Posted on 09/08/2018 4:23:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former President Obama shared a story in California on Saturday about a time he was kicked out of Disneyland while in college.
Obama told a crowd in Anaheim while campaigning for local Democratic candidates about a time when he and several friends — who were in California for a Kool & The Gang concert — were booted out of the theme park after they were caught smoking on a ride.
"So we came down, me and a bunch of friends. After the concert, because we were teenagers you could still sort of hang out in the park, and we got in the gondolas," Obama told the crowd.
"And I'm ashamed to say this, so close your ears, young people. A few of us were... smoking," Obama said, while miming the act. After the crowd began cheering, he clarified: "No, no, these were cigarettes, people."
"They escorted us out of Disneyland," Obama continued. "I was booted from the Magic Kingdom."
Disney CEO Bob Iger responded to Obama in a tweet, joking that the former president was welcome back at the park anytime, provided he didn't light up a cigarette, which park rules state are only allowed in designated areas.
"@BarackObama just opened his speech in Anaheim with a story from his college years about getting kicked out of Disneyland for smoking cigarettes on a ride," Iger wrote. "He can always come back, as long as he doesn't smoke!"
Obama appeared Saturday alongside seven Democratic congressional candidates, attempting to rally voters ahead of the November elections.
Democrats need to net at least 23 seats to take back control of the House, while Republicans are defending a 51-49 seat majority in the Senate.
Obama, who delivered a speech Friday in Illinois condemning President Trump, took several veiled shots at the president on Saturday.
"If we don’t step up, things can get worse," he told the crowd in California.
Choom Gang
Stupid story.
WTH is the point?
Other than he is a loser...
And now it’s on to tales about Bolivian Marching Powder,the possession of which is a Federal felony.
What was oblammy doing, protesting because Disney didn’t offer “BATHHOUSELAND”?
So he was an obnoxious know-it-all teenager who acted up at a kid oriented / family oriented business.
Somehow I’m not surprised.
I just love it when he lectures me on life’s lessons. He is an expert on everything.
Yo Odungo,tell them about the time
you met an Imam you knew in two different bath houses in Chicago...
It's a clever way of encouraging his followers to go ahead and break laws if you don't like them or they cramp your style. Antifa? BLM? ....
Once he was escorted off the property it instantly once again became the happiest place on earth.
O just wanted to be cool, and worshipped. Never really cared about being a real president.
Little sissy pri#k
Not a bad gig: Having enough money (as a teenager, not attending classes anywhere else ?) to go to California, smoke pot (yeah, right, sure, what ever - it was tobacco) and go to Disneyland.
Oh wait! Obola said he was campaigning for congressional races! ... So who did pay for him to work in CA for several weeks?
Pirates of the Caribbean is so much more fun after a couple of joints.....
Kool & the Gang don’t seem Uhbama’s type. I’m shocked.
He stopped short but the point was ‘America is racist. I am a victim. You all are victims - or should sympathize with victims. Vote against racism in November.’
Nope. Obola was campaigning NOW for CA congressional races, not back when he was smoking pot at Disneyland and going to concerts.
This story smacks of some of the whoppers Bill told.
They caught him and his buddies and frog-marched them right out of the park as soon as the ride stopped? Right.
He got caught smoking pole and got thrown out.
Strange I thought that obama was supposed to be a poor boy.
In california when ? While attending that exclusive Hawaiin Academy (the on ethat all the rich missionary’s children went to 100 years ago) ???
There was a definite reason that obama’s past was locked away from the public’s eyes ...
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