Obama is Smokin'

ABC News ^ | April 03, 2008 | Jake Tapper

[george76]

Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol.

This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents...

Frankly, he reeked of cigarettes.

Obama ran off before I could ask him if he'd just snuck a smoke, so I called his campaign.

They denied it. He'd quit months before, in February, they insisted.

They reported back that he had told them he hadn't had a cigarette since he quit.

Except….last night on MSNBC's Hardball, Obama admitted that his attempt to wean himself from the vile tobacco weed had not been entirely successful.

It's not a big deal in the scheme of things -- the war on Iraq, a major economic crisis -- indeed, it's miniscule. Hardly worth mentioning.

Except that I don't like feeling that I wasn't being dealt with honestly.

And as much as citizens who are suspect of the media might scoff at such a notion, many of us consider ourselves to be your representatives to help make sure our leaders are telling us the truth, and leading the country down a path we're confident is the right one.

(Corny, I know.)

[MEGoody]

Except that I don't like feeling that I wasn't being dealt with honestly.

Come on, Jake. You're either very ignorant or not being honest yourself in making this statement. No one in the right mind would believe that Obama is being honest about anything.

[sam_paine]

So?

[A. Morgan]

[Old Sarge]

What’s he smokin’?

[cherry]

If Barry smoked, it would certainly be a plus in my book...and I hate smoking....

it might be the one truely independent,American thing that he practices...

now, if he secretly drank beer from a can and watched Nascar, he'd be a shoe-in.

[jpl]

Since liberals seem to now regard cigarette smokers as among the world’s worst monsters, it’ll be interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance on this particular front.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

[stylin19a]

so why didn’t you write this article last August ?

[TornadoAlley3]

[Names Ash Housewares]

Stress and pressure are getting to him.
He hasn’t quit, he can’t quit, and he won’t.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if it is more then tobacco he he is smoking.

[tampacon]

Yeah,so? Laura Bush still smokes!

[CaptainK]

It’s currently the worst evil in the world.

If elected he’ll have to smoke in the Rose Garden.

[beandog]

And you know this because? I have heard nothing about Laura smoking. Quite frankly I could care less who smokes, I smoke, it’s legal. What I don’t like is people who lie.

[goodnesswins]

I also read somewhere that Laura Bush does smoke.

[beandog]

It seems to me if Laura smoked we’d hear about it every single day.

[impimp1]

Every Republican ad should include a photo of Obama smoking.

[mysterio]

It’s difficult to quit, I’m getting ready to try again. Not voting Obama, though.

[goodnesswins]

I don’t think she smokes in public....in other words...you never see a picture of her smoking, because the only place she smokes is where there are NO cameras.....

[george76]

[hosepipe]

With some.. smoking is WORSE than lying or stealing or even being Queer..

[Chode]

and to the RATS, that's WORSE than taking drugs and cheating on his wife...

[ProfoundMan]

because the only place she smokes is where there are NO cameras.....

It's the same for all of us smokers. At least I don't think there are cameras!

[sam_paine]

REally? Good for her. I think W ought to roll up in a rocking chair on the south lawn and light a burley and brite briar wood up in front of the code pinkos.

[reagan_fanatic]

[A. Morgan]

LOL

[wardaddy]

Tapper probably wanted to blow him but the smoke killed it for his pompous cakeboy arse.

[wardaddy]

Laura smokes.

[RooRoobird20]

LOL, if Hillary is smart, she’ll keep posting pictures everywhere of Obama smoking cigarettes. That’ll stick a fork in him. LOLOL

It’s okay to be a racist, a radical abortion(infanticide) activist, a foreign policy ignoramus, a tax and spend leftist, an uber-socialist, and an angry anti-capitalist. But a cigarette smoker?!? Now that’s unforgivable!!! ROFLOL

[andyandval]

Modified Rolling Stone cover photo...

[death2tyrants]

Obama is a victim of smoking. Tobbacco was yet another creation by the U.S. government to wipe out the black race./s

[Sig Sauer P220]

Yeah,so? Laura Bush still smokes!

No way! She can't be a smoker and look that good at her age. Susan Estrich, now theres the prototypical middle aged smoker "woman".

[andy58-in-nh]

WOW. Did you do that?

[uglybiker]

He iss vaht?!!
Zis vill noot do!

[y6162]

“Except that I don’t like feeling that I wasn’t being dealt with honestly.”

So Jake..on the Wright thing..20 years a church member..Obambi didn’t know Wright was antisemetic? Anti American? Crazy? What about that Jake?

[biff]

Keep trying. I finally quit 15 months ago after 40 years. The one good thing I often think about is the gov no longer is screwing me on their crazy taxes. Other than that, boy, food tastes sooooooooo good now.

[Enchante]

as usual it’s the lying cover-up that’s worse than the ‘crime’

fwiw, I could not care less whether or not he smokes, but he should lie about it.....

I’m glad to say I have never smoked, but while I intensely dislike cigarette smoke I do not hold it against people when they smoke so long as they are respectful of others, don’t strew their butts around, etc.

Only liberals seem to be on this rabid campaign to destroy smokers and smoking forever.

[cmsgop]

I quit 5 months ago, Chantix™ it was easy, I smoked for 20 years.

[Old Lady]

Pst 36, congratulations! I quit 21 years ago and still can’t believe I did it. Good for you!

[Richard Kimball]

I agree. She’s pretty hot.

[adopt4Christ]

I too have recently heard that Laura Bush is a “closet smoker”. I have always wondered — because she has “smoker wrinkles” around her lips. Take another look at pics of her. I can always tell. (So does Judge Judy).

[george76]

Tobacco was yet another creation by the U.S. government to wipe out the black race.

/s

8-)

[george76]

Excellent

[george76]

Thanks.

Well done

[beckysueb]

I have a prescription for that stuff. It really works, huh?

[beckysueb]

Seems to me we have a lot more to worry about with Obama than his smoking.

[TigersEye]

How much did Hillary pay you, Jake?

[cmsgop]

It did for me, I took it for 2 months, I smoked for 7 of those weeks and starting the 8th week thats when I quit. I like the way I did it because I was slowly smoking less and less so by the time the quit date came it was easy. I had no side effects either.

[geege]

Hysterical.....reminded me of “History of the World” ending....”Roman Red”

[geege]

Yea but I still miss vino and a smoke....