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Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: Conan71 on April 02, 2008, 11:43:03 AM
"Unlike Clinton, Obama arrived at law school unheralded by the media, unencumbered by preconceptions. But at 27, having spent the previous four years working as a community organizer in inner-city Chicago, having been raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, having traveled to Africa, he was more worldly, more fully baked, than Clinton was at Yale."

Okay, made you look.  Actually, a pretty good article if you are into a long read:

New York Magazine (//%22http://nymag.com/news/features/39321/%22)

Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: cannon_fodder on April 02, 2008, 12:02:41 PM
Obama has admitted drug use anyway.  Pot, cocaine, and underage drinking.  Frankly, unless I know someone pretty well I am doubtful of their "I never" assertions.  

quote:
"When I was a kid, I inhaled.

"That was the point," Obama told an audience of magazine editors.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/24/news/dems.php

quote:
In his 1996 memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," Obama wrote candidly about his high school-era drug use: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3992371&page=1
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: tim huntzinger on April 02, 2008, 12:13:37 PM
Ohhhhh you meant illicit drug use.  I was going to suggest something to perk him up.  He makes Lincoln seem excitable.
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: grahambino on April 02, 2008, 12:14:33 PM
these are just youthful indiscretions.
it serves no purpose to talk of such personal matters.
it's time 'honor & dignity' has been restored to the White House.

hey that crap worked once.  why wouldn't it work now?
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: FOTD on April 02, 2008, 12:51:58 PM
BFD....you put up with a dry drunk for 8 years.
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: we vs us on April 02, 2008, 01:53:34 PM
Very nice article.  It's good to hear a little about Hillary and how she and Bill work together.  He's the one with who's telegenic and charismatic, even though by all accounts she's the warm and friendly one in person.  It's sad that their public lives get portrayed in exactly the opposite way.

And it's nice to hear that, at least when he was at the Harvard Review, Obama's the inclusive, circumspect, and liberal guy he says he is.  

Good news for all Democrats! [;)]
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: Conan71 on April 02, 2008, 02:14:37 PM
Okay, obviously some of you missed the blatant  humor in that paragraph:

"more fully baked, than Clinton was at Yale"

Quit taking yerselves so serious, either that or put down the bong long enough to re-read it.

Wevus, you are right, it was a good read.

Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: cannon_fodder on April 02, 2008, 02:31:51 PM
So what you're saying is that Obama can't cook because he is a man?  [:D]
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: tim huntzinger on April 02, 2008, 02:50:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by FOTD

BFD....you put up with a dry drunk for 8 years.



I believe he has not been dry, as the National Enquirer (//%22http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63426%22) reported years ago. Sheesh FOTD, get wid it.
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: Breadburner on April 02, 2008, 10:23:55 PM
Snort...Snort...
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: FOTD on April 17, 2008, 01:51:58 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3FYvuh9OgrQ

Toke for hope....
Title: Suggested Obama Drug Use?
Post by: Conan71 on April 17, 2008, 04:29:40 PM
Larry's looking pretty rough.  Looks like he's been taking the dirt nap for the last year.