Posted on 03/01/2010 1:34:39 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Gibbs: Obama has not fully kicked smoking habit By Jordan Fabian - 03/01/10 03:58 PM ET
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday acknowledged that President Barack Obama still "ocassionally falls of the wagon" when it comes to smoking cigarettes.
Gibbs was asked about Obama's smoking at the daily press briefing after the president's medical report released Sunday said that he is using nicotine replacement therapy.
"He is occassionally falls of the wagon when it comes to that," Gibbs said, adding that Obama "continues to chew nicotine gum."
Obama's opponents and some in the press raised his cigarette smoking as an issue on the campaign trail.
They noted that the president's status as a role model and his White House's push for healthy lifesyles warrant inquiries into his smoking habit.
Last June, Obama gave a similar answer to the press that Gibbs gave Monday. The president called himself a "former smoker" who occasionally "slips up" and has a cigarette, but never in front of his family.
Gibbs said that he does not know when Obama smokes because he is not with the president 24 hours a day.
occasionally falls off the wagon.. HA!!!
Drink
A leader in health care, huh?
And Franco’s condition remains unchanged.
"How does the president feel about American taxpayers paying for his healthcare when he knowingly engages in unhealthy behavior?"
Wonder what brand he smokes.
I used to smoke Camels.
But then I quit by reading Allen Carr’s book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, and I recommend any freepers wanting to quit do the same.
But don’t tell Obama!
Let’s take up a collection and send a few thousand CARTONS to the White House. Might save us the bother and cost of the coming impeachment.
Sounds like Gibbs thinks a woman could be just a little bit pregnant. Obama is addicted.
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I abhor 0, but I will say, this is the only area in which I have sympathy with the man.
If I were he I would tell whomever asked that’s it’s none of their g*****n business if I smoke. In fact I would have pulled out a cigarette and lit up during the infamous sunday interview in which he was asked.
Of course he’s caught up in the PC world of his own making so he’s to some degree responsible for all of this PC garbage about smoking.
BUT they keep raising taxes on cigarettes for the common people, don’t they?????? If it’s such a bad thing, WHY is the bambi in charge still doing it?????
It doesn't matter to him - he has a Cadillac policy we provide for him.
I think its interesting that the doctor told barry that he needed to moderate his alcohol use. Doesn’t that mean barry is over drinking?
Joe,
You nailed it.
BA
Rather have a Churchill smoking cigars 24-a day and being a leader than Zero feeling guilty about smoking a cig now and then but running this country into the ground.
Several times a day in fact...
I quit smoking cold turkey. If I can do it, he can do it.
I didn’t even have 100 million+ watching me. And...Why is Michelle giving us diet advice when she claims her children are heavy and her husband has high cholesteral?
Some doctors think 2 glasses of wine a day ("that's nearly 15 drinks a week!!!") is too much. Maybe he got one of those for his physical.
The question is.......
Who buys them for him? I’m sure he doesn’t sneak out to the local 7 11.........
So someone on the government payroll is doing this?
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