Did you know Obama is a chain smoker?

[Heath Ledger]

You don't see it in the media but this golden boy is a big fan of the cancer stick.

[ChumpDumper]

I saw it in the media.

[DarrinS]

Really? He doesn't look like a smoker.


He must use a lot of oil of olay.

[DarrinS]

Why would it matter if he was a smoker?

[clambake]

he talked about at West Chester University the other day. i think it's out there.

[Heath Ledger]

I was just pointing out a little known fact, he seems like the nations golden boy however he has some badass in him cuz we all know only tough guys smoke cigarettes and do blow.

[Heath Ledger]

It may be out there but its a little known fact, i'll bet 90 percent of the people who read this if they didnt know never would have pictured Obama as a chain smoker.

[DarrinS]

He talked about it on Ellen Degeneres

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGU4hpONJw


But, again, why is this important?


I'm not even a supporter and I could care less about him being a smoker.

[Heath Ledger]

Have you even read my posts?

[ChumpDumper]

It's little known because nobody gave a shit about it the last three times it was mentioned in the mainstream media.

http://mediamatters.org/static/images/item/bigstory-20070117-obama.jpg

[Heath Ledger]

He has not quit hes back off the bandwagon.

[Heath Ledger]

Wow i point a little known fact about Obama and people get all defensive here, do you see the pattern? He was a cokehead and a cigarette addict, what else is he hiding

[clambake]

so, if he goes "pro tobacco", i don't have gallaher shares anymore.

figures.

[clambake]

i know a company bankrupting, cokeblowing, weedsmoking, drunk, whore chaser.

[ChumpDumper]

Wow i point a little known fact about Obama and people get all defensive here, do you see the pattern? He was a cokehead and a cigarette addict, what else is he hiding:lol If by hiding you mean stating those facts plainly it in his book, in the papers and on national television, he's done a horrible job of keeping the secret.

My main reason for not voting for Obama would be that he is pretty much a dilettante and might have a period of shitiness longer than Bill Clinton's before he got rid of most of the ideologues and idiots that surrounded him early on, not his smoking.

[DarrinS]

Personally, I just want to see the Presidential motorcade with spinners. :fro

[ChumpDumper]

"I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not."

http://www.forces.org/newimages/reagan_chesterfield_ad.jpg

Damn, Reagan was trying to get all his friends to smoke too!

[SPARKY]

This isn't exactly a revelation. He apparently kicked the habit.

I'm not sure what the problem with this might be. It's funny that we expect our politicians to be clean and pure in everything.

[Phil Hellmuth]

that nicotine just might alter his cognitive abilities as president... oh myyyy!

[SPARKY]

His middle name is Hussein and he used to smoke. Of course, he smoked Kools so he can't relate to the average Marlboro Reds smoking stiff.

[SPARKY]

Actually, it would probably sound a little more nefarious if he smoked Camels given that, again, his middle name is Hussein.

[RandomGuy]

You don't see it in the media but this golden boy is a big fan of the cancer stick.


Actually, "the media" does comment on it. Usually about the time they report that his wife made him give them up for good before starting the campaign.

I am sorry that it seems to surprise you that this bit of non-news is a rating yawner.

News stations are run on ratings.

Now, a question for the OP that will not go away until answered:
How much of a ratings bump would running more than ONE minor bit on this non-news story get any news organization?

[DarrinS]

His middle name is Hussein and he used to smoke. Of course, he smoked Kools so he can't relate to the average Marlboro Reds smoking stiff.


Newports. Get with it. Kools are old-school.

[fyatuk]

It may be out there but its a little known fact, i'll bet 90 percent of the people who read this if they didnt know never would have pictured Obama as a chain smoker.

He looks like a possible smoker to me. From the little I've seen of him, some of his mannerisms look similar to those of longtime smokers I know. Not a guarantee, but not something I'd doubt if told about.

Not that I care one way or another.

[SAGambler]

It may be out there but its a little known fact, i'll bet 90 percent of the people who read this if they didnt know never would have pictured Obama as a chain smoker.

That's really odd. Or else you don't know what a real "chain smoker" is.

And even if he is....WGAF?

[Heath Ledger]

He has not quit. Ill say it again.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obama-is-smokin.html

http://www.tmz.com/2008/04/03/obama-to-cigs-i-wish-i-knew-how-to-quit-you/
he probably still powedering his nose too. It's helpful with the long hours he endures.

