Video & Multimedia
Related: About this forumPic Of The Moment: Anti-Pot Sen. Rubio (R) Performs Epic Dodge When Asked If He Ever Smoked It
Did he inhale? Marco Rubio won't say whether he ever smoked marijuana
Follow @demunderground
Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)So did Obama, Bill Clinton, and likely Hillary. So did most of those in congress right now. I sure did, most people I know did.
How about just being honest. Did it and did not inhale is laughable unless you're talking about Brownies or some other baked good.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I thought you knew that.
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)Gee, I sure hope not. Maybe he's making a height reference.
-- Mal
Rambis
(7,774 posts)maybe he would discover he has a soul?
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Only I don't think this guy is ever gonna give us a "nugget" of truth.
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)chollybocker
(3,687 posts)TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)re immigration, health care, women, voting, ha ha ha
LittleGirl
(8,277 posts)bwahaaahaaa...I know there are some smart teens out there but they wouldn't be paying attention to politics and who said what.
I know there are exceptions to this but frankly, I think it's comical how these politicians think teens pay attention. So full of themselves.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
MADem
(135,425 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)yes, that makes me sound like a cat. So be it.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Maybe he's been hanging out with that Miley Cyrus!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I got dry mouth.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)zebonaut
(3,688 posts)TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)Drugs of choice were cocaine and alcohol. Daddy still made sure he was selected....
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)"Did a 16 year old Marco Rubio get away with breaking the law?"
"Strike that question; Did a 16 year old Marco Rubio deserve jail time? If your answer is 'no'; Why does a 16 year old kid today risk such a sentence?" (the only defensible justification for saying "no" is that the kid broke the law on pot but Rubio never did that)
"If yes, are you willing now to accept the very limited punishment of having to admit to acting stupidly?"
"Is it one standard for all Senator Rubio, yes or no? Why should you skate free for breaking a law you want to see enforced?"
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)in jail on pot charges can use your response "it's irrelevant". Yes, Marco, it is a two-tiered justice system.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)I can't get caught lying just now
Arkana
(24,347 posts)gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)If he said just one word, "Nope," he wouldn't look nearly as guilty as he does with that super long explanation of why he's pleading the fifth. That pic is hilarious!
Thav
(946 posts)He should have said, "No." Instead of "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....."
The difference in the two being the responses of "Pfft, he probably did." and "Wow, what a liar, he was probably baked his entire teenage years."
But he tried to save his position against pot, and used his pulpit to dig a huge hole for himself instead.
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)I have never been impressed with Rubio. I really think that he lacks the intelligence to be a strong candidate.
tomg
(2,574 posts)Dems, Repub, Independents, Greens, Democratic Socialists ( like me), and most use the same nonsensical excuse. Repubs say "I won't answer because then kids might see it as blah blah blah." Dems say "I did, but you shouldn't because blah blah blah." In other words, "you will screw up your life."
Really? Everybody I currently know smoked weed, and I am 64. My friends are lawyers and doctors and carpenters and teachers and artists and plumbers and social workers and so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie ( always liked Sly). We all got high. Lots of us still get high.
The difference between me and my kids? They knew enough not to get high ( or drink, thank XXX) and drive by the time they had a license.
I wish the politicians - all of them - would all say "I got high, but I am not going to legalize it until I figure out how I can get some lobbyist money."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Sinnakka
(13 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 11, 2014, 05:24 PM - Edit history (1)
I would like to call Rubio's answer a French "NO".
PDittie
(8,322 posts)(Sorry, Hillary folks.)
Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)Does he think that by "slyly" denying it, he has a chance at become the POTUS? Yea, right.............
Response to EarlG (Original post)
bucolic_frolic This message was self-deleted by its author.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He didn't stop make dumb decision when he was 17 and 18 and 16 (Who the hell counts like that?)
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)the fade-out of the text and then the BIG FAT letters. Love it
Cha
(296,775 posts)Why didn't he just lie? It wouldn't be the first time or the last.
tavernier
(12,368 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Hey Rube...see, right in front of you, pile of shit?!?
OH...stepped right in it!
Idiot.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Describing the size of the biggest joint he smoked
High right here
confused
hallucinations
sweating
laughing at anything
paranoid
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)They played "Marco" "Rubio" instead of "Marco" "Polo." 'Cause they was hammered.
Que idiota.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)Didn't get that one right either.
So you figure that he should be honest about whether he has ever smoked some dubbigge.
RandySF
(58,444 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Almost
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)But no. Not really.
rocktivity
(44,571 posts)TeamPooka
(24,204 posts)gerogie2
(450 posts)I remember many years ago there was an rabid anti-abortion congressman that screamed about abortion being murder. Then it turned out he had paid 2 or 3 women a few thousand dollars each to have an abortion.
thesquanderer
(11,970 posts)... then I think the next question is, why does he think people won't believe him?
According to the statistics I've seen, somewhere between about 40% and 60% of American adults have never tried pot. If Rubio claimed to be among them, why shouldn't people believe him? Does he think he has a credibility problem? It seems that would be a bigger issue for a candidate than whether or not he ever smoked pot.
So my followup: "Senator Rubio, you say people wouldn't believe you. Why do you think it is that people find you untrustworthy?"
(Of course, the real reason for not wanting to say No is that he knows that it somehow may come out in the future that he did smoke pot; and what's worse than saying you smoked pot? Saying you didn't and then being shown to be a liar.)
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)And he got spanked bad by the teabags, they skeered him off. I hope he's the only one left standing though when they have the gop primary massacre in 16.