Effect of Obama's Candor Remains to Be Seen

The Washington Post reports:

Long before the national media spotlight began to shine on every twist and turn of his life's journey, Barack Obama had this to say about himself: "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind."

The Democratic senator from Illinois and likely presidential candidate offered the confession in a memoir written 11 years ago, not long after he graduated from law school and well before he contemplated life on the national stage. At the time, 20,000 copies were printed and the book seemed destined for the remainders stacks.

Today, Obama, 45, is near the top of polls on potential Democratic presidential contenders, and "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" has regularly been on the bestseller lists, with 800,000 copies in print. Taken along with his latest bestseller, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream," Obama has become a genuine publishing phenomenon.

The Washington Post doesn't grapple with the bigger issues because they are so soft on Obama.Is Obama for the legalizing of drugs? If not,why not? Should Obama pardon all drug offenders because they haven't been as lucky as him? Or is all this just Obama saying one thing and being for another? You know, like saying you are for public education but sending your kids to private school.