OMG! Huge and I mean HUGE Obama scandal coming...he cheated and as recently as a few months ago...

[HardWorkingDem]

on trying to quit.......CIGARETTES!!!!!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-admits-sm.html


God, instead of ABC doing a story on how god damned addicting cigarettes are it does a gotcha piece on Obama sneaking a few puffs. What a bunch of shit and no wonder this fucking country is doomed.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Link not found?

So much for that scandal.

[HardWorkingDem]

18. Fixed the link.....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-admits-sm.html

[Rosemary2205]

2. the man is clearly a terrorist

[JDPriestly]

48. Actually, here is what Philip Morris's studies on the psychology

of smokers found:

http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/1000369089-9121.html

To the extent that smokers' personalities and life styles differ from those of nonsmokers, Dunn (1973) has pointed out that smokers are independent, antisocial, active and energetic, extraverted, impulsive, etc., and that they have more accidents, have poorer academic records, are more often male, etc.

The consequence of many of these descriptors for the two groups -- smoking adults and hyperactive children-- immediately suggests that the hyperctives may grow up to become cigarette smokers, and that the principal reason cigarette smokers appear to differ from non-smokers is that the smoking group contains most of the country's formerly hyperactive children, still showing many of the same characteristics they showed in childhood. It is furthermore tempting to suggest that in the past hyperactives adventitiously discovered that the stimulant characteristics of nicotine enables them to control some of their behavioral problems just as Ritalin does for today's children. Whether or not the nicotine suggestion is correct, the possiblity exists of accounting for some of the smoker-nonsmoker differences in terms of a hyperactive subgroup of smokers. Therefore we have been seeking a data source to provide us with a large sample of hyperactives who, at the time of their diagnosis, were too young to be smokers. We would then track these children until they reached smoking age, and compare the proportion of smokers among them with the proportion among a control group.

[Recursion]

50. This gets to the problem with peer pressure about smoking

The issue in teens smoking out of peer pressure isn't that smoking is cool, it's that smokers are cool.

[Rosemary2205]

61. My sister smokes like a chimney and is the complete opposite

follower, co-dependent, couch potato, shy, a little impulsive but also very cautious most of the time, never had any sort of accident, very intelligent, and obviously female.

[zippy890]

68. he sure is sexy

:*

[Ilsa]

3. Yeah, I've been trying to give up avocados myself.

They are soooo fattening! And I keep forgetting to put on my flag pin while I'm eating them.

[PBS Poll-435]

4. We have NEVER had a president that smokes.

Never, ever I tells ya.

[Heather MC]

10. George Washington was addicted to Opium

mmm mmm hash!
I am sure everyone did Coke back in the day hell it was in all those miricale cures people sold on the backs of trucks, and in the soda coke cocola!

[Bucky]

20. Um, no.

Washington didn't even smoke tobacco, much less opium. Were do people get this shit? Washington could knock back the brandy with the best of 'em and had a serious weakness for port that stained his ivory false teeth. But no, not opium and not hemp, either.

[Carnea]

24. Well the marijuana stuff comes from his diaries.

After all he separated the male and female plants on his farm. Which you wouldn't do if you were making rope.

[Bucky]

51. Actually, yes, you would. Washington was a scientific farmer & constantly experimented with breeds

Washington cross bred and tried to refine better strains in just about every plant he could get his hands on--except for tobacco which he didn't grow except for a few seasons when he really needed the cash (he thought it was bad for the soil & was right). In the case of the hemp plants, given how lucrative a plant it was for rope manufacturing, he did record his efforts at cross breeding male & female plants and stated explicitly in his diary that he wanted to harvest a better rope product.

Besides, smoking pot wasn't illegal or even considered antisocial back then. If Washington ever did it, he'd have no reason to omit it from his records (he was a compulsive diarist). There is simply not a shred of evidence that Washington smoked marijuana.

But thanks for playing.

[PBS Poll-435]

29. He also pooped in a pot.

Just sayin.

[Captain Hilts]

15. No, never!

[Carnea]

19. Yeah but the kids history books has the cigarette photoshopped out.

No shit....

[Captain Hilts]

30. Those doctored pix make it look like FDR is snarling. nt

[PBS Poll-435]

22. LOL

Never, ever

[SwampG8r]

31. never?

