Dr. Groove
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The issue is not underage drinking, the issue is lying about the legal drinking age. I remember when the legal age went up to 21 in Wisconsin having grown up in Chicago.
Agreed. I can't believe anyone from that era, especially those choosing to drink, could not remember accurately what the drinking age was.
I can tell you the gas station in Wisconsin we drove to to buy beer, because their drinking age was 18, while IL was 21. I wasn't 18 either, but we could fake that better than we could fake 21.
Secondly -Beyond the seemingly irrelevant act of drinking underage, we see a judge, being considered for the highest bench, who speaks to the subject with the same maturity of an entitled prep-school brat being questioned by his parents. Bending the truth, lying, rationalizing and omitting where necessary to avoid being grounded. All that to answer "Did you drink?" "Did you drink too much?" "Have you blacked out." Questions that rise to the level of a High School counselor's intake or a court-ordered alcohol assessment questionnaire. These shouldn't be hard questions, even if they had humbling answers.
He's a liar - through and through.