Claire McCaskill Admits Drug Use

KOTV, Channel 5, on You Tube ^ | July 21, 2005 | KOTV

[PhiKapMom]

Please view the video at:

Claire McCaskill Federal Drug Investigation (Admits Drug Use)

[PhiKapMom]

McCaskill is running for Senate against Sen Talent.

[NormsRevenge]

Claire McCaskill, center, Missouri's Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks to supporters gathered to watch election results in Springfield, Mo., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. McCaskill is locked in a tight and closely-watched race with Republican incumbent Jim Talent. McCaskill is flanked by Missouri House of Representatives candidates Sara Lampe, left, and Nancy Hagan. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

[pissant]

That battle axe shouldn't win dogcather.

[thoughtomator]

Gee another hypocritical anti-drug campaigner.

Your doobies, ma'am...

[tobyhill]

Looks busted to me.

[battlegearboat]

She's going after the Mainline voters.

[jdm]

Ah, c'mon, she's just high on liberalism.

[Gay State Conservative]

In Massachusetts,this would get her an extra 500,000 votes.

[Xenalyte]

I can't see YouTube at work . . . what's she admitting to having done?

[Deo volente]

[jmq]

Please...That is old news. There was 8 out of 10 college age kids doing drugs at one time or another in the 70s. I could be wrong but didnt we have a President that admitted cocaine use? It is a bad way to go negative on something that happened 30+ years ago....Nothing new in KC politics.

[thoughtomator]

If that was the whole story, then it would be a minor story at best. But when she turns around and pretends as an anti-drug campaigner and tries to take a Senate seat on that basis, it becomes quite the story indeed!

[jdm]

In Massachusetts,this would get her an extra 500,000 votes.

She also needs to work on crashing her car more often.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

I could be wrong but didnt we have a President that admitted cocaine use?

You're wrong. He never "admitted" any such thing. Put the pipe down...

[Begin]

Bwahaha!

[yldstrk]

Believe me this story is just a witch hunt...she's rightthat entire generation was doing something during the 70's. Besides..as an attorney, I am sick to death of law enforcement and prosecutors pretending drug use is a real crime while killers and molesters are getting off free.

[Theodore R.]

This may actually help her to win. There are so many abusers that many may come and out vote for her, rather than skip routine elections. Others may cite her for her "courage" in admitting her addiction.

[Beckwith]

I could be wrong but didnt we have a President that admitted cocaine use?

Name him and provide a source.

[TYVets]

Now she has an excuse for being called Crazy Claire.

[jps098]

Wasn't it Roger Clinton, the President's brother, that said Bill "had a nose like a vaccum cleaner"?

[yldstrk]

LOL

[Chunga]

Yes, you're wrong. Next.

[Beckwith]

By source, I meant a link to a reliable source. Roger Clinton has never been accused of being reliable.

[ghost of nixon]

By source, I meant a link to a reliable source. Roger Clinton has never been accused of being reliable

the source would actually be a police survailance tape on which Roger says: "My brother has a nose like a vacuum cleaner." Since Roger didn't know he was being taped, I would consider it pretty reliable.

[Beckwith]

THanks. I didn't know that.

Do you have a link? I would love to have that.

[badpacifist]

I don't like Claire. Senator Talent is my man. Yes, I also did drugs and don't do them now. Hope it hurts her campaign but wouldn't count on it.

[Welike ike]

You should also realize as an attorney that McKaskill was under investigation by the FEDS in the 1990's. This is not about the 1970's drug use. She has a dead ex husband and a huge scandal brewing.

[tacticalogic]

If that was the whole story, then it would be a minor story at best. But when she turns around and pretends as an anti-drug campaigner and tries to take a Senate seat on that basis, it becomes quite the story indeed!

I think it's more rule than the exception that people become more supportive of the drug war once they enter public service. The drug war looks different on the other end of the cash flow.