[florige]

Bill Clinton smoked Marijuana and Cigars, what's the big deal?

[clambake]

Bill Clinton smoked Marijuana and Cigars, what's the big deal?
he isn't black.

[peewee's lovechild]

I might change my mind and vote for him . . . only if he promises to bring down the price on cigs. Those fuckers are getting to expensive.

Couple that with high gas prices and my entire paycheck goes to rent, insurance, Exxon, and Marlboro.

[dallaskd]

holy shit, maybe hes actually a real person too.

[Kermit]

You know, I heard yesterday that Senator Obama actually took shits...in toliets!! Is that not the most fucked up thing ever?

[clambake]

You know, I heard yesterday that Senator Obama actually took shits...in toliets!! Is that not the most fucked up thing ever?
ray can remember the days when he didn't have to share toilets.

[xrayzebra]

ray can remember the days when he didn't have to share toilets.

Spambake, people are beginning to talk. I know I am
always on your mind, what little you have left, but please,
you have got to control yourself.

[clambake]

i work for the FDA. it's my job to investigate expired products.

[RandomGuy]

i work for the FDA. it's my job to investigate expired products.

Kind of like the hopelessly stale rhtetoric of the conservative movement?

I think the expiration date on that bullshit still has "19" for the first two digits of the year...

[clambake]

Kind of like the hopelessly stale rhtetoric of the conservative movement?

I think the expiration date on that bullshit still has "19" for the first two digits of the year...
exactly. but you have to keep track of the salespeople, too.

[boutons_]

20% of Americans smoke. Obama is seeking their support, along with $$support from BigTobacco. :)

"i work for the FDA"

How much personally do you get from BigPharma to be incompetent?

[clambake]

20% of Americans smoke. Obama is seeking their support, along with $$support from BigTobacco. :)

"i work for the FDA"

How much personally do you get from BigPharma to be incompetent?
it's all based on the scam amount potential.

[Wild Cobra]

You don't see it in the media but this golden boy is a big fan of the cancer stick.
Since when does that change a persons eligability for being predsident?

My God. It shouldn't even be newsworthy.

Anyone really care?

[ChumpDumper]

It's important!

[DarrinS]

Now, if he was smoking pole, that would be newsworthy.

[FromWayDowntown]

Talk about a candidate who engages in high risk behaviors!! I heard a rumor recently that Obama has unprotected sex, too. Who could vote for someone like that? Really.

[E20]

I'm voting for Mcain, Stallone supports him.

[BonnerDynasty]

It's not that he can't quit them, it's that the cigs CAN'T QUIT HIM.

[SpursWoman]

Actually, it would probably sound a little more nefarious if he smoked Camels given that, again, his middle name is Hussein.


:lol

[PixelPusher]

Talk about a candidate who engages in high risk behaviors!! I heard a rumor recently that Obama has unprotected sex, too. Who could vote for someone like that? Really.
I heard from a guy who lives in South Carolina that he fathered a black baby, too.

[2centsworth]

Is smoking even legal anymore?

[JoeChalupa]

He smokes!! Oh the horrah!!!

[Yonivore]

He smokes!! Oh the horrah!!!
Actually, I think it's more about the fact he lies about it.

[xrayzebra]

Actually, I think it's more about the fact he lies about it.

No, no!! Obama misspeaks and is mistaken. But never
lies. Not even on questionnaires with his own handwriting.

Now you have to apologize and fire yourself.
:smokin

[clambake]

if it weren't for that martin king fella, we wouldn't have efer heard a this baama dude.

damned uppity coloreds.

[Yonivore]

if it weren't for that martin king fella, we wouldn't have efer heard a this baama dude.

damned uppity coloreds.
You and Snoop Dog...

Snoop Dogg Claims KKK is Among Obama's Biggest Supporters (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/snoop%20dogg%20blasts%20obama_1064503)


The rapper, real name Calvin Broadus Jr., insists the Democratic candidate has received funding from historically anti-black organisation the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). He says, "The KKK gave Obama money. They was (sic) one of his biggest supporters... Why wouldn't they be? The media won't tell you that. They don't want you to know that. They just want you to know that this n**ger befriended this other n**ger who be (sic) threatening your values. "But we all know all presidents lie to get into f**king office. That's they (sic) job."
In case you hadn't heard, there's a segment of the black population which opposes Obama because whitey will be able to say there's no racism left. So to prove there is still racism, they want the black guy to lose. Odd, but I guess I get that.

