann Dunham (even if they were true). But they say a heck of a lot of negative about the authors of what seems to be the primary source of this muckraking [2]. [1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11135/are-these-nude-photos-of-barack-obamas-mother https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/11135/are-these... (link warning, possibly NSFW) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Real_Father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Real_Father
- bfuller 9y agoYou are correct, the photos have been debunked. I should have clarified that. I was making a statement based on how many people believe they are real.
- code_duck 9y agoHe openly admitted smoking marijuana in his youth. Bill Clinton weaseled out of it, famously claiming he "didn't inhale" and didn't like it. 16 years later, Obama didn't feel the need to fudge his history in that regard.