"I experimented with drugs"
Posted on 11/20/2007 10:44:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama: I Tried Drugs As a Teen
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.
Obama stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central High School and answered students' questions about the war in Iraq and his education plan. But when an adult asked about his time as a student, Obama spoke bluntly.
"I will confess to you, I was kind of a goof-off in high school. My Mom reminds me of that," said Obama, an Illinois Democrat who grew up in Hawaii
"You know, I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs," he said. "There was a whole stretch of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot. It wasn't until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing, 'Man, I wasted a lot of time.'"
Obama has written about his drug use in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father."
"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.
Drugs, Obama wrote, were a way he "could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."
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There's that ol' race card again. Politics aside, I wouldn't vote for him just because of the whine.
Sorry Obama...I’m guessing that’s not the dirt hillary has on you...
I think he more than experimented, i.e., spent a couple years as a functioning doper. That said, I don’t think it is a disqualifier as many of my successful peers were....
Me.
I hope I’m not alone here.
I also didn’t have sex before marriage.
Hard to imagine it’s a “bomb”, given that he wrote about it in his already-published book.
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man,”
Is it just me, or is the term “junkie” most commonly associated with people who shoot heroin?
I’m curious about the timing of this. Would it have anything to do with the “dirt” leak from the Clintonistas?
Can someone please translate this sentence for me?
"I experimented with drugs"
Me. Did none in H.S. Went into the navy and just did booze until I ended by tour.
Osama Hussein playing to the MTV space cadets, I see.
I wonder if he’ll be labeled a “ne’er-do-well fratboy” or something similar.
Dennis Miller said one time, “Do we really want a President who PASSED on the bong?”
;)
I didn't either.
I think the poster may have meant, “who care’s” more so than a literal question. It makes no difference these days.
I did not.
Hillary didn’t. She waited until her mid-twenties before she got hooked on the ugly pills.
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