[PBS Poll-435]

32. An obvious PhotoChop

:P

And you do know I was joking, right?

[SwampG8r]

59. of course i did

[Bake]

34. President Jed Bartlett like to sneak a smoke now and then.

Even stomped one out in the National Cathedral.

Bake

[Bucky]

52. Jed Bartlett? Pu-lease

Everyone knows he was Diebold's man for his whole seven year term.

[Clark2008]

5. Let 'em write that story

That will endear him to all those working-class voters who seemed not to like him during the primaries.

[underpants]

6. This is a bad thing?

Hell if he corners the smoker vote his is even more of a lock

[Blue_Roses]

44. LOL! so true...

now my husband may pay more attention to the GE since he's been trying desperately to quit.

[newmajority]

7. ABC seems to be in serious competition with FAUX these days

Between that joke of a debate with Chuckles and Snuffy, to last week's Nightline hit piece, to this crap. They might actually be more blatantly hateful than FAUX. (With the exception of Hannity, who still thinks Rev. Wright is relevant)

[Rosemary2205]

13. You can't count Hannity

Fox keeps him on to get that Tax credit for hiring the handicapped.

[ginnyinWI]

33. I used to trust ABC--but no more.

You'd think they'd have gotten a whiff of the coming Democratic majority that's in the air and stopped trying to be a major network version of FOX.

[readmoreoften]

66. ABC is in complicity with conservatives. They changed their political director 2 years ago.

I believe Mark Halperin is his name. It was all over FAIR.org. He promised conservative christians he'd deliver their point of view.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. I admit I cheated too

It was during the Texas primary/caucus. It was the stress of herding all those damn cats!

All my hopes of ever being POTUS are now shot to hell. :cry:

[hfojvt]

9. there goes his progressive cred

there it goes again

[Richbru]

11. I agree we are doomed

if Obama is elected!!!

[Captain Hilts]

12. Well, here are exhibits A and B that smoking...

will ruin your brain....NOT!

[devilgrrl]

14. Uhh, * and Pickles smoke too.

It may be crack but they still smoke.

[Symarip]

16. I quit smoking 12 days ago

I know his pain well. I haven't lapsed yet, but I'm scared everyday that i just might.

[Carnea]

17. Honestly there are people around here who feel affairs are a private matter but smoking?

[caledesi]

21. Puhleeze..NOT THIS TIME! Laura Bush still smokes. Course,

we never hear of this!

[1Hippiechick]

53. I told my hubby that I thought she was a smoker--tell-tale lines around her lips.....:)

[Xenocrates]

23. OMG!

He needs a nicotine recharge now and then. Obama is human. How normal is that?

[PBS Poll-435]

25. Larry Craig

Smokes Pole

:hide:

[Tinksrival]

47. Ha!

:spank:

[Auggie]

26. Last thing we need is a cranky Democratic nominee.

[JDPriestly]

27. Most people have to "quit" a number of times before really kicking cigarettes

This just proves how perfidiously addictive cigarettes really are.

As for former presidents, they may have smoked but until fairly recently they did not smoke the hyped up products that the cigarette industry sold in modern times. The products they sold were not nearly as addictive, not nearly as chock full of poisonous chemicals.

Here is the part of the article that amazed me:

The release of a scant one-page summary for 21 years of care brought some criticism to the Obama campaign – especially when compared to the thousands of pages of medical records released by McCain. Obama promised reporters that if there are additional health-related questions, his campaign would make that information available. “In terms of additional records, if there are particular things that people have questions about, then we’d be happy to give that information,” he said.

Obama is young and healthy. He has probably always been quite healthy.

McCain's thousands of pages of medical records attest to his bad health, not his openness.

My medical record would not be that long, and I am 65 years old.

My mother's record at the age of 91 would not be anywhere near as long as McCain's.

The thousands of pages mean McCain is not in good health. How can ABC turn this against Obama? I hope Media Matters takes this one on.

[Median Democrat]

28. Obama Also Looks Dorky Riding His Bike With His Kids...

Kind of the way I, or any other middle class father looks when we are trying to keep up with a young brood. It is odd that the RW classify Obama as an elitist, yet they then rip on his fashion sense in riding a bike with a baby trailer (geek-chic) in jeans, rather than in European bike racer spandex like W.