[Niteranger68]

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting the picture!

[PhiKapMom]

You are probably right!

[no dems]

Missouir folks, outside of St. Louie and K.C., are very conservative. How can Jim Talent be in such a tight race? Is it the war in Iraq?

[PhiKapMom]

I don't what the internal polling is saying because external polling right now is suspect. I have a hard time believing they are polling in the conservative areas of MO.

From what I have learned, this is only the first shoe to drop. We need to make sure we keep that seat in Republican control by turning out the vote in the conservative parts of MO which is what we did here in OK for Dr. Coburn!

[Neoliberalnot]

ST L and KC have a large population of uneducated folks and union workers both of which are the bulwark of the RAT base here.

[AnnaZ]

Besides..as an attorney, I am sick to death of law enforcement and prosecutors pretending drug use is a real crime while killers and molesters are getting off free.

Hmmm... then you'll love this story just posted:

The Trouble With Painkillers ^

Posted by stinkerpot65 On News/Activism ^ 08/21/2006 6:16:15 PM CDT CBS4 News ^ | Jul 7, 2006 | Jennifer Santiago ... What many like Spence don’t know is that with just six prescriptions pain killers, such as Percocet, allow prosecutors to charge you with trafficking under the state’s mandatory minimum drug law. Just 28 grams of the painkiller is enough to serve a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in jail. She was originally charged with possession by police, but later prosecutors upped her charges to drug trafficking. “Trafficking is definitely not a bottle of mom’s pill,” said Spence as she sobbed.

[VOA]

How can Jim Talent be in such a tight race? Is it the war in Iraq?

I suspect she's getting a bump by running as tougher-than-Talent
on illegal immigration.
Truly done as a pure disciple of Bill Clinton.

It's going to be close given the dead and multiple votes in St. Louis
and KC.
But I think Talent will gently remove her brilliant disguise
during the course of a campaign.

[Republican Red]

interesting video at YouTube.

[PhiKapMom]

I agree! Have no idea who runs the site either.

[MarkL]

Missouir folks, outside of St. Louie and K.C., are very conservative. How can Jim Talent be in such a tight race? Is it the war in Iraq?

Unfortunately, the population centers are KC, St Louis (and don't forget their cemetaries: one election the number of votes cast was greater than the number of elligible voters), and Columbia, which is Looney Left and Hamas Central.

Mark

[iowamark]

How many Democrat activists have NOT used illegal drugs?

Must be very few.

[jmq]

For real. I mean I will take the time but didn't my president whom I voted for, tacitly (or as much as Claire McCaskill did) say they did a little stuff in the 70-80 period. I guess if you really want me too I can do it for you tomorrow.......

[jmq]

Did I really miss the 2000 election? I voted for our President twice. But for real? You weren't in the USA during the election? Come on. The well rounded guy who frankly is a stud president is tacitly admitted his use as much as Claire McCaskill has........

[sabe@q.com]

So what.

[jmq]

This video is from a Gubenitorial race in my local area where this was old news.

[Holicheese]

It seemed to be a big deal to the MSM that W had a DUI back in 1980.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

1976...

[lawnguy]

Missouir folks, outside of St. Louie and K.C., are very conservative. How can Jim Talent be in such a tight race? Is it the war in Iraq?

Talent's commercials so far have been very "new tone", emphasizing how well he works with democrats and how "non partisan" he is. He's really softening the message.(so far)

Of course, you let a terrorist attack occur between now and election day, and all the guys will all of a sudden be great warriors on the WOT again ;)

[Holicheese]

1976, thats even worse!!

[Liberty Valance]

Agreed.

[ghost of nixon]

I believe it is mentioned in Roger Morris' "Partners in Power". Roger Clinton was busted for cocaine at this time - approx 1983 - and he was supposedly recorded on the police survailance tape saying to the guy he was buying coke from: the reason he needed more coke was that "my brother has a nose like a vacuum claener".