All the Dirt that’s Fit to Print

[Joanne98]

Once again those intrepid investigative reporters at The New York Times are hard at work.This morning’s above-the-fold, front-page expose: How much marijuana did Barack Obama really smoke in high school and college? Apparently, not enough.

After snooping around for classmates of Obama in high school and college, The Times seems concerned that the presidential candidate does not seem to have been as stoned out 30 years ago as readers of his book, Dreams from My Father, might have thought.

How’s that for a hard-hitting revelation?

Writes The Times Serge Kovaleski: “Mr. Obama’s account of his younger self and drugs … significantly differs from the recollections of others. That could suggest he was so private about his (drug) use that few people were aware of it, that the memories of those who knew him decades ago are fuzzy or rosier out of a desire to protect him, or that he added some writerly touches in his memoir to make the challenges he overcame seem more dramatic.”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/10/6969/