It's over. Obama's toast. He smokes.

[trof]

"Sen. Barack Obama has the sort of voice that political consultants dream of: It's authoritative but comforting, rich and resonant and wise. Whether he's talking about the Darfur genocide or Monday Night Football, the man sounds like a leader. His voice helps account for why even hardened cynics go weak at the knees when they hear him. One of my friends prides himself on being strictly nonpartisan, but after listening to Obama's Dreams From My Father, read by the senator himself, he confessed to me, "I shouldn't say this, but I love him."

There are plenty of reasons for Obama's magic voice: where he grew up, how his parents talked, how he breathes. But perhaps most important is one Obama doesn't want to talk about: cigarettes. Obama is an occasional smoker.

Smoking over time transforms a person's voice by thickening and drying out the vocal chords. The vocal chords vibrate as your breath passes through them, so their texture and shape helps determine what your voice sounds like. David Witsell, who directs Duke University's Voice Care Center, notes that the nodules on Johnny Cash's vocal cords that stemmed in part from his smoking habit helped create his unique sound. "Many famous voices in history have pathologies that are part of their vocal signatures," Witsell says."
http://www.slate.com/id/2157523/

Too bad. Now he's suddenly non-electable. It's a well known fact that all smokers are filthy, vile, disease spreading creatures with absolutely no regard for their fellow citizens.
Sayonara, Obama. You seemed like a decent guy. Appearances can sure be deceiving.

[bdamomma]

1. now that is weird

it's over for Obama because he smokes, in the meantime, we have alcohol/coke snorter Psycho killer in the WH, :wtf:

[Warpy]

11. Right, and he gave up cigarettes like he gave up booze

Uh-huh, right.

[Tellurian]

21. HA! Brilliant! Now Bama can run a non-smoking campaign to give up SMOKING..

the Pied Piper of giving up smoking!

LOVEIT!

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. ROTFLMAO!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: Now THAT was funny!

and oh so TRUE!:rofl:

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[mike_c]

2. BUT he's never been caught breast feeding in public....

Someone had to say it.

[KittyWampus]

4. does he eat at Olive Garden

[crikkett]

33. what's wrong with olive garden?

[ContraBass Black]

37. It was the subject of an infamous DU flamewar.

[trof]

6. Prolly a 'closet' breastfeeder, too.

[Sapere aude]

3. Great, another smoking thread, can we get a SUV thread going this morning too?

How about an illegal vs legal immigration thread or maybe a progressive vs DLC thread. That's what I need. Something to give me a little different perspective on things.

[trof]

10. He drives a Hummer.

;-)

[Lex]

20. and eats at Olive Garden. nt

[Momgonepostal]

25. After shopping at Wal-Mart nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

54. He drives? That'll stop when he's prez

and he'll ride in a big motorcade full of Hummers and other SUVs.

What kind of mileage does an armored limousine get? Maybe he'll get one that runs on ethanol or hydrogen.

[helderheid]

5. But does he inhale?

[trof]

35. Worse. He 'French' inhales.

degenerate

[ContraBass Black]

7. .

Which is to say, we've been over this one several times already.

[Crazy Dave]

8. But he's helping the government

Cigarettes are highly taxed and the funds sure don't go towards health care or education.

[dogday]

9. It would be over if he were smoking a blunt

but last I looked ciggs and cigars are still legal.... Drinking too.....

[cynatnite]

12. As long as he's not snorting cocaine n/t

[MistressOverdone]

13. Yes, he's doomed.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Nicoderm smells an opportunity!

They're contacting Obama's team as we speak to do reality commercials while he's on the campaign trail!

[flobee1]

15. BS

JFK was a cigar smoker
didn't seem to kill his chances


The right is desparately trying to dig up dirt on Obama, and they cant find a damn thing that hasn't already been stated by Obama himself!
Obama=Osama?
Past drug use?
Hussein?

give me a break

I heard one newscaster even try to compare Obama's shirt styles to that of the Iranian president!
:rofl:

[seabeyond]

26. my father the repug has called twice this week to tell me he could vote

for obama. cant say his name. i have to tel him everytime. i even gave his middle name HUSSEIN, and dad sounded annoyed i would empahasize that as if it may be an issue, lol lol. dad thinks anyone can be a repug going up in '08 and that repug offering slim... only one he could vote for is guilliani (sp?) and we doubt he will run. too much history.

