Horror! Barack Obama SMOKES......

[BlackVelvet04]

does that disqualify him as a presidential candidate?

[AIJ Alom]

1. Hell no. I smoke and it makes me feel good ! Besides Obama

should run for president in 12 years after he quits smoking.

[AnnInLa]

2. depends on what he smokes?

doesn't bother me. Maybe he doesn't inhale?

[Demobrat]

3. Depends.

Smokes what?

[BlackVelvet04]

8. The most evil of all things.....CIGARETTES. N/T

[acmejack]

25. He was smart enough to say that inhaling was the point...

He wasn't talking about tobacco then...

[porphyrian]

4. Well, not in California!

I guess I really can't give a shit.

[WI_DEM]

5. So did FDR, Ike, JFK...

[jannyk]

6. So did Bill or were those

now infamous cigars just a prop. I believe Georgy boy smokes the odd Cuban too.

[youthere]

67. Yes...

but the Cubans don't like it very much. Ba-dump-dump. Thank you very much..I'll be here all week...try the veal.

[Alameda]

7. smoking presidents

FDR smoked too....

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. I'm sorry, but WTF does the fact that Barack Obama smokes

cigarettes have anything to do with him running for President?

Last time I checked selling and using tobacco in this country was still legal.

[BlackVelvet04]

15. It doesn't bother me a bit....

but there are a lot of people who think that smoking cigarettes is evil. It costs them money, ya know?

[AnnInLa]

10. And this from Wonkette:

www.wonkette.com

The Hill reports:

The incoming Democratic leadership team is already trying to snuff out a vestige of GOP rule: the practice of smoking in the Speaker’s Lobby.

Already with the moralizing and fun-hating. Dammit, Democrats, can’t you give the nation a break to hope for things to improve before you start reminding everyone why they haven’t voted for you in twenty years? Christ, we need a cigarette.

[BlackVelvet04]

19. The health police make me want to puke.....if they keep it up

I'm going to be voting for an independent or something next go round.

[BlackVelvet04]

11. I wonder how many of the smoking nazis would

kick Barack Obama out of a restaurant if he lit up?

[EstimatedProphet]

12. NO! He must be cleansed!

He is Unclean!

[MrSlayer]

13. As long as he isn't smoking crack or PCP.

It has nothing to do with anything otherwise.

[The Straight Story]

20. I wish bush would smoke some crack, might actually improve his intelligence

:evilgrin:

[qanda]

14. I love Barack Obama

But I have to admit that I think that is a very poor choice. Black people have enough diseases to worry about without adding smoking to mix. I hope he stops soon but only for his health's sake, I still think he will make a fine president.

[Mojambo]

16. No, but it means I won't be kissing him.

Quite the shame.

[tridim]

17. Tucker is shocked!

Shocked I tell you!

He thinks no Dem should smoke because some Dems don't like smoking. Stunning logic there Tucker.

[The Straight Story]

18. Hide the children and call their nanny :)

He just got my vote.

[BlackVelvet04]

21. It's as good a reason as any, I guess. n/t

[zreosumgame]

22. I would laugh if I had not seen that earlier

It is scary just how dictatorial some so-called 'liberals' are here.

[BlackVelvet04]

24. Well, they think if they get a whiff of cigarette smoke they will fall over

dead.

[zreosumgame]

28. I know, I know it's crazy

folks who will gobble for hours about how repukes have taken science and made it into rubbish as far as global warming or energy production or stem-cell research swollow anything a dumbaya appointee will say about 2nd hand smoke.

[SidDithers]

50. Dumbya appointee...typical myopic response...

It's as if the world ends at the American borders to some of you people.

Regular exposure to second-hand smoke increases the chances of contracting lung disease by 25% and heart disease by 10%. - Health Canada
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/second/fact-fait/index_e.html

Exposure to other people's cigarette smoke (second-hand smoke, passive smoking, environmental tobacco smoke) can: increase the risk of contracting smoking related diseases such as cancer and heart disease; place extra stress on the heart and affect the body's ability to take in and use oxygen; trigger asthma attacks; increase the chances of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); and harm children and babies even more than adults. - UK Department of Health
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/AnnualReports/AnnualReportsBrowsableDocument/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4094860&MULTIPAGE_ID=4873781&chk=dOaScU

There is clear scientific evidence of an increased risk of lung cancer in non-smokers exposed to SHS. This increased risk is estimated at 20% in women and 30% in men who live with a smoker (2). Similarly, it has been shown that non-smokers exposed to SHS in the workplace have a 16 to 19% increased risk of developing lung cancer (3). The risk of presenting lung cancer increases with the degree of exposure. - World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/tobacco/research/secondhand_smoke/faq/en/index.html

Amazing, huh?

Sid

[T Town Jake]

60. "It's as if the world ends at the American borders to some of you people"

...ah, dripping condescension as a debate tactic. I've seen it before from others who hail from the Great White North when they find something they feel especially superior about to their southern cousins - which is just about everything, from what I can tell.

Tell me: how does it feel to live in that perfectest, error-free, all-problems-solved, absolutely utopian paradise that is the country with the leaf on its flag? Is it just the specialist thing ever?

[SidDithers]

63. Some posts are worthy of condescension...

ascribing the potential dangers from second-hand smoke to Bushco propaganda certainly fits the bill.

Sid

[T Town Jake]

66. And you do it so well! I bet it's a blast being perfect, huh?

:eyes:

:puke:

[onecent]

23. Didn't I hear that Pickles lights up also??? Who really cares?

[caledesi]

68. Pickles loves her ciggies. nt

[roody]

26. A message from California.

Barak, you might as well give it up now, it is just too inconvenient.

