While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days.
Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.
In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.”
Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:
"I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me," Obama said. "I went to high school in Hawaii, so there's a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …
"You know, I made some bad decisions …. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't apply myself. It wasn't until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.”
Yep...here we go. More attempts to counter the Romney high school story. This is fun watching you all scramble to dig up anything you can to deflect from Romney the Bully. Get back to us when you have found a verified story of Obama physically attacking another person.
Oh wait...maybe you can find a story about him playing basketball and checking an opponent....quick go find out.
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archer wrote: Yep...here we go. More attempts to counter the Romney high school story. This is fun watching you all scramble to dig up anything you can to deflect from Romney the Bully. Get back to us when you have found a verified story of Obama physically attacking another person.
Oh wait...maybe you can find a story about him playing basketball and checking an opponent....quick go find out.
rofllol
So by quoting his autobiography (best seller) which has been readily available for years, you are showing these ignored facts? Or you could go back to 2008 and find numerous mentions of his past high school years. not even a good try at deflecting.
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Something the Dog Said wrote: So by quoting his autobiography (best seller) which has been readily available for years, you are showing these ignored facts? Or you could go back to 2008 and find numerous mentions of his past high school years. not even a good try at deflecting.
This thread is just a friendly reminder of our Messiah Obama's tainted high school days.
Something the Dog Said wrote: So by quoting his autobiography (best seller) which has been readily available for years, you are showing these ignored facts? Or you could go back to 2008 and find numerous mentions of his past high school years. not even a good try at deflecting.
This thread is just a friendly reminder of our Messiah Obama's tainted high school days.
No it isn't ...it's a piss-poor attempt at deflection from Romney's attack on a fellow student just because he didn't like the way he wore his hair. Great candidate you got there...makes the whole bit with his dog more understandable. Romney has a mean streak.
