Posted on 05/25/2012 10:11:21 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’ Email 0 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print
Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Zeus wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.
Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.
Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.
“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”
The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”.
“TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Here’s how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.”
As one of Obama’s old high school buddies tells Maraniss: “Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.”
Another Obama innovation: “Roof Hits.”
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ABC? Really?? I didn’t know government checks could bounce.
They meant pole smoking?
This is nothing compared to Romney teasing some kid in his high school days. When he was in high school there were no “gay” kids, just panseys. And in those times no one ever thought of what kinds of sex panseys preferred.
racist much?
it's just how this guy thinks
Who is Dr. Zeus? Did they mean “Seuss”?
I would smoke it in the dark,
I would love to smoke with Karl Marx...
I would smoke it in the hall,
I would smoke it with my pal Saul...
That was the dude in Planet of the Apes, wasn't it?
This country would be better off if 0bama would spend his days smoking pot instead of transforming America. Cheech and Chong would be better leaders than 0bama and Biden.
I don’t know about way back when, but I tell you what - Barry’s actions suggests the guy STILL smoking it today.
Is it my imagination or is the MSM starting to turn on Obama?
He was drag racing in a VW bus? The guy is dumber than donuts.
I never heard one word about this during the 08 election, what a surprise.
I remember he did a TV interview early on in 2009 and he was laughing about GM and the interviewer asked him if he was “punch drunk” and I was thinking he seemed stoned. I am sure he still smokes pot along with the rest of his admin.
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Telling that he would “Intercept” or “Bogart” the joint out of turn.
Always the Narcissist.
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