Posted on 06/10/2008 12:31:42 PM PDT by pissant
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama told reporters in St. Louis today that he has fallen off the wagon and smoked cigarettes in the last few months.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has been open about his smoking past: Once a heavy smoker, he publicly gave up the habit, per his wife’s request, to run for president.
Since quitting, Obama has indicated in the past that he has “fallen off the wagon” but before today was not specific about how recent his smoking was.
“Months,” Obama said of the last time he has smoked.
Obama regularly chews Nicorette while not at campaign events, and the recent release of a doctor's note from his primary care physician indicated that it has brought him a level of success.
“His own history included intermittent cigarette smoking,” David L. Scheiner, M.D. wrote in a letter released to reporters. “He has quit this practice on several occasions and is currently using Nicorette gum with success.”
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EVILDOER!
“This not the Marlboro Man that I know.” — Hussein Obama
This isn’t going to sit well with the liberal anti-smoking nazi block of the democratic party, that’s for sure.
He’s still a loser.
The guy can’t even quit smoking cigarettes but we’re supposed to believe he’d have the iron willpower to confront our enemies over a conference table. Puhleeeze.
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...smoked cigarettes in the last few months.
= someone is lying
we need a 2nd hand-windfall-profit tobacco tax.
Quits a nutbag church
Quits smooking
Could it have anything to do with politics?
Could he be faking us?
Naaaahhhhh!
You haven’t learned by now that leftist elites are not held accountable to the same rules as they would apply to everyone else?
This doesn’t matter to me - I still don’t like the guy.
No new cigarette taxes!!!!
Not the “I didn’t inhale” again..
Well, his smoking was about the only thing I ever heard about him that I liked.
This is all they’ll throw at this guy? I could write a 500 page thesis!
That’s it. Now I can’t vote for him!
Who would vote for a Presidential candidate who’s obviously got one leg in the grave?
No, he inhaled. He apparently just likes it only now and then.
I sense a photoshop cig pic coming on this thread soon.
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