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Saturday, 26 May 2012
Hope And Choom: You don't have to be stoned to vote for Obama, but it helps!
The president who opposes legalizing marijuana pioneered new ways to smoke it.
Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled "Barack Obama: The Story" gives more detail on Obama's pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama's high school buddies, a group that went by the name "the Choom Gang." Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.
Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.
"As a member of the Choom Gang," Maraniss writes, "Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends."
The first Obama-inspired trend: "Total Absorption" or "TA."
"TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled," explains Maraniss. Here's how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, "you were assessed a penalty and and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around."
As one of Obama's old high school buddies tells Maraniss: "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated."
The Lonely Conservative snarks:
If only he had the same philosophy about taxpayer money that he used to have about weed, we'd be in much better shape.
Question: What is the sound of David Axelrod's weekend getting ruined?
Perhaps we now know what Michelle is really growing in the White House garden, eh?
Total Absorption, man. It puts you into the right frame of mind to vote for Obama. That Romney dude is such a downer, always tellin' us to work and stuff. Who wants that?
Grownups, that's who. The folks who feel betrayed by Hope And Choom.
Richard Furillo stood with his son Matthew at his son's workplace; a lifelong Democrat, he voted for Obama in 2008 but won't again. "I don't know why I did it but I cannot stand any more 'change,'" he said, referring to the president's old campaign slogan.
Think of the upcoming election this way. We now know that President Obama is really Jeff Spicoli, and Mitt Romney is Mr. Hand.
Posted at 10:25 by Chris Wysocki
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