Barack Obama gets candid about his mis-spent youth:
There were times when I, you know, got into drinking, experimented with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't really apply myself a lot.
And, according to New York's Daily News, the public reaction is positive. Even Rudy Giuliani was moved to say: "I respect his honesty .... One of the things that we need from our people that are running for office is not this pretense of perfection."
It certainly makes a change from Bill Clinton's lame "I did not inhale" non-confession.
