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Clinton N.H. Official Warns Obama Will Be Attacked on Drug Use
blog.washingtonpost.com ^ | Dec 12, 2007 | Alec MacGillis

Posted on 12/12/2007 12:25:37 PM PST by MaestroLC

DOVER, N.H. -- Billy Shaheen, the co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire, raised the issue of Sen. Barack Obama's past admissions of drug use in discussing the relative electability of the Democrats seeking the presidential nomination today.

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Shaheen, a lawyer and influential state power broker, mentioned as an example Obama's use of cocaine and marijuana as a young man, which Obama has been open about in his memoir and on the trail.

"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," said Shaheen, the husband of former N.H. governor Jeanne Shaheen, who is planning to run for the Senate next year. Billy Shaheen contrasted Obama's openness about his past drug use -- which Obama mentioned again at a recent campaign appearance in New Hampshire -- with the approach taken by George W. Bush in 1999 and 2000, when he ruled out questions about his behavior when he was "young and irresponsible."

Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "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."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; democratparty; dirtytricks; doublestandard; drugs; drugwar; elections; hillary; news; nh2008; politics
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To: Diogenesis

21 posted on 12/12/2007 12:35:42 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: MaestroLC
Shaheen is an asshat! Does he want Obama to lie like Clintoon? That is a consistent DEM position that Obama obviously forgot.
22 posted on 12/12/2007 12:35:56 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: MaestroLC

I recall Newt admitting to smoking pot in college, and laughing it off. Does HerThighness want to bash a black man for toking on a little weed in his youth? Maybe she’s that stupid.


23 posted on 12/12/2007 12:35:57 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: MaestroLC
"There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks

That's hilarious....considering he just opened his Demo bag of tricks...Like Felix the Cat.

Blame the Pubbies while you are currently doin' it.

24 posted on 12/12/2007 12:36:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (Molon Labe)
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To: MaestroLC

With a husband like hers, Hillary sure has room to talk.


25 posted on 12/12/2007 12:36:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
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To: MaestroLC

The wife of “Hoover Nose” is concerned for Obama.


26 posted on 12/12/2007 12:37:43 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: MaestroLC
C'mon, Earl. Let me talk to the press. My wife, the governor, rarely lets me out of the basement


27 posted on 12/12/2007 12:37:46 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: MaestroLC
“Fly, monkeys, fly.”
28 posted on 12/12/2007 12:38:39 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: Beckwith
Obama said he "experimented with drugs."

I love the term "experimented with drugs". It makes it sound like the user was wearing a lab coat and used a bunsen burner to light up his joint.

29 posted on 12/12/2007 12:39:44 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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To: theDentist

I think you are right.
“Hillary, have you ever done a line off the dash board of Bill’s El Camino?”


30 posted on 12/12/2007 12:41:07 PM PST by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: PLMerite

NICE!! I never tire of these kind of low brow jokes.


31 posted on 12/12/2007 12:41:53 PM PST by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: weegee

“Her own husband has used both substances if Bill and his brother’s admissions are to be believed.”

“A nose like a Hoover” was brother Roger’s description, wasn’t it? I thought drug use, promiscuity and all of the 7 deadly sins were resume enhancers for a RAT. Hillary, you are just building on Hussein’s popularity.


32 posted on 12/12/2007 12:42:13 PM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Boanarges

I guess Obama will saw that he never liked cocaine, he just liked the smell.


33 posted on 12/12/2007 12:42:35 PM PST by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: MaestroLC
Using FBI files, Hillary discovered that Obama was taking these while in the third grade.


34 posted on 12/12/2007 12:43:29 PM PST by ILS21R
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To: mortal19440

Was she the one that ran the ads in NH, “Who knew, Sununu!”?
Those were so funny.


35 posted on 12/12/2007 12:43:59 PM PST by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: theDentist

Interesting that you mention that. In many of the videos possessed by Peter Paul, Hillary grabs her nose as if she has some kind of problem.


36 posted on 12/12/2007 12:44:57 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: MaestroLC

What about thieving, lying, embezzling, malfeasance, and “assisting suicide”?

Are those activities going to make Hillary! shine in the general election?


37 posted on 12/12/2007 12:45:11 PM PST by samtheman
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To: basil

I don’t know that she ever actually Sold drugs, but I do know she and her husband tried to sell the nation.

The Chinese were big buyers amongst others like his pardon buyers.


38 posted on 12/12/2007 12:45:14 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: Polyxene

The Clinton Defense continues to be “everybody does it”.


39 posted on 12/12/2007 12:46:08 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: KarlInOhio

As opposed to experimenting with a half a bottle of Jaggermeister...


40 posted on 12/12/2007 12:47:02 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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