How big of a deal is Obama's past drug use? Lynn Sweet asks that question in a blog item after Lois Romano's front pager on the subject in the Washington Post yesterday.

Most of the commenters on Lynn's blog (who by and large seem of the liberal persuasion) said Obama's drug use is no big deal. Some even say the admission will be a plus for him. My favorite comment, though, was this: "Mr.Obama admitted to past drug use which makes him honest and human; Our current president is neither."

I don't think Obama's past drug use will play at all the in the Dem primary, should he choose to run, and it probably won't be much of a factor in the general, either. The folks who would be inclined to vote against him over such a thing in all likelihood wouldn't be voting for him in the first place, and Obama seems skilled enough to defuse the issue with independents in the same way Bush did in 2000 by saying "When I was young and foolish, I was young and foolish."