[NI4NI]

40. don't forget about his Waahabbi schooling.

when he was a kid living in Indonesia. The madrasas were he learned to hate America and everything that's not Islamic fundementalism.

This is the utter bullshit I heard on a wingnut radio station today, and according to the host, it was Hillary Clinton's campaign that intiated the story after what "her hired investigators" found out.

I quess the POS right wing SOB thinks he can smear Obama and Clinton together with the same handful of crap.
What a pathetic waste of oxygen.

[shain from kane]

16. Barack Hussein Obama smokes Camels. Republican talking point, for sure.

[CoffeeCat]

17. I'd rather have a pResident who smokes....

...than this "smoke and mirrors" warmongering clown monkey- who is probably sitting in the
West Wing right now--chortling at his own alcohol-induced farts.

[Virginia Dare]

18. When did smoking start making you a pariah in the White House?

I know that Jackie Kennedy hid her smoking habit, somewhat understandable since she had a classy ladylike image to uphold, but really when did it not become acceptable for a President to smoke, and why? It's certainly not out of the social norms at this point in time? What's the big deal? :shrug:

I won't even get into the multitude of personal secrets the current White House resident is involved in, that the press seems to want to ignore.

[Tellurian]

24. The SHEEP follow anything that can be construed as a negative..

they identify themselves by their petty ignorance..

[seabeyond]

27. ah bullshit. a large group on du have continually equated a smoker to a bad

person....

this is NOT just some rw smoke screen and if we pretend it is .... the hypocrisy, that i will NOT ignore. rw my arse.

[Tellurian]

42. Wait...ah, yes...by the name of the same tune..

Smooooooke GETS in Your "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII's"


G.O.A.T.

Greatest of ALL Times!

:hi:

[seabeyond]

46. i am gigglin on this thread

couldnt have worked for my agenda better..... (yes agenda. getting beyond creating all of a person out of a very little part of who he is). the whole sheep, follow the rules at all cost and even have posters working with me to further make the point. life is interesting, universe comical. a joy all around

i guess the goat is better than a sheep. at least the goat cant do a little buttin with the head

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

53. I thought the White House was a smoke-free building

So the president will have to go out to the parking lot to light up. And listen to the fake cough and hack of every non-smoker coming in to work through the lot. It's just so demeaning for the leader of the free world.

[JVS]

19. As long as no pics appear, he's in the clear

[seabeyond]

28. cause god forbid a kid may see it. much more to live in a shroud of shame

bah hahahah. right. hide nonperfections is the answer. in the closet you go. denial

[JVS]

29. I don't make up the rules, I just know them

[seabeyond]

30. ignore them, dont read them, dont know them, confident i can figure out how to

walk life with a set of rule books. have someone who is all fucked up telling me how to live. i think not. can figure it out myself. trust me more

[JVS]

32. Preachy much? I'm blocking you

I said nothing but what the common percerption is and you start arguing with me as though I endorse it.

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[trof]

38. Great line! I'm stealing it.

;-)

[bdamomma]

22. what BS uncle karl is at it again

[seabeyond]

23. DEATH to him. HANG 'em..... how silly we all look as a nation n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

34. Furthermore I have it on good authority

that he shits in the toilet like the rest of us, and that it doesn't smell like daffodils.

Now that the secret is out that he produces vile, filthy, disease-bearing execrement, surely he will never be elected.

[trof]

39. Whoa! Now THAT one I didn't know. Link?

Are you sure?

[Swamp Rat]

41. "It's a well known fact that all smokers are filthy, vile, disease spreading creatures"

flamebait.

[skypilot]

44. I'm going on the assumption...

...that the OP was being facetious. Although, it is getting harder to tell around here lately.

[trof]

45. A warranted assumption.

Oh, shoot.
Now I've given it all away.
;-)

[Swamp Rat]

48. Thanks!!! ... you got me!!

:D

edit: I need a coffee... :D

[skypilot]

50. Phew!!!

That is a relief.:) :smoke:

[Swamp Rat]

47. .

trof got me. :D

[ileus]

43. agreed!

[Midlodemocrat]

51. Trof. What does this have to do with global warming?

[trof]

52. Global warming is anti-gay AND anti-black.

Ask matcom.
He has all the stats.

[Bluebear]

55. Smoke em if you got em, Senator. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

56. Clinton smoked cigars, Bush smokes the occasional turd.

This thread is a smoking pile of flamebait.

[devilgrrl]

57. It is said that * and Pickles smoke too.

Then there's the twins.