Old acquaintances remember Democratic hopeful as a model of moderation
Nearly three decades ago, Barack Obama stood out on the small campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles for his eloquence, intellect and activism against apartheid in South Africa. But Mr. Obama, then known as Barry, also joined in the party scene.
Years later in his 1995 memoir, he mentioned smoking “reefer” in “the dorm room of some brother” and talked about “getting high.” Before Occidental, he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student in Hawaii, according to the book. He made “some bad decisions” as a teenager involving drugs and drinking, Senator Obama, now a presidential candidate, told high school students in New Hampshire last November.
Mr. Obama’s admissions are rare for a politician (his book, “Dreams From My Father,” was written before he ran for office.) They briefly became a campaign issue in December when an adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama’s chief Democratic rival, suggested that his history with drugs would make him vulnerable to Republican attacks if he became his party’s nominee.
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Is that really the best they can do? Buhh, this shit isn't going to work so well this time around.
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Monica, Cigars, and Bills cock played a part in Clinton's life.
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>>672951 Someone post the picture that says:
"Stupid bitch, your weapons can't hurt me"
Just for teh lulz.
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And President Bush's excessive alcohol use and cocaine snorting didn't make him vulnerable?
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Bush did coke and was an awful stupid.
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>>673000 Bush did coke and was an awful stupid.He's smarter than you apparently.
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Smear campaign or trolling?
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a politician telling the truth is certainly a bad thing.
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Obama's life is actually A LOT like Bush's they both abused drugs. Of course, the difference is that Obama wasn't cured by "religion" but by pyschological maturity.
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>>673033 Also, Obama did not bankrupt 5 companies that his daddy gave him.
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>>673003 Meh, being told what to say isn't smart.
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>>673033 Bush still drinks a lot.
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>>673054 Actually, he can't. When the queen of England paid a state visit to the white house, and everyone was supposed to make a toast with champagne or a shot of scotch or something. But Bush did it with a glass of water.
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It was pretty clever of him to admit to the "bad" things he had done BEFORE entering politics. You can't use those things against him nearly as well as you could have if he had not talked about it.
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Drink Jenkem, it makes you feel like you're the President of U.S.A.
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>>673098 Not really, he admitted in his book that he did cocaine every time he could afford it, and this was for several years. Sure the truth is already out, but he's going to look like a fucking crackhead nigger. Which he apparently was.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't want another president with a cocaine and booze addiction. Bush obviously has some kind of permanently reduced functioning, and while Obama is more coherent I'm just sick of the fucking druggie culture getting into politics and misrepresenting America.
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>I'm just sick of the fucking druggie culture getting into politics and misrepresenting America. then you obviously don't know america. how is- bible school these days?
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>>673197 >>then you obviously don't know america. how is- bible school these days? Oh what the fuck is this shit, a fucking pothead trying to spread your pro-Communist free love agenda? Fuck you, libfag cocksucker.
I'm in California, knee deep in niggers, spics, medical marijuana "clinics" and pot clubs. Whatever the fuck this shit is, it's a fucking cancer and makes America look like shit.
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i actually like how he is so honest. he understands users better than other candidates. but that doesnt mean hes going to legalize, quite the opposite.
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>>673208 >Oh what the fuck is this shit, a fucking pothead trying to spread your pro-Communist free love agenda? Fuck you, libfag cocksucker. LOL?? OVERREACT MUCH FAGGOT?
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>>673208 Oh get off your high horse you pompous ass. Drugs and drug use have been a part of American life since its fucking inception. Just because you got your ass beaten raw as a teen when Poppa caught you sneaking a sip of beer doesn't give you some grand fucking moral authority over the rest of the nation.
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>>673238 BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWL U HURT MAH FEEWINGS
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ITT: People who twice voted for Bush goes apeshit over stimulants.
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>>673208 //Trolling:Successful
/Trolled: Angry
Mission: Accomplished
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>>673238 Stormfags tend to.
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>>673208 spoilers: It's morons such as yourself that makes America look like shit.
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>>673244 Are you serious? How was he "bawwww"ing?
gb2/Gaia/ and learn your memes, retard.
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>>673208 You obviously:
- Haven't been to the rest of the world to see how they look at drugs. If you had, you'd know they don't really give a shit
- Haven't realized how much the rest of the world hates conservafags like you
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>>673238 >>673254 Same bawwwwwling faggot.
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Obama could deftly turn any attack on his prior drug use into a debate on drug policy. Perhaps with someone of a younger generation who grew up on drugs in office we could finally see the needed reforms of normalcy implemented.
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>>673263 >bawwwwwling >ling I see the newfags are out in force tonight.
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>>673240 What the fuck, I know drugs have been a part of life worldwide since we fucking discovered we could get high. Nobody is refuting that, you fucking inbred faggot.
Can't I complain when some tree-hugging, animal fucking lefty liberal shows his approval for drugs? Sure we could all sit around getting high off our ass every day and never take responsibility for our lives like these Woodstock rejects want, or we could join modern society and have meaningful lives without a chemical crutch to help us hobble along as incomplete people.
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>>673404 And so putting people in jail is more productive than letting them be.
Right.
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>>673404 Because being on 4chan is productive?
>>he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student Just like Bush, right?
