Do you want the president to have to piss in a cup like you did? Because in South Carolina they are considering a law to make every elected official in the state take period drug tests after a representative was arrested on cocaine trafficking charge (or something like that.)

That seems fine to me, even though I think drug tests are ridiculous for most workers and a waste of money.

I don't know though; plenty of kids I went to college with (a Little Ivy BTW) did a shit load of drugs when they were 18 or 19 and now they don't even take cold medicine. They are doctors, budding politicians, one of them is a rabbi. If you want to use recreational drug use as a litmus test, then it's your right as voter. If you see it as hypocritical, (though the person you are at 18 isn't necessarily the person you are at 45, I'm sorry it's true) then that's your right as well.

The conservatives (or possibly the Clinton camp, who knows) has also said:

1) Obama is a Muslim who won't swear on the bible.

2) Obama is a member of a black racist church that wants to turn America into Africa.

I'm really not surprised that there's a sex scandal. The problem is, ofcourse, proving it. And the other problem is did you see Mr. Sinclair? If that creepy minister in Denver could pull a hottie, I'd think Obama could at least get a good looking man with all of his teeth. I mean, c'mon. He's a Harvard lawyer! There's plenty of "Obamabots" (probably even back in 1999 who'd come under the spell of his charm) who'd be happy to service him. I guess maybe it was all that cocaine.

It's obvious though, that there is a whole group of people backing Sinclair, since he got a lawyer to take his slander case (nope) and since you said he's taking a polygraph test (where'd you read that.)

I'm allowed to be sick of the term, on the down low, just like I've gotten sick of a lot of different pop culture expressions in the past, and I really hope it's not here to stay. I hope someday that men in this country, black and white, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to fuck each other without any sort of subterfuge...that will be a great day...

If footnote attributions this is what it has come to then Hillary is about to go under. So far as I can tell, her argument is "Yeah, it is an established practice and everyone else does it too, but he does it BETTER." Oh my! How dare he!?

Face it, any candidate making this argument has lost. This is a loser's game.

Why would a politician who's out there trying to get every vote he can alienate a huge share of the voters my being misogynistic? It just doesn't make any sense.

Actually, I addressed one possibility in an earlier post to someone else. My possibility was that he did not do this deliberately. His misogyny is unconscious. That is just speculation of course. Almost anything we might way about these people (Homo Politicus as Dana Milbank would say) concerning their choices and their character is speculation. Moreover, he and Senator Clinton are engaged in a great drama, a divisive fight the outcome of which will give one of them an enormous amount of power. I believe Obama to be arrogant. I think there are some similarities between him and Bill Clinton. Both of them probably see themselves as having been touched by the gods (although I think both of them have merely been touched by the charm fairy) and thus they probably think they can get away with things that others cannot. I think we can take some comfort from this. Neither of them, unlike our current pres, claim to be chatting with GOD on a regular basis.

What sets Hillary Clinton apart is that there is no way she can claim she has been touched by the charm fairy. To hear some misogynistic claims that I see here at Salon, she has rarely even been touched by her husband. This is good. It means she can concentrate on her job. We the people are hiring a president not the Second Coming. She has been damned with the faint praise of being competent. People, having endured over seven years of utter incompetence, seem to forget that this is no small thing.

It's not like I referenced some unknown esoteric blog.

The guy raising the charges is evidently taking a polygraph, and this story is making the rounds in the conservative corners of the internet -- so don't think it won't come up in the general election.

Imagine it now -- Larry Sinclair cast as Senator Obama's Jennifer Flowers.

Recall that Jennifer Flower's case was also spurious and tossed out on it's ear, but the smear did its work.

The Swift Boat charges were also completely false, but they took on a life of their own.

It sure is a shame that you don't like the phrase down low and are tired of it being used, because I don't see it leaving the cultural lexicon anytime soon. Go complain to George Hanna, R. Kelly and the NY Times. I didn't coin it or make popular the infidelity connotations to its usage.

My thoughts?

Currently, Senator Obama is a tabula rasa getting a free pass from the media.

Rooting about the net this morning, I came up with the additional plagiarism instances listed over at Taylor Marsh and the Smoking Gun slander law suit. Then there is that Michelle Obama not being proud of her country for more than 45 years quote. (I wonder if it will get the media play that President Clinton's responses to the abortion demonstrators and the Obama heckler received yesterday?)

To me, the drug charges if proven true are miles more damning than gay sex. (I had to deal with the fall out of don't ask don't tell as an officer in the navy during the 90s and can't tell you how much I really do not care about a person's sexual preference.)

You may be tired of down low -- but I am tired of the hypocrisy of the drug war. While hundreds of thousands of our citizens languish in privately owned, corporate run, for profit prisons on drug charges, the current president, the former president and Senator Obama have all admitted to similar past offenses.

(Even if President Clinton did not inhale, he had an illegal substance in his possession.)

I spent most of my adult life being observed while pissing in a cup as part of command urinalysis and don't cotton to one standard for the people and another for the leaders.

But ultimately - you are just some stranger on the internet who will read what you want into my comments.