A crazy woman, Dr. Ada M. Fisher, was authorized to speak to the press on behalf of the McCain campaign at the NAACP convention. She took that opportunity to make some of the most unfortunate and incoherent remarks about drug use in recent memory:
On second thought, I give up. I just cannot compete with this. It never even occurred to me before that if we elect an admitted drug user to be president, we'll have to let druggies work in our nuclear facilities. Drug policy reform was a fun hobby, but I've been outclassed. See ya in hell, hippies.
AF: "â¦Obama in his book about his father talked about his use of drugs. And I think itâs disingenuous of people to vote for somebody for President when you wonât allow a drug user in any secure or nuclear facility. Yet we as a nation, are willing to consider making somebody President of the United States I think that speaks very poorlyâ¦Bill Clinton said he smoked but he didnât inhaleâ¦But he didnât come out and flagrantly say he used drugsâ¦and if thatâs going to be our standard God helps us in nuclear facilities and secure facilities who have this kind of history..and this nation must be very careful when it lowers the bar on who and what it will accept.
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AF: See, if you admit it, it should disqualify you. Otherwise, weâll have to let all those people who â¦applied for jobs in these facilitiesâ¦There is a reason that those rules are there. I was a detox director for 16 counties in North Carolina , so I have a great understanding about what drugs and what they do to people. And I know that in moments of weakness, people tend to revert those things that theyâve used in the past. I donât think itâs disingenuous, I donât think its fair. If I ran for President of the U.S. and I had that history, I would expect people to look at that very carefully. We cannot have a nation high on drugs and have the President⦠as an example. Iâm sorry I disagree with that. [Wonkette]
Note: Pete Guither has more at DrugWarRant, observing among other things that no one seems to have a problem putting recovering alcoholics in the White House.
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