OBAMA'S HONESTY IS A POSITIVE CHANGE

I am dumbstruck by a recent letter writer's not-so-thoughtful letter
headlined "Obama's drug use is mostly ignored."

Unless you have been asleep this past decade we have had two
presidents dancing around the truth of their past drug use, and their
stories have been accepted by the American people.

Bill Clinton didn't inhale and George Bush would never come clean
about his irresponsible youth, depending solely on his father's
influence to get out of drunk driving and worse.

Wake up. By Obama's truthful admissions about past drug use we are
seeing a change in the hypocrisy of U.S. drug policy.

Affluent and influential persons do not go to jail, lose federal
funding for college and cannot speak truthfully about drugs -- all to
the detriment of our nation.

We should be thankful for Obama's truth and stop burying our heads in
the sand on this issue.

PETER CHRISTOPHER

Hurdle Mills, N.C.