What's the story with that Drudge photo of Obama?

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[dascallie]

Hip, younger Obama smoking a joint...

Good Lord. Great example for the kids---moral erosion right before our eyes...

[Old Sarge]

That’s not just a photo - that’s an icon.

All Hail The One (piss be upon him)...

[AirForceMom]

WTH. Great role model there.

[SkyDancer]

It’s showing that the president is a good old boy ...

[Texas_shutterbug]

It’s amazing how young he looks. I would have guessed fifteen years old - not college age!

[RDTF]

[SolidWood]

[RDTF]

where was this during the election!

[nascarnation]

There's a whole set of them at the Time site.

Stuff you never saw before the election....

However it does appear they found the first person willing to admit they knew Baraq in college.

[Domandred]

Drudge’s response to Time’s Person of the Year.

[dascallie]

Lets be clear.....Larry Sinclair ( love him, or despise him, but he is tenacious in his insistance...and he is putting his life on the line) says Obama was smoking crack cocaine with him as late as 1999.

Let’s not fool ourselves here.

[abb]

One Toke Over the Line

[j-damn]

You call that ‘hip’?

[COBOL2Java]

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States!"

["Hail to the Chief" replaced by "Low Rider" from War]

[MikeWUSAF]

All currently spinning in their graves.

[pillut48]

Oh, c’mon!!! What he did/does in his PRIVATE life has absolutely NO bearing on how well he can be president!! Ethical behavior isn’t a requirement in the Constitution, is it????

/liberal rant off

Thank you again, Bill Clinton, for that lovely legacy you have left our children and grandchildren!!! >:-(

[Cecily]

Now I can't get the "Mambo No. 5" song out of my head. :)

[SFR]

He looks like a pimp from 1974

[Texas_shutterbug]

The photographer says that when she found these (and she didn’t realize she’d taken a whole roll), that she decided not to show them until after the election. (Read that at the Time site.)

[vietvet67]

Definately stoned..

[SevenofNine]

Monk and Bender go to ping 14 you going love the caption

[niteowl77]

Why, if it ain’t President Wise-Ass hisself. “Hemp and Change,” my man...

[dfwgator]

And he’s still a pimp.

[Frantzie]

We can thank the MSM, Soro’s Plan B Juan McCain and the cowards at SCOTUS.

[the long march]

And now I too am doomed. Hadn’t even gone there until you posted. Twin brothers from different mothers obviously

[kenmcg]

Drudge is right on!!! Twenty years ago our now Pres.elect was stoned and slept in the streets and doorways of NYC. That this guy becomes President is either testimony of our dumb electorate or anyone can become President. I happen to blame it on the dumb electorate.

[Notwithstanding]

The photog is quoted as saying she took the photos as an aspiring photog long ago, put them in a pile of old forgotten stuff, realized that she had infact taken photos of B. Hussein long ago but had no idea what they were of and how many there were, and she did not think she would be able to locate them. Once she found them, whe put them in a vault to ensure no one one could see them until after the election.

But why hide them? What about transparency, and all that?

[Pharmboy]

That pic of Him will soon be a Tee shirt hanging next to those of Che...

[pillut48]

HOnestly, I believe that George Soros is the pimp behind USPEBO’s ‘success’!!!

[jersey117]

Drudge rocks!

[ChiMark]

looks like a Kool not a joint. Too thick to be weed.

[Osage Orange]

I don't think that's a joint.........

fwiw-

[dfwgator]

“Obama’s a pimp. But I didn’t know until this day, that it was Soros all along.”

[MadelineZapeezda]

The Times editor guy showed this on Morning Joe this am.

Great....just great

[jmaroneps37]

Great job Matt! This shows real guts.

[COBOL2Java]

Watched the film "Idiocracy" last night. Seems like we're headed that way.

Pic from the movie. This is the Presidential motorcade:

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Headline?

Motion Picture Assn. of America now evaluates any and all smoking in a movie when assigning a rating, what about the White House
Under Eighteen May Be Barred From White House
Does not apply to all families

Washington, D.C. "We don't get barred. Only the little people get barred," said President-elect Barack Helmsley Obama . . . .

(Leona "Queen of Mean" Helmsley: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.") ,

[TV Dinners]

we be.... big pimpin’

[astounded]

I had that album, too.

[Alberta's Child]

One of the few great comforts of the Clinton administration is that it proved how well this country could still function even with a certifiable loony-tune in the White House.

One potential problem, though, is that stories like this will further expose the silly notion that the President of the United States actually has the power to launch a nuclear attack as a complete fraud.

[JenB987]

People will love him even more for that photo. People will say, “Look at him! He’s the personification of ‘cool’...”

[SamAdams76]

Great, now I’m going to have that “Theme to Shaft” song by Isaac Hayes running through my head the rest of the day.

[Muddy168]

Hard to tell, but I never held a cigarette that way. Maybe it was cheap stuff and he had to pack it thicker? Not that I ever indulged, er, um, inhaled, well, um, that is to say...anyway. Yeah, could be a Kool...

[nascarnation]

Why does it show guts?
The picture is part of the Time “Person of the Year” issue.
They’re touting it as part of Baraq’s coolness and relevance.

[IrishPennant]

Must be a mistake - It looks an awfully lot like Tito's college years

[ansel12]

“I don’t think that’s a joint.........”

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It looks exactly like a cigarette to me.

[mnehring]

That’s a joint? where was our side with this during the election? Oh yea, we had McCain taking the ‘high’ road.

[Alberta's Child]

To be fair, I do remember some media figure back in 2000 who recounted a tale from his days at Princeton back in the late 1960s.

Yale's football team beat Princeton in a late-season game at Princeton to clinch the Ivy League championship, and a crowd of Yale fans swarmed onto the field and climbed all over the goalposts to try to tear them down. A bunch of them were arrested, including one who sat perched in the middle of the crossbar until the police got him down.

"When I recently learned that the guy on the crossbar was George W. Bush," he said, "I knew I had to vote for him!"

[VOA]

WTH. Great role model there.

Obama will probably follow the tact of former pro basketball
player (and Obama supporter) Charles Barkley.

And inform the world that since he's a major world figure,
he can't be considered a role model.

[worst-case scenario]

Here’s the link to the Time mag photospread:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068_1865098,00.html

He was 20 at the time the photos were taken and was mugging for the camera as college freshman sometimes do..... was he thinking of running for Pres and therefore needing to be a “good role model” at the time? Who knows.

None of us have any potentially embarrassing photos that were taken in our youth. Just ask Dr Laura. Or videos either... as Pres Bush can confirm.