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Article: SIN, REPENTANCE, REDEMPTION IN POLITICS.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 9, 2007
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Byline: MARGARET CARLSON SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
The snows of New Hampshire and Iowa had barely turned a slushy brown with the footprints of presidential aspirants before a front-page story in The Washington Post raised the question of cocaine use by one of them.
What took so long, you ask? In his first book more than a decade ago, Sen. Barack Obama was open about trying drugs as a teenager.
"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man," Obama wrote, as he tried to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."
Those are questions asked and answered in Obama's two books. The ...