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[SwampG8r]

35. well he DOES need air in that back tire

i mean .......im just saying

[HardWorkingDem]

37. He probably needed the extra air from the tire after...

sneaking those world ending puffs!

[1Hippiechick]

55. And FAUX News was wrong -he is NOT wearing black socks! BTW, those are training wheels around Shrub

:rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. In the White House!!! What will the neighbors think???

[Carnea]

41. In teh cause of uniting the party I WILL NOT caption that photo.

But I really Really want to.....

:dilemma:

[1Hippiechick]

56. Awwwww....come on.....it IS a scene from GWTW........

[Carnea]

70. Alright you win

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7821030&mesg_id=7821513

[1Hippiechick]

71. OMG, this is hilarious! ROFL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[knixphan]

38. why don't disney and fox just merge and form the BS network...?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

39. Bill Clinton smoked cigars...and so does Rush Limpballs!!! n/t

[Bucky]

54. Yeh, but for Rush he's compensating for something. For Clinton, well...

I think it was just foreplay.

[1Hippiechick]

58. Hmmmmm....hope BHO doesn't smoke THOSE kinds of cigars.......

oopss.. misspelling.....and still didn't correct it!

[Longtooth]

40. If that's all they can dig up

count him lucky! It is damn hard to come up the political chain and not have something really bad connected to you in some why or other.

[RichardRay]

42. I had been a non-smoker for years until the first recess in my court-martial.

I went directly out to the lobby (under guard) and found a cigarette machine, bought a pack of Marlboro's and smoked three of them in a row before we went back into session.

I can easily understand the recente primary season driving someone just trying to quit to sneaking a smoke. His 'body man' carries a supply of Nicorette, maybe he was out that day?

[1Hippiechick]

72. What was the outcome of your trial, and was this during VietNam?

[RichardRay]

73. Yep, 1971.

Guilty on two charges and not guilty on a whole raft of much more interesting ones. While on active duty in the military I was involved in an organizing effort among active duty military, ran a discharge counseling service that published a newspaper and ran a bookstore. Somebody into obscure Movement history might remember the Chicago Area Military Project (CAMP). The civilian cadre I worked with came out of that group.

One year hard in military slam. I have a Federal felony record from it, but it really makes no difference in my life. The one bummer is that under the Homeland Security rules I can no longer be involved in avalanche hazard reduction work using explosives and artillery. I really loved to shoot that howitzer :-).

[LordJFT]

43. i heard a rumor about this last summer

kind of disappointing, but hopefully after the stress of the election is over he'll be able to finally quit completely

[Virginia Dare]

45. Has Pickles kicked her habit yet?

I actually hope the MSM does make a big hairy deal out of this, then maybe we can delve back into Commander AWOL's various un-named addictions.

[readmoreoften]

67. Has Pickles kicked her habit of what? Running over and killing her boyfriends?

I won't take that where I want to go with it.

[4themind]

46. Talk about a smoke screen

in lieu of time spent writing on relatively more vital stories to our country's interests

[pink-o]

49. I quit smoking when I was 26

...and up to the last cig I ever had, I would quit, start, quit, start--a total yo-yo.

I can't imagine how much harder it is to quit @ 46, when the habit is so much deeper ingrained. And to quit when you're under the stress of a presidential campaign--hell, that just might've made me start up again, after being the health-nut I've become in the last 27 years!

But truly: if this is all they have on Obama, then bring it on! He'll keep brushing it off his shoulder, right into the Oval Office in January!

[KharmaTrain]

57. And It's Also Been Rumored...

He fathered two black children.

And he masticates regularly.

And what do we tell the children? Oh the horrors...

:sarcasm:

[Rosemary2205]

63. snort

[Wizard777]

60. The second he's sworn in the Republican will want to impeach him for this and Rezko.

Hell the Republicans will want impeach him just for taking the oath.

[undeterred]

62. An oral craving that should not keep him out of the oval.

:kick:

[Mrs. Overall]

64. Hey, this is the most civil smoking thread I've ever seen on DU!

[Cleita]

65. Let's see first it was flag lapel pins and now it's cheating

by indulging in tobacco. The RW doesn't have anything to throw at him do they? Time to go after McCain with a double headed battle axe. There are plenty of sins there to accuse him of starting with adultery and ending with abetting a war criminal and murderer, George W. Bush. Let the games begin.

[cap]

69. Well, at least he admitted that he inhaled...

:)