"And so Barack Obama tells high school kids in New Hampshire that he "made some bad decisions" at their age. He `experimented' with pot and cocaine. This is old news -- but even if it were new news, it would be ho-hum in today's politics.
I would second the ho-hum, except for this: More than half a million Americans now rot in jail for nonviolent drug offenses, some not as bad as Obama's.
Out of humility and humanity, you'd think that the Illinois senator would use this teaching moment to say: "What we politicians call our 'youthful discretions' should not become life-destroying crimes for everyone else. Let's stop arresting drug users."
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