Friday, February 8, 2008

NY Times takes aim at Obama

This just in from the newspaper that endorsed Hillary Clinton for the democratic nomination:

"Few From Obama's Youth Remember His Drug Use"

If few remember it, why does it belong on the cover of the New York Times? If the point of the article was that at Occidental College he was even-keeled and highly-motivated, why lead with "Drug Use?" It was 16 years ago that "I didn't inhale" got Bill Clinton in hot water. Are the Clintons trying to nail Obama with the same sort of irrelevant personal history attacks that targeted them?

It's a shame that the New York Times front page is being used for such thinly-veiled character attacks.