FLASHPOINT FOR OCT. 17, 2005

At least Jack Carter didn't bogart the information. Former President
Jimmy Carter's son openly disclosed last week, in a story in the Reno
Gazette-Journal that followed a blog report, that he smoked
marijuana. Granted, Carter The Younger isn't the first candidate ever
to admit to smoking pot. But it's the rest of the story, as Paul
Harvey says, that could be more problematic. Seems Carter used his
drug use to get booted out of the Navy -- and said he also used LSD
and THC to make sure he was eighty-sixed. Being a pothead is one
thing. But being a pothead who uses marijuana and other drugs to get
out of the Navy? That could sink his ship, as if the prohibitive
underdog could afford to take on any water.