[SidDithers]

27. Doesn't disqualify him...

but does show either a lack of intelligence or willpower.

Sid

[Spider Jerusalem]

31. That's a rather stupid comment.

I'm guessing you're a lifelong nonsmoker, eh? They being generally the only people who say such things, in my experience; one's choice of vices says nothing about one's intelligence, and the idea that willpower is all you need to beat an addiction is a pernicious and idiotic myth.

[BlackVelvet04]

34. I wonder what it would be like to be so perfect

as to not have any vices. Do you think Sid has any or do you think he always demonstrates the utmost intelligence and self-control in his choices?

[SidDithers]

37. 52% of smokers try to quit...

If it's all it's cracked up to be, why do more than half of you try to quit? http://www.cdc.gov/Tobacco/datahighlights/Page4.htm

Either you're not smart enough to know it's killing you, or you do know it's killing you but you're too weak to do anything about it. Either excuse reveals a deep character flaw, AFAIC.

But hey, puff away. I see it as thinning the herd.

Sid

[Spider Jerusalem]

43. Your attitude reveals a deep character flaw.

A tendency to smug, self-righteous jackassery is hardly what one could call a positive trait.

[jmowreader]

49. The one overarching reason smokers try to quit

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

A vast number of men started smoking during World War II, when the Army issued cigarettes with the K-rations.

When the price of smokes started going up, they started to try to quit.

[Union Thug]

57. Wow, I smoke a lot of pot but I've never been as high as you!

Geezus, man. Must be great to be such a perfect, high and mighty specimen.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

58. Millions of people go on diets every day too

If eating lard-laden snack foods was all it was cracked up to be....:eyes:

Smoking's not the best thing for you, admittedly, but why don't people condemn all sorts of other dangerous behaviors with the same vigor? Maybe because just about everybody does something they shouldn't?

[GreenArrow]

45. something like this, maybe?

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues". -- Abe Lincoln --

Or this, perhaps...

"Many without punishment, none without sin". -- John Ray --

[IntravenousDemilo]

36. Ex-smokers are often worse than lifelong non-smokers.

They're full of this almost evangelical missionary zeal that manifests itself in contempt. I know, I am one, and it's a constant battle not to feel smug. But I do try not to be, because I've been there.

However, Sid has a bit of a point regarding willpower, anyway. Hitler was a non-smoker and he had tremendous willpower -- in fact, ever see "Triumph of the Will?" The Nazis were chock full of "will" power, even "triumphantly" so.

But Churchill and FDR weren't non-smokers, and the rest is history.

[NEDem]

38. yeah, I quit a year and a half ago

It is hard not to be a jerk about it.

[GreenArrow]

47. Sid's point is not that good, actually

Having worked with alcoholics, for example, and having them in my family, I can assure you that most of them have absolutely tremendous willpower, except when it comes to not drinking.

The "willpower" argument is typical of those who have not the experience which they criticize.

[Union Thug]

56. I quit cigarettes 5 years ago..and I don't care if people smoke.

I don't care at all. I don't feel any smugness, I simply don't care. It's none of my business. Maybe it's because I continue to smoke pot regularly, but to each his or her own.

[Katherine Brengle]

53. Actually, I agree and I was a smoker...

and my husband still is, much to my despair.

[T Town Jake]

62. As a life-long non smoker, I'm hear to tell you that what makes me sick...

...is the prudish self-righteousness of some of my fellow non-smokers. They remind me of fundy tub-thumpers raging against homosexuals or women's right to choose in some backwoods pellagra pulpit when some of them get their dander up about whether their neighbor smokes cigarettes or not. It's a very strange thing to witness from so-called "progressives."

[baby_mouse]

29. GASP! Hide him somewhere, quick! Before Karl finds out!

:rofl:

[Ian David]

30. He also owns a pitbull and breastfeeds his children in public! n/t

[BuyingThyme]

32. No, but the fact that he's adopted Bush's

faith-based philosophy certainly does.

[LWolf]

33. Bingo. n/t

[LittleClarkie]

35. I just had a Rocky Horror moment

So Barack is like Brad eh?

[graywarrior]

39. No, he's SMOKIN' !

[IntravenousDemilo]

40. "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -- Thornton Wilder

Wilder also wrote that those who have no vices also tend to make a vice out of all their virtues.

[FogerRox]

42. LOL ha ha ha.

that was pefect IntravenousDemilo. ! ! ! !

[BlackVelvet04]

48. I LOVE it.....

that's absolutely it.

[MazeRat7]

41. Well thank heaven he doesn't own a Pit Bull..... (n/t)

[Union Thug]

52. LOL! Yeah, and a handgun. n/t

[tammywammy]

59. Or keep a taser gun.

:P

[KSU Wildcat]

44. He will save the country money.

He is paying the high tobacco taxes and he will probably not live a long life so his government pension will not have to pay him long.

[meisje]

46. poor judgement.... next

[Union Thug]

51. So what? Smoke away, Barack.

I no longer smoke cigarettes, but the anti-smoking nazis get on my nerves.

[bbinacan]

54. I like him even more! n/t

[Jamastiene]

55. *gasp*

*cough* *cough*

The horror. *cough*

[pitohui]

61. he's smokin' hot all right EOM

.

[RiverStone]

64. As much as I hate the stench of Cig smoke, it is his damn business...

I'd vote for Borack in a heartbeat!!! He won't be blowing it in my face. Unlike BushCo, who's GD lies has blown lots of death, fear, and sadness around the world.

We all chose our own poisons, Borack choses his; Bush poisons our country.

[bbgrunt]

65. Oh My LORD!!! get him to the nunnery posthaste

[rocktivity]

69. As long as he doesn't inhale!

rocknation