ABC News reports that Barack Obama has admitted that he’s smoking cigarettes again:
ABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama told reporters in St. Louis today that he has fallen off the wagon and smoked cigarettes in the last few months.
The presumptive Democratic nominee has been open about his smoking past: Once a heavy smoker, he publicly gave up the habit, per his wife’s request, to run for president.
Since quitting, Obama has indicated in the past that he has “fallen off the wagon” but before today was not specific about how recent his smoking was.
“Months,” Obama said of the last time he has smoked
Yea ? So ?
June 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I am OUTRAGED!!?!?!! How dare the Democrats nominate a man who is an addict?!?! And an addict to the Vile Weed?!? A weed which helps kill old farts and keeps Social[ist] Security solv… er, strike that, results in massive government health care expenditures for an unconstitutional progr… er, Medicare.
The Democrat Party needs to rethink it’s priorities. It needs another nominee.
Maybe Hitlary?
June 11th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Actually, Doug, the beauty of this story lies in the fact that it illustrates the raging inconsistencies in the modern Democrat Party.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Smoking is so thoroughly documented as being deleterious to health, as well as a leading cause of various cancers, that to smoke is to make a statement that you do not value your own life, or the lives of those around you. Smoking is an irrational act.
Therefore, smoking demonstrates that Obama is both weak spirited, suicidal/homicidal and is ruled by emotions rather than rationality; a typical liberal Democrat.
Smokers need to know that, to other citizens, they just stink. Most who elect not to smoke do not care if smokers privately invite cancer into their bodies, but the stench is what disgusts most people. To most who do not smoke, the stench of smoke on a person is much the same as had the smoker smeared themselves with feces, then attempted an embrace; repugnant.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
“Therefore, smoking demonstrates that Obama is both weak spirited, suicidal/homicidal and is ruled by emotions rather than rationality; a typical liberal Democrat.”
Yeah, it’d be much better to be pure like a conservative Republican. They don’t smoke. They’re too busy soliciting anonymous gay sex in public bathrooms. Or, if they’re pious as well like Rev. Ted Haggard, they might throw in a little crystal meth whilst polishing their favorite male prostitute’s knob. Get off your horse, you’re embarrassing yourself.