$20 says once the campaign begins in earnest, everyone will know everything about this. If the MacCain campaign were smart (and it isn't), they'd leak this story out and defuse it.
I posted right below your post and had this in my comment;
“She talks openly about it which she says is part of the recovery process.”
That was in the Wall Street Journal. I don’t think this is a secret to any of us who read the news and are on the internet. It probably will be to the rest of the people.
Strangely, Bill Clinton’s drug use didn’t seem to have a bad effect on his admirers. But Cindy is not well known to the general public.
JFK was heavily medicated because of medical problems. Betty Ford was an alcoholic, the list could go on and on.