DC’s greatest treasure

January 11, 2006

Marion Barry, former DC mayor and current member of the city council, tested positive for cocaine. In case you don’t remember, this is the same guy who got caught (while mayor) buying crack at a DC hotel and proclaimed of an associate, “bitch set me up!” And then, not long after that, he was reelected mayor! The man, in terms of DC politics, can dodge bullets (this didn’t prevent him from being robbed at gunpoint a couple weeks ago, however).

Barry is the Mike Tyson of the nation’s capital. And in the same way as with Tyson, while it’s funny to watch his life continually devolve into absurd catastrophe it’s also getting pretty hard to watch. Maybe if people stopped electing him to office he might stop getting high on the job and/or pay his taxes occasionally.

At any rate, I’m pretty sure this is the last ugly turn in his life I’m going to make fun of. From here on out it’s pity all the way.

Posted in Politics/Law, WTF