The whole association game is pretty stupid in the first place. McCain had ties with Jack Abramoff, do I really give a shit, NO! McCain even suppressed some of their correspondence during the Senate investigations and had a fairly longstanding relationship with the guy.
Was that connection as questionable or more questionable than any of Obama's connections? Maybe. Should I decide who I am going to vote for on this issue? NO, I know that I know some pretty scummy people and have even been close friends with scummy people. Its these tenuous connections that people on both sides blow out of proportion.
I bet all of us have known someone pretty closely who has committed some major crimes. Hell, my grandma is a huge drug addict. Does that make us bad people? NO. And it is stupid to think that it would.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
