Aside from the appearance of hypocrisy of GOP members condemning "the secret taping" by Douglas Wead (yeah, thats his name) when they were defending Linda Tripp who secretly taped Monica Lewinsky, Bush appears to "admit" once again that he used marijuana, if not cocaine, but explained his "strategy" of not answering questions about his drug use because he doesn't want children to think its okay to use drugs (he may have a point but I smell a rationalisation, not genuine concern).
Hence my question: does he have the moral authority, assuming of course one can have the moral authority, to punish people for doing what he did? How can a former pot smoker have the moral authority to punish others for smoking pot? How can a former cocaine user have the moral authority to punish cocaine users? Wasn't this what Jesus (Bush says he's a Christian) was criticising when he said "judge not" and "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? Its not as cut and dried, obviously parents punish their children for doing bad things the parents did when they were youngsters, but when children find this out about their parents, do they not see the hypocrisy and react with "but you did it too"?
Hence my question: does he have the moral authority, assuming of course one can have the moral authority, to punish people for doing what he did? How can a former pot smoker have the moral authority to punish others for smoking pot? How can a former cocaine user have the moral authority to punish cocaine users? Wasn't this what Jesus (Bush says he's a Christian) was criticising when he said "judge not" and "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"? Its not as cut and dried, obviously parents punish their children for doing bad things the parents did when they were youngsters, but when children find this out about their parents, do they not see the hypocrisy and react with "but you did it too"?
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