"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.'"
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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I’m going to guess that this is about “coke”. If this was just a marijuana story...no bid deal. But if you get into snorting coke, then we’re talking harder drugs...and more of a scandal. This has got to be a preemptive strike.
There goes the supreme court appointment.
This is an odd statement since his mother has been dead for 12 years.
LOL. I live it when they say “I experimented” with drugs as if they were working on a theorum in the laboratory.
This has been well known for a long time, Hitlery has something else. Obama is just trying to use this to deflect attention.
I have to say I am quite impressed. But I tell you what, mushrooms were pretty fun.
Absolutely wrong thing to say to teenagers. To the adult mind it would come out as “don’t repeat my mistake.” To the teenager, it means “blah, blah, I did so you can too.” Seriously.
Was this the scandalous info that Hillary was not going to reveal?
Shot of the out-of-control Clinton daughter in London while she attended Oxford
LOL
She would be a real head downer.
I did not
At least he admits it. Glad he has turned things around.
“would be black man”? What does that mean?
Yep, Obama speaking before a high school and saying this was no accident.
You don’t run a campaign that way. But I don’t think this is the issue coming after a President’s brother called him a coke vacuum machine.
What Obama is doing is saying to the Hillary camp. I will humanize myself so when you try to tear me down, I will in fact generate sympathy. Then the Beast will be the one burned.
Even if she is a hot blonde.
Me. ... I also didn’t have sex before marriage
The two are often related.
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man,”
Yeah, sure, looser.
Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Soule, William Washington, J.C. Watts, etc don’t fit into your pattern.
What a looser this guy is. The only Democrat candidate with credable crentials is Richardson and he is wrong on all the major issues.
The WORST Republican would-be candidate is far better than the BEST candidate the Dems can put up.
“I’m going to guess that this is about “coke”. If this was just a marijuana story...no bid deal. But if you get into snorting coke, then we’re talking harder drugs...and more of a scandal. This has got to be a preemptive strike.”
This is probabbly what Novak was talking about. Now Hillary can’t bring out this dirt.
They didn’t make him interesting either.
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