Posted on 05/25/2012 9:37:16 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out of turn.
Best-selling author David Maraniss' "Barack Obama: The Story" describes the future president's teenage antics, notably his copious marijuana smoking, details of which were published early Friday by Buzzfeed. While the book won't be released until June 19, vast sections of it were already available Friday on Google Books.
Starting on page 293, the reader begins to get the dope on high school-age Obama's group of basketball- and fun-loving buds, who dubbed themselves the "Choom Gang," from a verb meaning "to smoke marijuana."
"As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called 'TA,' short for 'total absorption.' To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled," writes Maraniss, author of a biography of the 42 nd president.
"When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang from marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "'Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated,' explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo."
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Once a dope, always a dope. At least for Zero.
Well, smoking copius amounts of pot do lead to laziness and mental deterioration.
Deterioration: a gradual decline, as in quality, serviceability, or vigor.
I think that fits the President well.
My bet is Sebilious is going to come out and say that smoking pot makes you brilliant and she will cite famous potheads who managed to write a play or two as examples.
the donald says obama born in kenya..
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/25/trump_insists_again_obama_wasnt_born_in_the_us.html
How did he pay for it? Or, later, for his apartment in NYC? Or his lengthy college years vacation to Pakistan?
Zero bogarted too many joints.
Is this supposed to generate fans for the Obummer, or turn them toward Romney, the clean liver. I know where my vote is going.
At first, I laughed and thought your comment was very funny. However, after thinking about it a bit more, I've come to realize that your comment could (sadly) be true.
The liar IN chef is picking apart our country, one day at a time.
Sounds like Barry had quite the privilaged life from the start.....Not an expert but the types of marijuana mentioned in the article are usually expensive as well as drinking imported beers. Far from the false idea of O growing up poor drinking 40’s on a stoop somewhere......
He’s been a self-centered pompous ass his entire life!!
Interesting. Here we have intimate details of B. Hussein’s dope smoking buddies.
Yet we know nothing from the thousands of people he supposedly went to college with.
Oliver Knox probably just ruined his career with the MSM. We should expect to see him join Fox at some point I guess, after the IRS will finishes its forensic auditing of course.
Oliver Knox probably just ruined his career with the MSM. We should expect to see him join Fox at some point I guess, after the IRS will finishes its forensic auditing of course.
A punk like Obama must have had a hard time finding friends to get high with him.
"Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling."
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