Junkie Pothead President?
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Quite frankly, I'm suspicious of anyone from my generation who claims they NEVER experimented with drugs and alcohol.I'm glad Obama didn't try the "I didn't inhale" line of bullshit.__________________________________________________________________________________By PHILIP ELLIOTTMANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.Obama stopped by a study hall at Manchester Central High School and answered students' questions about the war in Iraq and his education plan. But when an adult asked about his time as a student, Obama spoke bluntly."I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me," said Obama, an Illinois Democrat who grew up in Hawaii"You know, I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs," he said. "There was a whole stretch of time that I didn't really apply myself a lot. 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.'"Obama has written about his drug use in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father." "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed[/b] : the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071120/D8T1LS1G0.html
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Some of my best friends are junkie potheads!
- spidey
I thought that the prsident of the U.S.A. had to be born in the U.S.A.?
JK.
Slovenia's mystic president
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 19, 2007 2:58 PM | permalink
The London Times profiles Janez Drnovsek, president of Slovenia. After getting cancer Drnovsek began living like a hermit in the woods, and does not speak to members of the government. He's very popular with the citizens of Slovenia.
Bald, monkish and skeletally thin, Drnovsek has abandoned his capital for a mountain retreat. He no longer speaks to his Government. He boycotts state occasions, and disappears for weeks at a time. He has turned vegan, talks like a New Age mystic of his quest for ???higher consciousness??? and ???inner balance???, and communicates with the Slovenian people through books on spirituality. He set out to tackle the problems of the world from a country smaller than Wales, and has become a champion of progressive causes.
...Drnovsek says that his conversion from conventional politician into ???Slovenia???s Gandhi??? ??? as one commentator has dubbed him ??? was gradual, and he adopted a low profile as he fought his illness. He abandoned conventional medicine because his doctors told him that they could not cure him. He dabbled with Indian and Chinese healers. He gave up meat, dairy products and alcohol in favour of organic vegetables and home-baked bread. He fasted for days at a time. He also sought to nourish his soul, leaving Ljubljana for a remote home set in beautiful beech forests south of the Slovenian capital. He lives there alone, reading and writing, without so much as a television for company since his dog died. He says modern man has lost contact with nature, but it is ???very beneficial for health, for body but also for soul . . . Somehow we can purify ourselves of all negativities that are concentrated in towns and urban centres where there is all this activity and stress.???
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.