Well, at least that’s how it came across when, in response to Barack Obama’s truthful answer to a questioner about ever having smoked pot, he said:

“I agree with the sentiment that nobody’s perfect and most of us, if not all of us, in our youthful years have engaged in various indiscretions we wouldn’t want to have paraded in the front of a newspaper. On the other hand if we’re running for president, I think it’s important for us not to go into details about the weaknesses and our own failings as young people for the concern that we open kids thinking that it’s ok for them.”

Are you kidding me? So, Mitt, I guess if you’re ever asked a question such as the one asked of Obama, you’re going to lie? You’re going to say you never did anything unseemly as a kid? Riiiight. That’s neither believable nor respectable.

At least Barack Obama isn’t afraid of the truth:

Earlier this week in New Hampshire Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke candidly about his past experimentation with drugs and alcohol in high school, and on Saturday—after a question on medicinal marijuana—Obama was prodded a bit further and asked whether or not he had ever inhaled.

“I did,” the senator from Illinois said to light applause. “It’s not something I’m proud of. It was a mistake as a young man.”

The question was a reference to a line made famous by former President Bill Clinton who, while admitting to trying marijuana, said he did not inhale.

“I never understood that line,” Obama continued. “The point was to inhale. That was the point.”

Mitt Romeny remarked that Obama’s truthful confession set a bad example for our nation’s young people. What planet does he live on!? If anything, the truth always lends credibility to ones perceived character. It’s as if Romney thinks the rest of us — including our young people — don’t have our own skeletons. No, most of us would not want to admit them in an open forum, but when one is running for public office, it comes with the territory. Hence the term PUBLIC office. If you’re going to lie about things as inconsequential as smoking pot when you were a clueless teenager, then what else are you going to lie about? Hmmm?

You’re not a teenager anymore, Mitt. Get a clue!

Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Politics, Smoking Pot