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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: Vision

“Obama has already admitted this. The Novak piece is different.”

The cocaine part? I did not hear that before.


81 posted on 11/20/2007 11:02:23 AM PST by trublu
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To: Lexington Green
Who would want to get high with her?

Woah, talk about a bad trip man! Maybe that's why Bill "tried it but didn't like it". Betcha he's still having bad trips whenever she's around. :)

82 posted on 11/20/2007 11:02:30 AM PST by McGruff (A "Big Time" Fred Thompson supporter!)
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To: Sub-Driver
If this was Shillary's so-called dirt on him, BFD. More and more it will be harder to find someone (even a Republican/Conservative) who hasn't tried them at some point in their lives.

The question(s) will be: how long ago; are you still using; what is your advice to kids today?

83 posted on 11/20/2007 11:02:57 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I also have never taken any illegal, non-prescribed drug, never. I have drank a few beers but never cultivated the taste and haven’t had one of those in 12 years. hard alcohol is a losing situation.


84 posted on 11/20/2007 11:03:05 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: LexHoskin

If Hillary is going after Obama on cocaine, that is a hugely risky strategy. The Clintons allowed brother Roger to snort cocaine in the White House. And I know a couple of Bill’s suppliers from back in the 70s.


85 posted on 11/20/2007 11:03:20 AM PST by HAL9000 (Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)
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To: Long Island Pete

Obama: I Tried Drugs As a Teen

OK, and who hasnt?

mitt romney and duncan hunter....

thats who


86 posted on 11/20/2007 11:03:49 AM PST by flat
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To: Long Island Pete

I’ll take your word on that. I have always been a control freak when it comes to my senses and memory.

I imbibe alcohol from time to time (I like a good beer with a thick steak), but always well within the bounds of moderation.

I never had a desire to be stoned beacuse I saw how people behaved when they were drunk or high.

I am not judging you, FRiend. I am just stating that I never used “recreational pharmaceuticals” and have never had a desire to do so.


87 posted on 11/20/2007 11:03:50 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: LexHoskin; wagglebee
This has been well known for a long time, Hitlery has something else. Obama is just trying to use this to deflect attention.

Or to get attention. Remember we are "Oprah Nation" where a quick visit to her couch to repent and shed a few tears will make him even more endearing...no matter what scandal Mrs. Clinton has up her sleeve.
88 posted on 11/20/2007 11:03:57 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: trublu

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1762062/posts


89 posted on 11/20/2007 11:04:06 AM PST by Vision (" 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord Almighty." Zechariah 4:6)
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To: trublu

What if he was “selling” drugs? Now that would be the same story...with a differnt twist.


90 posted on 11/20/2007 11:04:13 AM PST by LexHoskin
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, that should increase his chances of winning the Democrat nomination.


91 posted on 11/20/2007 11:05:00 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: Army Air Corps

me neither


92 posted on 11/20/2007 11:05:38 AM PST by flat
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To: Sub-Driver
Someone should ask Hillary if she has ever done drugs.

But we already know the "lie."

93 posted on 11/20/2007 11:05:41 AM PST by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Army Air Corps

I find this interesting. What year did you graduate High School?


94 posted on 11/20/2007 11:06:41 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Sub-Driver
I can count on one hand the number of people who "tried" drugs - with the implication that it was an experiment and never repeated.

Is "I tried drugs" supposed to imply that you didn't continue using? I guess so.

It's better than, "I tried drugs once, then waited until the next weekend to try them again. I liked it so much that I started trying them every weekend, then I tried them every day for several years (I was later told). I stopped trying drugs when I was arrested - but I only quit trying drugs for a little while. After that, I tried them again for several years - morning, noon and night - until I ran for office. During that time I tried being more careful. Now I don't admit to trying drugs anymore."

95 posted on 11/20/2007 11:06:47 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: guinnessman

If by “accused of asking his wife for sex” you mean taking her to sex clubs and demanding that she perform sex acts on him in front of others then yeah, sure.


96 posted on 11/20/2007 11:07:37 AM PST by ricardobaltazar
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To: Califelephant
Is it just me, or is the term “junkie” most commonly associated with people who shoot heroin?

As far as I know. I suppose he's trying to imply that he grew up on the mean streets of... wherever, and overcame the obstacles laid out before him by The Man.

97 posted on 11/20/2007 11:07:54 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: xtinct
Was this the scandalous info that Hillary was not going to reveal?

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No. I'm guessing that whatever she's keeping on reserve is much worse.

98 posted on 11/20/2007 11:08:03 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Long Island Pete

1993.


99 posted on 11/20/2007 11:08:05 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama was an active drug user for at leat five years.

As part of Obama's first run for office, he releases his memoir/fable, "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," in which he acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he wrote.

The Obama File

Why would he mention heroin? -- Just asking!
100 posted on 11/20/2007 11:08:24 AM PST by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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