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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: Holicheese
The big question, what did John Edwards smoke when he was in college?

I think he snorted Aqua Net.
141 posted on 11/20/2007 11:41:09 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama had no respect for the laws of the country growing up, and he most likely does not respect them now. A self-confessed goof-off and drug user. Is that the best candidate that the Democrats can field? What does that say for anyone that would vote for him? This country is so FUBAR.


142 posted on 11/20/2007 11:41:52 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: trublu
LOL. I live it when they say “I experimented” with drugs as if they were working on a theorum in the laboratory.

Yeah."Experimented" means "I tried different drugs to see which one I liked better".

143 posted on 11/20/2007 11:41:53 AM PST by quack
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To: Sub-Driver

Big deal.


144 posted on 11/20/2007 11:42:22 AM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

well maybe there are some potheads out there who remember him selling it to them.


145 posted on 11/20/2007 11:44:56 AM PST by pennboricua
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To: Sub-Driver

Just reminding everybody after a year of campaigning how mainstream he is, just like Bill Clinton only more honest. We need reminding because the campaign has gone on so long everybody has forgotten both the cocaine and the madrassah.


146 posted on 11/20/2007 11:46:56 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: Sub-Driver
for Barack Hussein Obama-yo-mama
with appologies to Clapton and JJ Cale

If you wanna hang out youve got to take her out; Hussein.
If you wanna get down, down on the ground; Hussein.
She dont lie, she dont lie, she dont lie; Hussein.

If you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues; Hussein.
When your day is done and you wanna run; Hussein.
She dont lie, she dont lie, she dont lie; Hussein.

If your thing is gone and you wanna ride on; Hussein.
Dont forget this fact, you cant get it back; Hussein.
She dont lie, she dont lie, she dont lie; Hussein.

She dont lie, she dont lie, she dont lie; Hussein.

147 posted on 11/20/2007 11:47:37 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: guinnessman

He didn’t HAVE to resign in disgrace. But we republicans are more concerened about propriety and the law than democrats are, so by nature our candidates have a higher standard to meet.

We also expect our candidates to be sensible and conservative, something democrats don’t.


148 posted on 11/20/2007 11:47:45 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: 1rudeboy

Maybe he thinks this is the information that Hillary has on him?


149 posted on 11/20/2007 11:49:32 AM PST by mware
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To: Army Air Corps

I am sure John spent many a wee hour of the morning in the shower with his roommate Chuck!


150 posted on 11/20/2007 11:50:55 AM PST by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: Miss Didi
Is a "would-be" black man a "potential" black man?

Maybe he means that he 'would-be' a black man but his mother is white.

151 posted on 11/20/2007 11:51:15 AM PST by Rita Hayworth (Vote for a guy who had 399 House Bank overdrafts totaling $129,000? Yeah right!!)
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To: All

The brain is still undergoing big changes when you are in high school, doing drugs at that age is far more destructive (Libertarians) then to a grown adult.

How’s Obama’s brain doing?


152 posted on 11/20/2007 11:51:43 AM PST by Hunterite
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To: Sub-Driver

Thier are only about ELEVEN MILLION google hits decrying Bush’s alleged drug use as a disqualification for President, yet the left is UTTERLY SILENT about Obama...


153 posted on 11/20/2007 11:58:35 AM PST by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: Long Island Pete
OK, and who hasnt?

Me.

154 posted on 11/20/2007 12:06:00 PM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: Hunterite

He thinks he can be President.

To answer your question: not so well.


155 posted on 11/20/2007 12:06:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: Red_Devil 232

We’ll see.

However, I will write out a check that says “lot of money” and have it all ready for you. :)


156 posted on 11/20/2007 12:07:23 PM PST by LexHoskin
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To: CharlesWayneCT

That’s true.

That’s why Republicans are open to charges of hypocrisy and Democrats aren’t.

Democrats have no standards, so they can’t be accused of failing to live up to them.


157 posted on 11/20/2007 12:16:22 PM PST by guinnessman
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To: trublu

Maybe the story is about cocaine use well after high school, or something like that he actually sold or shared the drug to and with others while in high school or even after.

Hard to imagine that a high school cocaine user would just go cold turkey upon graduation. He kept smoking cigarettes, and probably has used coffee his entire life, so he likes stimulants. If someone gets to ask him a question at a town hall or press conference see if he ever sold or widely shared his coke “stash”, especially with other youngsters.


158 posted on 11/20/2007 12:16:55 PM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: LexHoskin

My wife is going shopping Friday morning ... could you Fed-X it? :)


159 posted on 11/20/2007 12:22:41 PM 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: Miss Didi
Man, I wasted a lot of time.'"

He probably meant, Man I was wasted a lot of the time.
160 posted on 11/20/2007 12:29:54 PM PST by Master of Orion
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