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Smokin': Obama and his cigs

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JayFarrar, Feb 7, 2007.

  1. He also doesn't care for approval polls. So does that make him a poll-smoker?
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I hope he's not quitting just because he's running for President.
     
  3. Pringle

    Pringle Active Member

    As weird as this sounds, I feel like smoking is good for his candidacy. He's such a "golden boy" that an imperfection makes him more human.
     
  4. westcoastvol

    westcoastvol Active Member

    Ford smoked a pipe.

    And poll-smoker was hilarious.
     
  5. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    JFK did smoke, though I don't know if he did daily or not.

    I'm pretty sure there are allusions to that in Bradlee's memoir.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I ain't voting for Obama. They just redid the Lincoln Bedroom and I don't want cigarette burns everywhere. It's my tax money, dammit.
     
  7. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Smoking makes you cool and that just adds to Barack's luster.
    The article implied that Ike quit before he was elected, but I seem to remember pics of him in the oval office puffing away. But Kennedy, Nixon, Bush I, and Clinton all enjoyed cigars, while Ford was a pipe smoker.
    I like it that Laura Bush is a secret smoker. But George Dub is such a fitness nut that it almost seems he's traded one addiction for another.
     
  8. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Remember, if she smokes, she pokes.

    I'mjustsayin'...
     
  9. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    JFK smoked cigars, Cigar Aficionado has the humidor at its office.
     
  10. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    And if he hadn't fucked up at the Bay of Pigs, you guys could smoke Cubans. :)
     
  11. Cubans are overrated.
     
  12. Lester Bangs

    Lester Bangs Active Member

    Our greatest American president -- Jed Bartlet -- smoked.
     
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