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Obama: I Tried Drugs As a Teen
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cocaine; obama; potheads
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

Me. Didn't drink alcohol until I was legally allowed to.

I didn't complain about others using drugs/alcohol in my presence. I went to parties, I was offered, I politely refused, then continued to enjoy the party. People that didn't know me occasionally made a comment about me being a "narc" (or similar), but my friends would explain that I was cool with it.

161 posted on 11/20/2007 12:31:14 PM PST by kidd
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To: Lexington Green
No. Who would want to get high with her?

Maybe she used 'em to get strawberries.

162 posted on 11/20/2007 12:35:09 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

I didn't and neither did most of my classmates.

163 posted on 11/20/2007 12:38:03 PM PST by pt17
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To: Sub-Driver

Man, in front of a High School crowd? Why not just say “Hey, go ahead and get stoned an piss away high school. You coud STILL become President someday.”


164 posted on 11/20/2007 12:39:25 PM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"You know, I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs," he said.

"experimented", huh?

Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.

That is WAY past the definition of "experimenting". That is plain "using".

165 posted on 11/20/2007 12:42:55 PM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: 1rudeboy
If he thinks he’s trying to ingratiate himself with me, he should think again. :)

If he thinks he’s trying to ingratiate himself with me, he should drink again. :)

166 posted on 11/20/2007 12:46:35 PM PST by HHFi
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To: ConorMacNessa

Probably,its better he dumps his dirty laundry now while he can control it then let Hillary handle it.


167 posted on 11/20/2007 12:53:13 PM PST by linn37 (phlebotomist on duty,its just a little pinch)
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To: MovementConservative

“Unfortunately I was under the foolish impression that bagging as many hot girls as possible was a sign of manhood”

You mean it isn’t?


168 posted on 11/20/2007 1:00:17 PM PST by MrNeutron1962
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To: Army Air Corps; Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

I didn't.

And neither did I!

169 posted on 11/20/2007 1:01:39 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Long Island Pete
...drugs... OK, and who hasnt?

Add me to that "who hasn't" list. Not "everybody" was doing it just because somebody thought it was cool. That's merely the excuse "everybody" uses when they're trying to rationalize their own weak/bad/sinful behavior.

170 posted on 11/20/2007 1:10:51 PM PST by Gritty (Who is better to run the nanny state than the nanny,... the Democrats? - Wesley Pruden)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah, the old “Clinton Gambit” makes a comeback.

Barack (sounds like the noise you make when you belch), old buddy, we’ve already seen what we get when we elect someone who claims he smoked pot (but didn’t inhale - LMAO!).

I don’t think we want to go down that road again. This isn’t helpful to your campaign!!


171 posted on 11/20/2007 1:19:47 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

Me.

Nor have I tried them as an adult unless prescribed by a doctor.

172 posted on 11/20/2007 1:21:12 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Lexington Green
Who would want to get high with her?

Apparently, Bill did.

I think she's made a career of making him regret it!!

173 posted on 11/20/2007 1:22:38 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

Not me!....wait.... is heroin a drug?

174 posted on 11/20/2007 1:23:03 PM PST by bigjoesaddle ("By Grabthar's hammer......what a savings")
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To: Califelephant
He's a user. So were these guys: "Experimenting" is this guy:
175 posted on 11/20/2007 1:39:10 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: albie

You are a racist.


176 posted on 11/20/2007 2:03:43 PM PST by reflecting
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To: guinnessman

And I’m not upset with that, as I like being in the party of standards.

On the other hand, I would have had no trouble voting for Ryan, and wish he had stuck it out — he didn’t really do anything (his wife said no), and as scandals go it was nothing serious. I wondered if there was something more that never came out that led to him dropping out — or maybe he just decided he couldn’t beat Obama.


177 posted on 11/20/2007 2:08:09 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

I haven't.

178 posted on 11/20/2007 2:10:46 PM PST by weaponeer
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To: Holicheese
Let me tell you something about coke, noone has only done it once.

Wrong. I did it ONLY once. At first I thought I was having a good time, but before I knew it, I realized the people I was with weren't the people I thought I knew. I've never had an inclination to try it again, and I never will.

I've smoked pot, and I have to admit it was pretty harmless as far as my life was concerned, but I know there are some people who can't handle any drugs of any sort.

179 posted on 11/20/2007 4:14:55 PM PST by highimpact (Abortion - [n]: human sacrifice at the altar of convenience.)
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To: tcrlaf

salient point....


180 posted on 11/20/2007 4:43:37 PM PST by Sub-Driver (Proud member of the Republican wing of the Republican Party)
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