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President Obama Says Photos of High School Drug Use Might Have Derailed Political Rise
Washington Times ^ | - Monday, April 24, 2017 | By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Posted on 04/24/2017 1:58:50 PM PDT by drewh

Former President Obama said Monday that if his checkered pre-politics life had taken place in today’s social media oversaturated world, he might not have been able to win the White House.

He repeated stories about his own drug use in his younger days, saying that marijuana use was “what teenage kids did at that age when I was growing up.”

And while he wrote about those experiences in his book, he acknowledged that if that behavior had been documented more thoroughly it might have derailed his political career.

“If you had pictures of everything I’d done when I was in high school I probably wouldn’t have been president of the United States,” Mr. Obama said as he spoke to students at the University of Chicago, making his first return to the public stage since leaving office in January.

He was asked about social media and how it can come back to bite young people in the future, and he cautioned them to be aware.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obamadruguse; obamalegacy; obamalies; obamamarxist; potheads
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To: 2banana

Designation as a foreign student maybe?


21 posted on 04/24/2017 2:10:51 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Obama’s habitual drug usage”

Like when he was being interviewed and when the auto bailout came up, he got the giggles and almost could not stop?


22 posted on 04/24/2017 2:11:17 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: stormhill

hmmm....I’m sensing a theme developing on this thread.

People who came of age in the 70’s who are TICKED OFF that a former POTUS has just called us all drug users.


23 posted on 04/24/2017 2:11:46 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 2banana
Can we see your SEALED college applications and transcripts now?

Why not? What are you hiding?

That's easy. Obama is hiding the fact that he's a stupid jackass who only went to college because of Affirmative Action admission policies and Affirmative Action free-money Scholarships.

He's hiding the fact that his grades are horrible, and demonstrate that he's a simple minded fool who never should have graduated, let alone gotten anywhere in life.

Rest assured, if Obama's grades were any good, they would have been pushed in our faces constantly over the last 8 years. His grades are horrible because he's an idiot.

24 posted on 04/24/2017 2:11:49 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: drewh

At least he didn’t try to tell us that he didn’t inhale.


25 posted on 04/24/2017 2:12:39 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: 2banana
Can we see your SEALED college applications and transcripts now?

Nobody willingly reveals that stuff.

Bush's grades were leaked to the press by somebody at Yale.

Kerry's transcript was available in the military records that he released to the media in order to answer his critics.

McCain's class ranking at Annapolis was in the public record.

None of them would have released their grades if they had a choice.

26 posted on 04/24/2017 2:12:39 PM PDT by x
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To: drewh

Yeah, and if they could have found documentation of where you were actually born, your senate career would have ended as well...


27 posted on 04/24/2017 2:12:40 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ifinnegan

Ballard High School, Huxley, Iowa
http://www.ballard.k12.ia.us/school/ballard-high-school/


28 posted on 04/24/2017 2:13:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: drewh

Maybe this will keep his oldest spawn out of politics, then.


29 posted on 04/24/2017 2:13:22 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: drewh

“If you had pictures of everything I’d done when I was in high school I probably wouldn’t have been president of the United States,”

Obviously because taking pictures in the football team’s shower was off-limits.


30 posted on 04/24/2017 2:13:29 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: BenLurkin
Fraud He admits he is a fraud.

Sensible people realized that more than a decade ago. Yes, he's a fraud, and he always was.

31 posted on 04/24/2017 2:13:58 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: drewh

““If you had pictures of everything I’d done when I was in high school I probably wouldn’t have been president of the United States,” “

Well duh - call Mike Wallace and Morley Safer.


32 posted on 04/24/2017 2:14:47 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: drewh

Did someone take a video of Malaria lying drunk on the sidewalk


33 posted on 04/24/2017 2:14:59 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: drewh

“’If you had pictures of everything I’d done when I was in high school I probably wouldn’t have been president of the United States,’ Mr. Obama said.”

Twerking?


34 posted on 04/24/2017 2:15:52 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: DBrow
Like when he was being interviewed and when the auto bailout came up, he got the giggles and almost could not stop?

There was one of his appearances on television where he was out and out stoned. You can tell just by looking at him that his mind is fogged out.

http://theblacksphere.net/2014/02/obama-stoned-interview-olympics/>

35 posted on 04/24/2017 2:17:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That and also this guy is trying to play coy about having smoked pot when we all know he IS a coke fiend


36 posted on 04/24/2017 2:17:57 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: drewh

I very happily don’t care what obama says, thinks, does. I don’t care where he goes, who he talks to or where he plays golf. Or if he plays golf. He is less than nothing to me.


37 posted on 04/24/2017 2:18:38 PM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: drewh

“He repeated stories about his own drug use in his younger days, saying that marijuana use was “what teenage kids did at that age when I was growing up.” “

Bravo Sierra. That’s what SOME teenage kids did.


38 posted on 04/24/2017 2:21:12 PM PDT by jagusafr
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To: ifinnegan

Barry didn’t grow up in the 70s. Just saying.


39 posted on 04/24/2017 2:21:21 PM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: DiogenesLamp

40 posted on 04/24/2017 2:21:40 PM PDT by 4Liberty (PRESIDENT TRUMP: Making Private Property Rights great again!)
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