Posted on 06/09/2015 3:07:55 PM PDT by markomalley
C’mon. He’s in Europe, he was talking to an Italian, and his ’08 image abroad as a global savior has been blown to hell by six years of foreign-policy drift. The guy had to do something to restore a little cool.
Yesterday he had a beer at 11 a.m. By the end of the year, he’ll be puttering around the White House unshaven in pajamas at three in the afternoon, muttering about “red lines” between swigs from a bottle of Jack.
Remind me again why he needs to pretend that he quit smoking. I know Michelle doesn’t like it, but she’ll learn to cope with her husband sneaking a puff now and then to take the edge off of having the most stressful job in the world. Is it more of an image thing for him? President Spock, the picture of self-composure, isn’t supposed to have minor personal vices like normal humans. The Syria red line is one thing, the Marlboro red line is quite another. Or maybe this is more of an ideological matter where he feels he can’t indulge in a deeply unhealthy habit while Democrats drone on about obesity and Big Gulps and nutritious school lunches. He’s the de facto Pope of public health and here he is being caught with the equivalent of a pentagram. How can we expect our children to choke down their bowls of wheat germ and broccoli at noon in the cafeteria if the president’s chain-smoking his way through the national security briefing?
First this, then Robert Gibbs signs on as global spokesman for McDonald’s. At the rate we’re going in the famously health-conscious Obama White House, Michelle’s going to end up as president of Coca-Cola. Exit quotation from Cuffy Meigs:
It would be a real shame (and a waste of great talent and intellect) if he were to get ill from smoking.
Colorado/Washington States special blend?
Why does anyone care if he smokes?
One thing for sure...he’s not the Marlboro Man.
The only thing I ever liked about him is the fact that he smokes.
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And because he and his busybody wife never stop telling everyone how to live a healthy lifestyle.
He and his wife aren’t like us. They’re royalty.
Who is the guy standing in the desk drawer?
Well, actually - it was a non-alcoholic beer, because he had to pray to Mecca after the beer, and he didn't want to come off like the lying hypocritical piece of canine feces that he is...
LOL!
"Jester In A Drawer"? They're all the rage on the East Coast, now.
Maybe he puts a chunk of hashish in the end of the cigarette like the younger dynachrome used to do.
he lacks the intestinal and moral fortitude to quit - just sayin
Semi-retried? More like fully detached from the reality of the real world!
As one who was born in the first half of the 20th century, it seems somehow right that the President of the United States smokes. It is weird, especially since I do not smoke myself, but there it is.
Just romancing...
“Why does anyone care if he smokes?”
I don’t care if he does or not (apparently, he doesn’t feel the same way about us) but I do applaud him for keeping it quiet because it really would be a bad influence.
Oh, that made me rotfl!!!!!
But then I looked closely at the picture—it looks like something by MC Escher. Is the man in the drawer inside or outside?
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