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Drugs So Much for Those Stickers
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Remember those "Obama Quit, So Can I" stickers? Well, it looks like he didn't, so maybe you can't...
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” programme, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Mr Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC’s Barbara Walters. Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Mr Obama, “Have you stopped smoking?”
“I have,” Mr Obama replied, smiling broadly. “What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon.”
“Wait a minute,” Brokaw interjected, “that means you haven’t stopped.”
“Fair enough,” Mr Obama said. “What I would say is that I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier. You will not see any violations of these rules in the White House.”
This isn't to say that Obama can't quit. But if he doesn't by next month, the paparazzi will go nuts taking pictures of him in the White House Rose Garden.
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I'm trying to think who the last smoking President was. Did Nixon smoke? I don't think he did. If Johnson smoked, he didn't do it in front of the cameras. Kennedy smoked like a chimney, I'm pretty sure. Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush -- none of them smoked, did they?
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That is awesome. Smokers always quit as soon as they're elected President of the United States during the worst economic crisis in living memory. Right?
Now I want to know what he smokes so I can buy some. The Audacity of Smoke. Then I'll quit when he does, I swear.
Now I want to know what he smokes so I can buy some. The Audacity of Smoke. Then I'll quit when he does, I swear.
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I think he meant he quit smoking regularly but he still has a cigarette occasionally.
Why does it have to be always or never?
Why does it have to be always or never?
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Then said paparazzi will also go nuts repairing the holes in their bodies from Secret Service sniper fire.
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If Obama was smoking, the paparazzi would have caught him already. For f*cks sake, they caught him on the beach in Hawai'i.
That said, if they do catch him smoking, the Republicans will probably try to impeach him for it.
That said, if they do catch him smoking, the Republicans will probably try to impeach him for it.
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Only a massive asshole *cough* #8 *cough* would begrudge Obama a cigarette when he takes the most stressful job in the world.
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Repeatedly falling off the wagon is quitting. That's how you quit, by trying and then trying again.
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If it keeps him from nuking Russia or Iran, then SMOKE, BARACK, SMOKE!!!
And as someone above suggested, WHAT'S THE BIG HONKIN' DEAL IF HE SMOKES???
Ooooo, but then Savage might not like him as much. Ooooo!!
And as someone above suggested, WHAT'S THE BIG HONKIN' DEAL IF HE SMOKES???
Ooooo, but then Savage might not like him as much. Ooooo!!
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Smoking might actually improve our relations with the Middle East. Obama sharing a smoke with a few Middle Eastern leaders will do wonders to our reputation there. Al Quaida would hate it b/c all the youth that they're trying to recruit would look at Obama with a cigarette and tell AQ to fuck off.
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@23, I do believe the President can shape the White House rules to a not-inconsiderable extent, i.e., if he lit up in the Oval Office, bingo, new rule.
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Jack smoked the occasional 'forbidden' Cuban cigar; whereas Jackie (like Laura) smoked incessantly - and yet I have never seen a photograph of Jackie with a cigarette.
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It's weird that conservative wingnuts always use this picture as proof that Obama is a terrible person/muslim, but it's apparently the only picture of Obama smoking, ever.
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@28 - Stupidly ironic, too, considering the biggest tobacco-producing states in the country are also the most conservative!
But then that's the only kind of irony the conservatives know, the stupid kind.
But then that's the only kind of irony the conservatives know, the stupid kind.
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Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. And I didn't have to run for president that year.
I hope he succeeds.
I hope he succeeds.
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I don't mind that Obama smokes, obviously.
But I hate that awful Photoshopped picture of him with the cigarette in his mouth. Qualify that shit!
This is the original image.
But I hate that awful Photoshopped picture of him with the cigarette in his mouth. Qualify that shit!
This is the original image.
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