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>>673404 and have meaningful lives without a chemical crutch to help us hobble along as incomplete people.
Just like the millions of people who are using their prescribed mind-altering pharmaceuticals as crutches, amirite?
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ITT, the truth is revealed. The only people who support Obama on /n/ are the same three faggot potheads.
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>>673430 wow.
he's changed his life.. how about you, stormfronter? oh, nvm.
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"When I was a kid, I inhaled. That was the point." - Obama
>>673430 zomg.. a president that tells the truth!!!
Pepe !!MjPnDqPolTA
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>>673472 lulz, you're mexican.
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>>673442 Telling the truth about POT SMOKING when he was 17 isn't the same as telling the truth about government policies. Understand, faggot?
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>>673508 oh noes! Lying about dead "heroes", torture and WMD's isn't nearly as bad as blowjobs & doobies.
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>>673521 You'll get plenty more lies about "heroes" and torture with or without Obama. Now suck it up, faggot.
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>Oh what the fuck is this shit, a fucking pothead trying to spread your pro-Communist free love agenda? Fuck you, libfag cocksucker. >Nobody is refuting that, you fucking inbred faggot. RAGE!! ITT 4chan is 4chan
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I'm a noble stormfront knight, and i'm actually very happy Obama has a chance of getting the nomination, or even becoming president of USA. After all, no one can turn people into racists, better than a nigger. I foresee people having their awakenings to the truth about niggers by the tens millions during his 4-year term. So yeah, i'll be voting for him, if he gets the nomination.
OOH, but his middle name's HUSSEIN! and he goes to a RACIST SEPARATIST CHURCH! And..and...he's secretly a MUSLIM! lolfail
anonymous of athens !SysNpnp3nU
Potheads = Hippie fucktards who believe in free love and interracial union. Probably believe all races are equal too, LOL!
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>>675230 The Second thru Fifty-Millionth coming of Jesus have happened in the south and most of US never noticed.
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>>675245 racists = people who believe in ethnic and familial inbreeding
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/r/'ing the pic of that niglet starving in africa with the bucket of KFC superimposed on it.
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>>673411 Yes, putting criminals in jail is more productive then letting them run rampant on the general public, terrorizing people who have a potential to make worthy contributions to soceity. You are correct.
>>673419 Exactly, which is why Obama's potential to fail is just as good as Bush's. Both aren't serious about the presidency, both are easily swayed by business/advisors/pressure, both have a history of drug and alcohol abuse. And this election is about getting RID of Bush, not replacing him with a darker skinned version of the same thing.
>>673424 Typical potfag misdirection, comparing recreational use of drugs to prescription medication. People take SSRIs so they don't hear voices and flip out, or blood thinning medication so they don't have a stroke. That isn't recreational, it's essential.
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>>675279 ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT RAPING MY SISTER WAS THE WRONG MOVE???
>>675309 >Exactly, which is why Obama's potential to fail is just as good as Bush's. newsflash: bush phailed a long time ago.
>>675309 >BAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I WAS THE FAT KID WHO WAS NEVER INVITED TO PARTIES IN COLLEGE, HENCE WHY-OH WAIT, I DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE Anonymous
>>675319 >Uh oh, I'm losing the argument pretty badly here. Better rant on about what a party animal then go and collect my welfare check and blow it all on weed. fixed for ya, pothead fag.
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>>673193 Remember how Bush was a cokehead cracker, yet he was elected twice?
WELL DUM DE DUM DUMM
>>675326 >Uh, oh he pressed a nerve there, better try not to expose how butthurt I am - oh whatever, it's useless BAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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>>675316 Did you just spell 'fail' with a ph?
Please kill yourself.
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>>675341 >Better use the third person to pretend I'm a different person! Tee-hee! fixed.
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>>673404 Proud Conservative, is that you?
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>>675319 >WHO WAS NEVER INVITED TO PARTIES IN COLLEGE Everyone gets invited to pretty much every party at my university. There aren't really 'invitations', there's just an event and you go with a couple of friends and meet up with another couple of friends, if it's a house party the same kind of thing happens.
Also, the potheads are always the most antisocial of the lot, sitting in a corner thinking their inordinate rambling is 'deep'.
>>675349 >Better to make inane statements to cover up my failure! BAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW Anonymous
>>675355 >Better make inane statements to cover up my failure. fixe.... oh wait.
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>>675362 I'm glad you are coming to a self-realization.
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>>675354 Hahaha, so true.
The best remark, that every pothead has stated at one point or another is 'yeh mannnn, the world is like.... so BIG... yehhhh'.
gb2 your macbook airs potheads, no one else gives a shit about your bullshit.
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>>675354 exactly, party invitations are unceremonial and retarded. It's a party culture, that's cancerous.
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When did this conversation (and I use that term loosely) degenerate into talking about potheads at college parties? Potheads are usually a waste of life, and Obama isn't one anymore. Furthermore, how fucking stupid does someone have to be to compare them to Bush. None of the candidates are as stupid as Bush.
>>673208 FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
If you hate California so much gtfo. Go move to Alabama with your fellow stormfags
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>>675309 Potheads terrorize people?
lulz, either epic troll or a 14 year old moralfag.
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lol @ whole thread.
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