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Obama: When Reagan Was Governor of California, the Smog Was So Bad It Was Like Beijing Now
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 18, 2016 | 1:35 PM EST | (CNSNews.com Staff)

Posted on 01/18/2016 7:25:12 PM PST by Olog-hai

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last week, President Barack Obama told the audience that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California the smog sometimes got so bad that "people just wouldn't go outside."

"And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die," said Obama.

"I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college--I started college in Los Angeles--when I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest," said the president. "And it was just me sucking in soot and smog." ...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: beijing; governormoonbeam; jerrybrown; obama; obamaliar; obamalies; obamamuslim; reagan; smog
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To: HollyB
"And it was just me sucking in soot and smog."

soot and smog were two guys in his choom gang.
21 posted on 01/18/2016 7:37:27 PM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: Olog-hai

How many years has he been smoking cigarettes now?


22 posted on 01/18/2016 7:37:40 PM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: butlerweave

the fairy boy has had far too many drugs. I actually think he believes the crap he spouts now.


23 posted on 01/18/2016 7:38:15 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: butlerweave; Jack Straw from Wichita

Yeah. It was bad and is a lot better now.

And government did not have to take over whole economies or industries to do it.


24 posted on 01/18/2016 7:38:34 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Yes, I remember.

But not nearly as bad Peking is today.


25 posted on 01/18/2016 7:38:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

I remember reading a writer from the early Spanish colonial period who described the persistent haze in the air around Los Angeles.


26 posted on 01/18/2016 7:38:51 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Olog-hai

What 0bama sucked in was cigarettes, dope smoke, and d!cks...


27 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:00 PM PST by W. (Dammit, I made a great tagline and forgot to write it down!)
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To: super7man

It wasn’t as bad as China, they at times have smog like thick fog, sometimes even purple smog. China is worse than Pittsburgh at the peak of the steel mills.


28 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:11 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: BenLurkin

Yes. One of the lies or exaggerations.

Definitely not as bad as Peking or other cities today.


29 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:58 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

“There’s a fog upon L.Ayayayay
And my friends have lost their wayayay.......”

George Harrison - Blue Jay Way


30 posted on 01/18/2016 7:41:37 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Olog-hai

0bama is a liar, the worst of the smog in SoCA was in the fifties. By the time Governor Reagan took office it wasn’t like bambam portrays it to be.


31 posted on 01/18/2016 7:42:54 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: super7man

Well could it be because LA is in a VALLEY!!?!??! Hello.


32 posted on 01/18/2016 7:43:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Obama was a chain smoker back then. Maybe his inability to run had something to do with that. Or maybe he was just too stoned to run anywhere but the Pizza store.


33 posted on 01/18/2016 7:43:23 PM PST by P-Marlowe (GO TRUMP GO........ AWAY)
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To: Olog-hai

Dont bother trying to give Commie Obama facts, he, like other Commies refuse to listen to the TRUTH, they are blinded by their Fascist agenda


34 posted on 01/18/2016 7:43:31 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Olog-hai

Which college did he attend in 1979?


35 posted on 01/18/2016 7:43:34 PM PST by funfan
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To: HandyDandy

They’ll be over soon they say-ay-ay-ay....


36 posted on 01/18/2016 7:44:00 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Olog-hai
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953):

...The weather was hot and sticky and the acid sting of the smog had crept as far west as Beverly Hills. From the top of Mulholland Drive you could see it leveled out all over the city like a ground mist. When you were in it you could taste it and smell it and it made your eyes smart. Everybody was griping about it. In Pasadena, where the stuffy millionaires holed up after Beverly Hills was spoiled for them by the movie crowd, the city fathers screamed with rage. Everything was the fault of the smog. If the canary wouldn't sing, if the milkman was late, if the Pekinese had fleas, if an old coot in a starched collar had a heart attack on the way to church, that was the smog. Where I lived it was usually clear in the early morning and nearly always at night. Once in a while a whole day would be clear, nobody quite knew why.

37 posted on 01/18/2016 7:46:06 PM PST by TChad
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To: Olog-hai
Illegals, and Muslims hit hardest!
38 posted on 01/18/2016 7:47:59 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: HandyDandy

1967


39 posted on 01/18/2016 7:48:01 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: super7man

I started working in Anaheim in 1962, did not see the Fulerton hills for the first 6 months.


40 posted on 01/18/2016 7:48:31 PM PST by ully2
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