Posted on 01/18/2016 7:25:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last week, President Barack Obama told the audience that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California the smog sometimes got so bad that "people just wouldn't go outside."
"And if you had asthma or some respiratory disease, you might die," said Obama.
"I remember as recently as 1979, when I first started college--I started college in Los Angeles--when I went running, the first week I was there, after about five minutes I'd start feeling a burning in my chest," said the president. "And it was just me sucking in soot and smog." ...
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How many years has he been smoking cigarettes now?
the fairy boy has had far too many drugs. I actually think he believes the crap he spouts now.
Yeah. It was bad and is a lot better now.
And government did not have to take over whole economies or industries to do it.
Yes, I remember.
But not nearly as bad Peking is today.
I remember reading a writer from the early Spanish colonial period who described the persistent haze in the air around Los Angeles.
What 0bama sucked in was cigarettes, dope smoke, and d!cks...
It wasn’t as bad as China, they at times have smog like thick fog, sometimes even purple smog. China is worse than Pittsburgh at the peak of the steel mills.
Yes. One of the lies or exaggerations.
Definitely not as bad as Peking or other cities today.
“There’s a fog upon L.Ayayayay
And my friends have lost their wayayay.......”
George Harrison - Blue Jay Way
0bama is a liar, the worst of the smog in SoCA was in the fifties. By the time Governor Reagan took office it wasn’t like bambam portrays it to be.
Well could it be because LA is in a VALLEY!!?!??! Hello.
Obama was a chain smoker back then. Maybe his inability to run had something to do with that. Or maybe he was just too stoned to run anywhere but the Pizza store.
Dont bother trying to give Commie Obama facts, he, like other Commies refuse to listen to the TRUTH, they are blinded by their Fascist agenda
Which college did he attend in 1979?
They’ll be over soon they say-ay-ay-ay....
...The weather was hot and sticky and the acid sting of the smog had crept as far west as Beverly Hills. From the top of Mulholland Drive you could see it leveled out all over the city like a ground mist. When you were in it you could taste it and smell it and it made your eyes smart. Everybody was griping about it. In Pasadena, where the stuffy millionaires holed up after Beverly Hills was spoiled for them by the movie crowd, the city fathers screamed with rage. Everything was the fault of the smog. If the canary wouldn't sing, if the milkman was late, if the Pekinese had fleas, if an old coot in a starched collar had a heart attack on the way to church, that was the smog. Where I lived it was usually clear in the early morning and nearly always at night. Once in a while a whole day would be clear, nobody quite knew why.
1967
I started working in Anaheim in 1962, did not see the Fulerton hills for the first 6 months.
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