<p>Well Hindoo, on that we can agree. Thank you for your post, Woodwork.</p>
<p>I think we can conclude that a President should be inspiring, but not all inspiring people should be president!</p>
<p>To further reiterate the point that Woodwork made, it is true that the whole package of a candidate should be examined. My opinion is that the more of a record a candidate has, the better to know him - and it is very good to think that one knows what one is getting in a POTUS.</p>
<p>This history would have kept Obama out of the MAs, I’d guess:</p>
<p>*Obama has written about his drug use before in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.”</p>
<p>“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man,” Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.*</p>
<p>I’m not sure this shows much sacrifice or self-discipline…but are there other, better examples of those qualities?</p>
<p>See: [FOXNews.com</a> - Obama Discusses Past Drug Use With High Schoolers in New Hampshire - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312352,00.html]FOXNews.com”>Barack Obama | Fox News)</p>
<p>The only thing that bothers me about that Fox article was the stupid response by Romney. Point Giuliani.</p>