Thursday
Dec182008
Obama smokes - call the cops!
Thursday, December 18, 2008 The Guardian has surpassed itself today. According to "cultural critic" Joe Queenan, "It is a measure of how desperate the American people are that they do not make more of a fuss about their newly-elected president's filthy habit." Full article HERE.
Best comment so far: "I can see a good opportunity for David Cameron to build his relationship with Obama - next time they meet he can just ask him if he fancies stepping out for a smoke."
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Better still, DC could invite Obama into his home for a smoke.
Or his local pub if it has a lock-in!
With tobacco advertisement now banned I was delighted to find that Obama smokes Marlboros at the end of the article. Becasue of this subtle advertisement my friends and I have all switched to this brand.
I think this was a ham-fisted attempt to have a go at those who knock Obama for his smoking. He was making a political point about hypocrisy from Obama opponents, rather than one that was hitting smokers.
The result is one that ASH wouldn't like to see. Total condemnation of a pathetic (pretend) viewpoint. I'd love to see Sandford offer a quote in support, it would be pure blogging Gold.
Yes, I learned this about Barak Obama several months ago from this website http://www.wispofsmoke.net/
which is the work of a charming American lady who goes by the name of Dancing Tiger Bait.
Apparently, when Obama began to see possible Presidency on the horizon, his wife suggested that his smoking habit could jeapordise his chances. He attempted to give up completely, but there was a noticeable spark missing in his speeches and delivery. The theory is that he became a closet smoker. Now that he has won the Presidency, he is maybe relaxing his guard once more. Good for him I say. You never know, maybe this could be one of the cogs in the machinery which is going to get the obsessive, fanatical, exagerrated propaganda about smoking having to back off.
One final point. When I first read about Obama being a closet smoker, it reminded me of another great man who did the same thing, Martin Luther King. He loved his cigarettes, but he was a born again Christian!! shock horror!!
George Bush gave up the drink and transferred his addiction to wars. If Obama gives up smoking - God help Iran and Pakistan!
Desperate measures takes desperate strokes was never so true in this instance, when even the americans are willing to turn a blind eye on a filthy smoker if there's a hope he can get their money and jobs back. Just imagine what would have happened if Palin smoked!
Wouldnt it be great if Obama does turn the economy around and he puts it all down to having the comfort of a smoke.
Churchill...smokeaholic
Hitler...virulent anti-smoker
I wait to see when the PC brigade will rewrite history
There's always exceptions to the rule. Obama is not a libertarian as the world will find out over the next few years.
I think I have similar suspicions to those of Dick Puddlecote. Is Joe Queenan in fact satirising the bigotry of smoking prohibitionists?
One day Obama thought "I need a change of job, being a senator is ok, it has some perks, yet there is something lacking."
So he looked in the wantads. He saw that Scott's Miricle Grow need staff but Oh! No, not people who smoke. So he continued looking and found a vacancy at the WHO. Again they did not want people who smoke.
Feeling slightly miffed as he was a highly qualified candidate and couldn't understand why they would not want him, he then had a great idea. He thought to himself,"let's run for president of the USA!". No restrictions, Yaay!, brilliant and so he did...
The comments are quite funny, especially the rAnti's who seemed to have displaced there anger onto Joe Queenan.
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That he enjoys the occaisional smoke is a large part of Obama's 'everyman' appeal, and some vice in a person is attractive. If you can call it 'vice', that is.
At any rate, if anyone deserves a relaxing fag, its him.
The Democrats are extremely anti-smoking, and will spread the bans to all states as soon as they can, with or without Obama as President.There is always one rule for them and another for us.
The sort of control over peoples lives that Obama will introduce, for their benefit of course, over the coming years will truly put the smoking bans in the shade, and show them up to be just one of the steps to that end.
There is nothing good about his victory,he is a puppet, and the idiots who say he will bring peace are thoroughly brainwashed. If you thought Bush was dangerous, you aint seen nothin' yet. The forces behind Obama, and the debt he owes them, will result in a great deal of carnage, and we will not be unaffected. The campaign was pure fantasy, and the real agenda will take over soon.
I would be very afraid of Obama's presidency, all smokers arent all good.
I dont think he's going to be america's saviour nor the world's messiah. His only proven talent is that he can lift a crowd with rousing rhetoric and is the standard bearer of the new american left obsessed with minorities and multiculturalism.
And he just has to owe his soul to the company store.