Personally I don’t know how I feel about this. On one hand, I want to lambaste this man for being so unprofessional and exhibiting behavior so unbecoming and embarrassing of the most senior political figure in a municipality. On the other hand, I don’t really see it as a big deal if he only did it the once and it isn’t part of a bigger character deficiency that possible influences his leadership and policy decision making.
I’ll say that the most important criteria for which to judge a politician is the level of trust he has with his delegates and electorates. If people approve of the major, trust him and like him; obviously because he’s been getting results and running the city well, then everything else is a circus fueled by the political schemes of opposition.
The fact he’s now so open about his cocaine use says something about his personality. Not only is he transparent, a stand-out virtue in politics but he’s also someone people can relate to (he made a mistake, don’t we all?) and strong-willed, gauged by the fact he says he doesn’t want to resign.
And at the end of the day, isn’t it just cool? Torontonians can say their major smokes crack and is bad-ass at his job.
If it was a straight-up admission then I’d be impressed, but really it’s been more like the evidence has mounted up until there’s no other choice but to admit it.
Last line in this article is also telling:
‘Asked earlier today why he took so long to admit to his crack use Ford explained to reporters, “I wasn’t lying, you didn’t ask the correct questions.”’
AHAHA, Rob Ford, I usually vote for social minded individuals. I feel he abuses his position. People in Toronto like that he doesn’t bullshit and gets results. He will probably get re elected, he is quite entertaining. I always find it strange that conservative politicians always have personalities that do not align with their ideologies, shows that yes we are all human.
I don’t care that he smoked crack, I think it’s wrong that he did then went out of his way to cover it up, by the way they also have him on camera picking up white bags in various locations so to say he did it once is also a lie. I believe someone should not be ousted for personal choices as long as they get the results everyone is looking for.
I f he does more to stop people relying on selling drugs to make money in Canada then that would be alot better then hypocritical policy of arresting dealers while every one is using drugs. Hopefully a step in the direction of the government legallizing all illicit substances and controling the distribution of such substances. Then alot of dealers and criminals would be forced to do something else for money. We have alot of talent here we don’t harness it well enough.
The situation with Rob Ford is complicated. On the one hand, he has been at the centre of a media witch-hunt since the day he stepped into office. The largely left-leaning Toronto media (Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, CBC Toronto) has made it their life purpose to slander him personally and uncover every time he has ever jay-walked to destroy his personal and political credibility due to the fact that he is an unabashed conservative who has come into office on an anti-public service union platform.
On the other hand, he seemingly has done everything in his power to give them a lifetime of ammunition to use against him. There is no banana peel that he will not step on. Multiple videos of him falling down drunk at public events have surfaced. Now he has admitted (belatedly and only because of extreme pressure) that he has smoked crack. While I think he has actually done a pretty good job as the mayor, I think he should step down because he has admitted to an illegal activity and has bald-faced lied to his electorate for months now about it.
