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Obama’s Sordid High School Past
Breitbart ^ | 5/10/12 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/10/2012 11:52:21 AM PDT by Nachum

While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days.

Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.

In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.”

Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:

"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me," Obama said. "I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …

"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. 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.”

The New York Times, however, went out of its way

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Guess he "got high and he missed it"
1 posted on 05/10/2012 11:52:25 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Hussein was gonna bash the queers.
Gonna pull the wedgies up to their ears.
But instead turned into a steer,
(Why?)
Cuz he got high, cuz he got high, cuz he got high


2 posted on 05/10/2012 11:55:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum

goofing off” and “wasting time

he never stopped


3 posted on 05/10/2012 11:55:29 AM PDT by molson209
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To: Nachum

He’s still goofing off.......


4 posted on 05/10/2012 11:56:12 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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5 posted on 05/10/2012 12:00:04 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Experimenting with drugs, huh? So it was like science.


6 posted on 05/10/2012 12:01:22 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Nachum

“Youthful indiscretions” they’ll call it.

...Except when it comes to a conservative, of course.


7 posted on 05/10/2012 12:07:49 PM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Nachum
"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school ..."

Some things never change ....


8 posted on 05/10/2012 12:08:08 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: AppyPappy

How many “experiments” did he conduct...or is still conducting?


9 posted on 05/10/2012 12:10:00 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Nachum; All

That’s the tip of the iceberg.
Read every sordid thing we know about Obama

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http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIconography.htm

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10 posted on 05/10/2012 12:11:33 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08
The growing list of putrescence from the Lord of the Flies.
11 posted on 05/10/2012 12:12:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Nachum

Do we know with certainty what high school obama went to?


12 posted on 05/10/2012 12:18:11 PM PDT by virgil
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To: Nachum

Goof off, heavy drug user? And how exactly did he get accepted at Occidental?


13 posted on 05/10/2012 12:25:33 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)
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To: Nachum
"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. 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.”

If not for affirmative action, how does such a person get into college, let alone Harvard?
14 posted on 05/10/2012 12:27:16 PM PDT by rottndog (Be Prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
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To: patriot08

self ping


15 posted on 05/10/2012 12:27:34 PM PDT by advertising guy ( Slo Joe Biden " I promise you the President has a big stick, but Michelle's is bigger ")
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To: onedoug

That’s what I wonder! This pothead business alone could explain his signature “detachment” persona thought to be so cool and ethreal among those in all of the so-called right circles. (I mean LEFT circles.)


16 posted on 05/10/2012 12:35:43 PM PDT by RitaOK (Nevermind, Newt. Forget the convention. I'm trusting God for the rest.)
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To: yoe

“He’s still goofing off.......”

He’s still wasting time. Ours.


17 posted on 05/10/2012 1:11:36 PM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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To: rottndog
If not for affirmative action, how does such a person get into college, let alone Harvard?

Its pretty easy to get into college. If a HS screw-off like me could do it....

Getting a DEGREE, however, is a whole 'nother story.

18 posted on 05/10/2012 1:15:32 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Nachum
He is:

1. Queer

2. Marxist

3. Drug addict

4. Liar

5. Anti-American

6. Anti-Military (unless it serves his ego (...they're working for me!)

7. Guilty of treason

8. Guilty of receiving bribes

9. Muslim

19 posted on 05/10/2012 1:36:54 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Nachum

The media doesn’t care what Obama did in the past. They are only happy he supports gay marriage.


20 posted on 05/10/2012 1:39:40 PM PDT by FreedBird
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