Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
That all sounds like hyperbole. In the 1970s cocaine was the drug of choice of the privileged. His gang likely did the drugs and alcohol they pilfered from their parents.

I am less impressed than ever.
Sure, but my point was that a high young Obama doing something to earn the suspicion of a overzealous neighbourhood watch member (see below on that narrative not facts are the driving matter) that with some escalation ends up with Obama dead, is a very improbable scenario, but doesn't require some outright crazyness to happen. Compare to say Mitt Romney (afaik) or someone else with a very spotless growing up record.

Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
What does it matter, Obama shouldn't have get himself involved in a non-issue, and now it's an issue.
They've got national protests and everything. It was an issue already.

It's not the facts that he has to react to, it's the narrative. He could've chosen to officially reject the narrative, but that's still a reaction to the narrative, not the facts. No time to fully check atm, but afaik he choosed troubled youth did something stupid and ended up dead for it as he narrative for his speach.

That media can control the narrative is quite nasty and a fact that's hard to avoid.