A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot. A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning "to smoke marijuana."
As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called "TA," short for "total absorption." To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled.
Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.
When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated," explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.
He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an abandoned warehouse. … According to Topolinski, Ray the dealer was "freakin' scary." Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful because of his ability to "score quality weed." ... In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Paul's was more of a philosophical belief. Barry has much more practical knowledge.
Modern Presidents & Pot... Clinton, GWB and Obama... all dabbled with pot in their youth... only GWB had an actual addiction to alcohol, and was a heavy cocaine user.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Modern Presidents & Pot... Clinton, GWB and Obama... all dabbled with pot in their youth... only GWB had an actual addiction to alcohol, and was a heavy cocaine user.
Oh...It's almost a prerequisite is what you are saying?
America is $15 Trillion in debt and climbing and we are losing our civil liberties by the day. I think that in your attempt to use moral equivocation in defense of your leader, you may have stumbled across the common thread that has led to the steady decline in American leadership.
BTW...Obama in his own book talked about using "maybe a little blow". But of course, not an addict. He's the messiah, that's not possible.
Oh...It's almost a prerequisite is what you are saying?
America is $15 Trillion in debt and climbing and we are losing our civil liberties by the day. I think that in your attempt to use moral equivocation in defense of your leader, you may have stumbled across the common thread that has led to the steady decline in American leadership.
BTW...Obama in his own book talked about using "maybe a little blow". But of course, not an addict. He's the messiah, that's not possible.
I've heard Obama called the "Messiah" several times... except for a few delusional, possibly mentally ill individuals, that term almost always originates on the Right... not the Left.
Of course after being saddled with correcting the disaster that is the "Bush Economic Meltdown"... If Obama succeeds in that almost impossible task... I may start calling him the Messiah too!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
There is a whole bunch of people that STILL can't come to terms with the fact that a black man is President of the USA. I wonder how they are going to react when he wins reelection for 4 more years? What would it mean if a Kenyan born immigrant, of mixed race, who's a socialist, bent on turning the US into Europe, wins reelection by a vast majority of the voters?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
There is a whole bunch of people that STILL can't come to terms with the fact that a black man is President of the USA. I wonder how they are going to react when he wins reelection for 4 more years? What would it mean if a Kenyan born immigrant, of mixed race, who's a socialist, bent on turning the US into Europe, wins reelection by a vast majority of the voters?
There is a whole bunch of people that STILL can't come to terms with the fact that a black man is President of the USA. I wonder how they are going to react when he wins reelection for 4 more years? What would it mean if a Kenyan born immigrant, of mixed race, who's a socialist, bent on turning the US into Europe, wins reelection by a vast majority of the voters?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!....He pulls the race card!
WTF does this have to with 'Da Preezy of the United Steezy' being a stoner who likes nose candy?
What's next?....You going to try and convince me that the 'birther' movement was started by radical right-wingers?
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
WTF does this have to with 'Da Preezy of the United Steezy' being a stoner who likes nose candy?
What's next?....You going to try and convince me that the 'birther' movement was started by radical right-wingers?
Of course not... the Radical Right Wingers, obsessed as they are, are smarter than that.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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The first bong President! With accomplishments to match. How did he get into Columbia and Harvard Law again? 
