Posted on 08/07/2012 1:56:34 PM PDT by tobyhill
Nearly three decades ago, Barack Obama stood out on the small campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles for his eloquence, intellect and activism against apartheid in South Africa. But Mr. Obama, then known as Barry, also joined in the party scene.
Years later in his 1995 memoir, he mentioned smoking reefer in the dorm room of some brother and talked about getting high. Before Occidental, he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student in Hawaii, according to the book. He made some bad decisions as a teenager involving drugs and drinking, Senator Obama, now a presidential candidate, told high school students in New Hampshire last November.
Mr. Obamas admissions are rare for a politician (his book, Dreams From My Father, was written before he ran for office.) They briefly became a campaign issue in December when an adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obamas chief Democratic rival, suggested that his history with drugs would make him vulnerable to Republican attacks if he became his partys nominee.
Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has never quantified his illicit drug use or provided many details. He wrote about his two years at Occidental, a predominantly white liberal arts college, as a gradual but profound awakening from a slumber of indifference that gave rise to his activism there and his fears that drugs could lead him to addiction or apathy, as they had for many other black men.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So being loaded during high school still gets him into Occidental?
Like how?
I smell a rat....
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If only America knew...
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Interesting. The WSJ piece says “Others speculate about ties to the Black Students Organization, though students active then don’t seem to remember him.”
Contrast this to the NYT: “Mr. Obama was involved in the Black Students Association and in the divestment campaign to pressure the college to pull its money out of companies doing business in South Africa. To make a point, students camped out in makeshift shantytowns on campus.
In his book, Mr. Obama said that his role in the divestment push started as kind of a lark, part of the radical pose my friends and I sought to maintain. But then he became more engaged, contacting members of the African National Congress to have them speak at the college and writing letters to the faculty.
He was one of a few students who spoke at a campus divestment rally.”
How could student leaders of BSA not remember one of the few students to speak at the divestment rally? One of these accounts appears to be in error.
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