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Obama: I Tried Drugs As a Teen
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Posted on 11/20/2007 10:44:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama: I Tried Drugs As a Teen

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.

Obama stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central High School and answered students' questions about the war in Iraq and his education plan. But when an adult asked about his time as a student, Obama spoke bluntly.

"I will confess to you, I was kind of a goof-off in high school. My Mom reminds me of that," said Obama, an Illinois Democrat who grew up in Hawaii

"You know, I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs," he said. "There was a whole stretch of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot. It wasn't until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing, 'Man, I wasted a lot of time.'"

Obama has written about his drug use in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father."

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.

Drugs, Obama wrote, were a way he "could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cocaine; obama; potheads
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To: Long Island Pete

REALLY!

I recall in my senior year of HS, sitting in class with a friend and discussing who in the class we KNEW for a fact had smoked weed. It became easier to name who we suspected had NOT.
Out of a classroom of 30 students, only 3 were identified as possibly having never smoked weed and only because we didn’t know for sure from personal observation.


101 posted on 11/20/2007 11:08:31 AM PST by a real Sheila (stop hillary NOW!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Doesn’t matter, Hillary has the nomination locked-boxed up.


102 posted on 11/20/2007 11:08:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Miss Didi

I was wondering the same thing.

....still heartbroken about the formula change in Preparation H.


103 posted on 11/20/2007 11:09:08 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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To: Aquinasfan
and overcame the obstacles laid out before him by The Man.

Is he trying to say that he Super Fly?
104 posted on 11/20/2007 11:09:35 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: trublu
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359_pf.html

In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he says.

A "little blow" sounds a little more than a little.

105 posted on 11/20/2007 11:10:27 AM PST by McGruff (A "Big Time" Fred Thompson supporter!)
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To: Sub-Driver
"There was a whole stretch of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot."

Some things never change.

106 posted on 11/20/2007 11:10:29 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
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To: CharlesWayneCT

while that is TRULY admirable, I’m afraid you don’t have many members in that little club.


107 posted on 11/20/2007 11:10:32 AM PST by a real Sheila (stop hillary NOW!)
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To: Slapshot68

No matter, he’s already admitted he did coke. Now I wonder why the left won’t jump on that red meat but they’ll still whip out the “Chimpy McCokespoon” card even now?


108 posted on 11/20/2007 11:10:53 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: LexHoskin
Sorry his drug use is not the scandal. He admitted to using drugs in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance", written 11 years ago, not long after he graduated from law school and well before he contemplated life on the national stage.

Just send me a check for that "lot of money" you bet!

109 posted on 11/20/2007 11:11:31 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Sub-Driver
But, but, I thought the Novakian 'leak' was about sex? Is this a pre-emptive release? What does Hillary have on Obama?
110 posted on 11/20/2007 11:11:37 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: rhombus
I was thrown by the “would be black man” phrase. I wasn’t sure what one had to do with the other.

Did he succeed in his attempt to become a black man? I'm on the edge of my seat.

111 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:13 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Miss Didi

That’s a big Jeep.


112 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:17 AM PST by mhx
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t know if this applies to Obama or not, but my husband grew up in the islands and drugs, especially marijuana, were a big part of life there for teenagers. Although his dad was with an airline there, my husband spent his time with the locals. Based on his experiences and stories, I would think that kids in the islands (Hawaii, Guam in particular) who do NOT try marijuana, are in the minority.


113 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:36 AM PST by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: DemEater

I’ll take that bet. Know why? Obama has already admitted to this in his book

‘THE AUDACITY OF WEED’?


114 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:38 AM PST by flat
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

You do now, baby doll!

And I am d&*n proud of it!

:-)


115 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:41 AM PST by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s not that he tried drugs that bothers me most. It’s that he’s a howling lefty moonbat that convinces me he isn’t fit to be president.


116 posted on 11/20/2007 11:12:46 AM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: Sub-Driver
told high school students

Is anyone outraged that Obama waited to tell kids about this?

Maybe they can book Bill Clinton to come over any make his sex "is is" confession.

Maybe all the candidates should stop at the local school and confess their sins.

117 posted on 11/20/2007 11:13:32 AM PST by donna (Obama is a Moslem.)
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To: rhombus
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man...”

Is a "would-be" black man a "potential" black man? Is he saying that black men end up on drugs? What the heck is he trying to say???
118 posted on 11/20/2007 11:14:37 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
Him laying there in his bed in high school all f-ed up, is not experimenting,...its using.

Ha! Good point. He was lying on the vinyl couch in the basement, the one with the mildew smell, smokin' a doobie and listening to some Floyd. Why doesn't he just admit it?

119 posted on 11/20/2007 11:15:47 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Gee, I wonder if all the "Bush is a coke addict" moonbats will start ripping into B. Hussein Obama for his drug use.

Right? They don't dare.
120 posted on 11/20/2007 11:15:56 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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