Posted on 04/03/2008 2:22:30 PM PDT by george76
Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol.
This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents...
Frankly, he reeked of cigarettes.
Obama ran off before I could ask him if he'd just snuck a smoke, so I called his campaign.
They denied it. He'd quit months before, in February, they insisted.
They reported back that he had told them he hadn't had a cigarette since he quit.
Except….last night on MSNBC's Hardball, Obama admitted that his attempt to wean himself from the vile tobacco weed had not been entirely successful.
It's not a big deal in the scheme of things -- the war on Iraq, a major economic crisis -- indeed, it's miniscule. Hardly worth mentioning.
Except that I don't like feeling that I wasn't being dealt with honestly.
And as much as citizens who are suspect of the media might scoff at such a notion, many of us consider ourselves to be your representatives to help make sure our leaders are telling us the truth, and leading the country down a path we're confident is the right one.
(Corny, I know.)
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Come on, Jake. You're either very ignorant or not being honest yourself in making this statement. No one in the right mind would believe that Obama is being honest about anything.
So?
What’s he smokin’?
it might be the one truely independent,American thing that he practices...
now, if he secretly drank beer from a can and watched Nascar, he'd be a shoe-in.
Since liberals seem to now regard cigarette smokers as among the world’s worst monsters, it’ll be interesting to watch the cognitive dissonance on this particular front.
so why didn’t you write this article last August ?
Stress and pressure are getting to him.
He hasn’t quit, he can’t quit, and he won’t.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if it is more then tobacco he he is smoking.
Yeah,so? Laura Bush still smokes!
It’s currently the worst evil in the world.
If elected he’ll have to smoke in the Rose Garden.
And you know this because? I have heard nothing about Laura smoking. Quite frankly I could care less who smokes, I smoke, it’s legal. What I don’t like is people who lie.
I also read somewhere that Laura Bush does smoke.
It seems to me if Laura smoked we’d hear about it every single day.
Every Republican ad should include a photo of Obama smoking.
It’s difficult to quit, I’m getting ready to try again. Not voting Obama, though.
I don’t think she smokes in public....in other words...you never see a picture of her smoking, because the only place she smokes is where there are NO cameras.....
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