And, in the case of Snoop Dog, pot is apparently a gateway drug to stupidity.

[Heath Ledger]

Snoop Dog for president! I'd vote for him.

Mr. President is it true you are going to legalize marijuana? Fo shizzle my dizzle...

[Ignignokt]

part of me wants to say, "ha ha!! that's what you get!" when ever i see liberal politicians being dissected over the dumbest unimportant things.

but the other part of me, actually the bigger part of me wants to just cringe when i think back at all the unfair criticism GW recieved, like the my pet goat one and that time when he was quizzed about some obscure leaders.

Seriously, this is all trivial bullshit. I am sitting here caring about the issues that affect me. i want to know if obama is for change, not wether he smokes virginia slims. this is all really pathetic.

if leftist wonder why people still defend bush up to this day, one only has to look at the past times when the left was just flinging mud at bush without regard and care for the facts. Once the left actually had valid criticisms, they weren't to be taken seriously, because the bush supporters saw the left as just an oppurtunistic ass trying to get one up on the opposition.

Let all this trivial bullshit go.


Who cares if bush didn't don a cape and get into his batmobile to prevent the planes from hitting. THere was nothing bush could do, that wasn't already being taken care of by the various govt agencies that actually have experience in those matters. Bush did the right thing by not panicking and showing that no matter what happens, terrorism will not interfere with our lives. America goes on.

and with the whole Barrack Obama, chain smoking. Get beside yourselves.

Better for a politician not to be truthful with a smoking habit, than a politician to be untruthful with shady real estate deals that ripped people off. hint hint, whitewater.

obama is not a bad man in my eyes.

i just think he's not the awnser, and his message is decieving.

[RandomGuy]

Now, a question for the OP that will not go away until answered:
How much of a ratings bump would running more than ONE minor bit on this non-news story get any news organization?

Second time this question has been asked.

Let's see if anyone with some common sense can answer it...

[Don Quixote]

I imagine maybe a little bit of a "ratings bump." I don't know. Barack certainly has a high "Q-rating." But I tend to think Americans are smarter than to care much either way over whether or not he smokes.

I don't know.

[Heath Ledger]

If someone really focuses in on the fact that he has a lot of bad habits, first he admitted to being a cokehead, now he cant shake his nicotine addiction, soon it will be booze if its not already.

[ChumpDumper]

It's important!

[Mr. Peabody]

If someone really focuses in on the fact that he has a lot of bad habits, first he admitted to being a cokehead, now he cant shake his nicotine addiction, soon it will be booze if its not already.

Well, at least we know his bad habits do not include smoking crack while getting head from a fat homosexual in the back of a limo.

[Yonivore]

Well, at least we know his bad habits do not include smoking crack while getting head from a fat homosexual in the back of a limo.
Actually, we don't know that. Sounds to me like his experiences could include just that.

[Wild Cobra]

No, no!! Obama misspeaks and is mistaken. But never
lies. Not even on questionnaires with his own handwriting.

Now you have to apologize and fire yourself.
:smokinActually, I think it's more about the fact he lies about it.
Did he lie about it? Well, now it wouldn't surprise me.

As I have pointed out in other threads, I don't like McCain or Hillary. I would vote for McCain if Hillary was the nominee, but I wasn't so concerned if Obama becaume president. Any of the three will screw our nation, so I'd rather it be a democrat, but Hillary scares me. And I don't scare easy...

Let me expand a little. This seems rather unusual since Obama is as liberal as they come. It's just that I thought he was an ethical democrat. Since the Wright incident, and a couple other things that have come to light. I changed my mind. He is very adept at lies and deception. Before, I thought his lack of experience would be tempered once he sat in that chair with the desire to do what was right, even though it would challenge his liberal nature. I no longer believe that.

Lies. Yes for me, ethics and integrity mean allot. That's why I support presidents Bush. He has shown himself to be very liberal on some policies and I really dislike that pat of him, but he is still a man of integrity. He is a good leader, even though he doesn't know how to talk right.

[JoeChalupa]

Actually, I think it's more about the fact he lies about it.

Oh, give me a freakin' break. :rolleyes Weak and lame.

[JoeChalupa]

Bush lies every time he opens his damn pie hole.

[Wild Cobra]

Bush lies every time he opens his damn pie hole.
Any proof besides other people lying saying that he lies?