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Rare Photo of Barack Obama & the ‘Choom Gang’ Unearthed (2012)
blaze ^ | Jun. 18, 2012 9:36pm | Becket Adams

Posted on 09/12/2013 8:46:05 AM PDT by dennisw

During an interview on CSPAN’s Book TV Sunday, “Barack Obama: The Story” author David Maraniss unveiled a photo of a young Barack Obama posing with his infamous pot-smoking “Choom Gang.”

“How much pot-smoking did the president do in Honolulu?” asked host Peter Slen.

“Well, you know, he writes about it in his book,” Marannis responded.

“He doesn’t write in particulars about the ‘Choom Gang.’ Ah, you know, the whole notion of Bill Clinton saying he never inhaled, well Barry said ‘that was the point, wasn’t it?’ when Jay Leno asked him about it. And, you know, some of my book — without going overboard — documents it pretty thoroughly,” he added.

“The ‘Choom Gang,’ that’s what they did,” Marannis said, referring to the gang’s love of “total absorption” (i.e. “hotboxing”). “That was part of his existence during that period.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: choomgang; corruption; democrats; obama; obamaphoto
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To: miss marmelstein

And Zero was not an occasional dabbler in pot... he was hardcore. He admitted in his “autobiography” that he did coke. There was a story about him doing “poppers” (I think that’s a name, whatever it is I have no idea) in connection with a homosexual tryst someone sort of witnessed.


101 posted on 09/12/2013 2:49:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: dennisw

Strangely, I’m just not seeing any Blackness in that photo. Somebody call Cornel West’s office... :)


102 posted on 09/12/2013 2:53:36 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: little jeremiah

Wow —I didn’t know about the POPPERS part.

I lived in SF, and I heard that passive male homoz take them for 2 effects:

1. euphoria

2. butt stuff - relaxes the sphincter, in case the person wants to be butt humped by many people.

JUST WOW.


103 posted on 09/12/2013 2:54:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

It was in an Ulsterman article - verboten on FR - a woman reporter’s account. So could be made up but it had a very authentic ring and details to it. Freepmail me if you want details, you could search for it.

I’ll be back to FR in some hours.


104 posted on 09/12/2013 3:11:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

oh oops okay bunch of losers thinking they are hot stuff there on someone else’s money


105 posted on 09/12/2013 3:17:01 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks nutmeg, I never saw that one until now.

And thanks for all the pings to other threads also my friend!


106 posted on 09/12/2013 3:25:47 PM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“Strangely, I’m just not seeing any Blackness in that photo. Somebody call Cornel West’s office... :”

In this photo Barry is no darker than half of his choom gang buddies whether they be white, Asian or Hawaiian native


107 posted on 09/12/2013 3:41:11 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: yldstrk

;)


108 posted on 09/12/2013 4:08:24 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: little jeremiah

I spend way too much time on FR, but I must have missed any articles or vanity posts that definitively prove recent drug use.

I’m surprised because I’d think they would have caused such massive uproar that I couldn’t have missed them.


109 posted on 09/12/2013 4:19:25 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: gaijin

Poppers are definitely related to the whole gay scene. As someone who worked at Studio 54 in it’s hay day, I remember it. Originally, it was thought to cause AIDs.


110 posted on 09/12/2013 4:24:53 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: wildbill

If you want ironclad “proof”, it won’t be found.

But there is plenty of circumstantion or other evidece that points to ongoing drug use.

With Zero, there is precious little ironclad evidence of ANYTHING. Too many threats, blackmail, and suspicious deaths for people to make themselves targets by telling what they know.


111 posted on 09/12/2013 5:03:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Sacajaweau

Appears to fulfill a “token” function even that long ago....sure glad we got over that sort of thing.......


112 posted on 09/12/2013 5:48:58 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Case back hoe for sale or trade for diesel wood chipper....Enforce the Bill of Rights. It's the Law!)
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To: little jeremiah

Old Friends Say Drugs Played Bit Part in Obama’s Young Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09obama.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


113 posted on 09/13/2013 2:32:15 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: yldstrk

Very accurate.


114 posted on 09/13/2013 7:29:24 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: edpc

True. Barry is so obsessed by his delusions.


115 posted on 09/13/2013 7:36:47 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: edpc

True. Barry is so obsessed by his delusions.


116 posted on 09/13/2013 7:44:53 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Fred Nerks

Yea, “bit” part. Of course that’s what they would say, after being contacted with threats.

Any non-contemporaneous info is suspect.


117 posted on 09/13/2013 2:17:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
Drug use, both pot and cocaine was admitted in the book Ayres wrote.

They didn't try to hide the fact, just minimise.

118 posted on 09/13/2013 2:26:32 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: dennisw

I am two years older than Obama and everybody I knew was smoking dope back then....I smoked everyday....

So this is really no big deal....to me at least....

Also this picture has been around for a while....at least a year ago...


119 posted on 09/13/2013 2:35:00 PM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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To: Popman

You aren’t president of the United States. I like a president who does not have drug use in his past. In Obama’s case this chooming + cocaine did him no good, this carries into today


120 posted on 09/14/2013 10:53:50 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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