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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Facts will not get in the way of political statements from our dear leader,............
Another lie from Zero.
He went running my a$$. That soot and smog in your lungs was from the toking you were doing on that large blunt.
Didn't think so.
Liars lie.
Exactly. Brown was Governor in 1979.
And the smog predated Reagan as well.
It was never that bad.
Obama is criminally insane.
The smog was in Obama’s head
For the logically-challenged, low information voter, this can mean only one thing: Republicans cause smog. It is truly HORRIFYING that there are enough people out there who “think” this way and can influence the outcome of an election!
I recall that LA had smog in the carter years too.
Carter's fault. < / 0.5 s >
He is like the Clintoons, lie even though you will be called on it later. It is the effect of the moment that counts!
No, it wasn’t, but it was much worse then than it is now. Ain’t technology grand?
I’m sure all those bong hits and cigarettes had nothing to do with why your chest burned. Such a drama queen.
“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.” ...
Oddly for Obama this is only partial lies and exaggeration. For example:
“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.” ...
It’s true to some degree. Really smoggy days could make a tickle in the throat or other effects.
I remember that tickle on a lot of summer days spent at the pool.
But there was no soot, and it was not just after five minutes.
And, the dude smoked.
ya , technology fixed the Smog problem ,not Politicians
Despite the Obama lies, it WAS bad in LA in the mid-70’s.
It was pretty bad.
But no one was going to die and there was no soot.
It didn’t seem that bad because we were used to it.
But now, we can see the San Gabriel mountains every day when in the 70’s only once in a while, the smog was so bad.
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