Barack Snowbaba?
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What do you think the GOP will do with this guys Snowy past?
ox News Battering Obama Over Book's Admissions
Reported by Judy - January 3, 2007 - 188 comments
The mainstream media finally got around to reading Barack Obama's 11-year-old autobiography which includes an admission of drug use as a teen-ager, so Fox News Wednesday (January 3, 2007) took the opportunity to go overboard and suggest Obama was a drug addict. Updated with video.
While portraying Obama in the most negative light possible, Fox News downplayed comparisons between Obama's candor over his youthful mistakes and allegations of cocaine use by George Bush.
The smearing of Obama started on "Fox and Friends First" with co-hosts Kiran Chetry, Steve Doocy, and Andrew Napolitano discussing the Washington Post article about the impact of the drug use admissions in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Just to make sure no one missed the point, Fox News displayed a banner that read, "Obama Cocaine Confession."
Chetry got off message, however, by noting that Obama admitted to cocaine use "as did our current president, who admited to cocaine use, correct?" After Doocy and Napolitano interrupted, Chetry backpedaled, saying, "Who was it that said they witnessed him doing cocaine?" Still not getting any support from her co-hosts, Chetry gave up and the trio went on to paint Obama in as negative a light as possible.
"We don't know that he did it once," Doocy said.
Then Doocy went on to suggest that Obama had tried to hide the book, claiming that, "something like only 20,000 copies exist, but somebody at the Washington Post found a copy, read it."
As the Post article points out, only 20,000 copies were printed when the book was first published, but the book was recently reissued, with a run of 800,000. So getting a copy is not all that hard. In fact, I uncovered one at Barnes and Noble last spring, read it, and reviewed it recently for News Hounds. Would you like my copy, Steve?
Fox News was just getting warmed up. In the next hour, on "Fox and Friends," Doocy and Napolitano reprised their discussion, this time with co-host Gretchen Carlson. Carlson did not make Chetry's mistake of trying to compare Bush and Obama. This time, everyone stayed on message, criticizing Democrats only, such as Bill Clinton, for marijuana use.
Napolitano went so far as to suggest that Obama had been a drug addict, saying voters will ask themselves, "Do we want somebody like that in the White House, who was addicted to drugs in his teen-aged years?" Doocy corrected him that it was unclear whether Obama was "addicted," but the damage was done.
Doocy himself then insisted that Obama was "kind of boasting" about not having used heroin, although it's not clear how Doocy would know that since he hasn't read the book.
While taking every opportunity to smear Obama, Doocy suggested that it really was Democrats who would be doing it, saying "remember it'll be on the Democratic side first." And Napolitano claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton's will take advantage saying, "So this is good news for Hillary."
And the three brought up the topic in another segment about presidential contenders in general, with Napolitano calling Obama, "Mr. Personality and no substance."
Missing from the Fox News discussion was the fact that Obama knew when the book was reissued that the incidents he discussed would cause him problems. In his introduction, Obama wrote that he probably would not tell the story "must differently today than I did ten years ago, even if certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically, the grist for pundict commentary and opposition research."
ox News Battering Obama Over Book's Admissions
Reported by Judy - January 3, 2007 - 188 comments
The mainstream media finally got around to reading Barack Obama's 11-year-old autobiography which includes an admission of drug use as a teen-ager, so Fox News Wednesday (January 3, 2007) took the opportunity to go overboard and suggest Obama was a drug addict. Updated with video.
While portraying Obama in the most negative light possible, Fox News downplayed comparisons between Obama's candor over his youthful mistakes and allegations of cocaine use by George Bush.
The smearing of Obama started on "Fox and Friends First" with co-hosts Kiran Chetry, Steve Doocy, and Andrew Napolitano discussing the Washington Post article about the impact of the drug use admissions in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Just to make sure no one missed the point, Fox News displayed a banner that read, "Obama Cocaine Confession."
Chetry got off message, however, by noting that Obama admitted to cocaine use "as did our current president, who admited to cocaine use, correct?" After Doocy and Napolitano interrupted, Chetry backpedaled, saying, "Who was it that said they witnessed him doing cocaine?" Still not getting any support from her co-hosts, Chetry gave up and the trio went on to paint Obama in as negative a light as possible.
"We don't know that he did it once," Doocy said.
Then Doocy went on to suggest that Obama had tried to hide the book, claiming that, "something like only 20,000 copies exist, but somebody at the Washington Post found a copy, read it."
As the Post article points out, only 20,000 copies were printed when the book was first published, but the book was recently reissued, with a run of 800,000. So getting a copy is not all that hard. In fact, I uncovered one at Barnes and Noble last spring, read it, and reviewed it recently for News Hounds. Would you like my copy, Steve?
Fox News was just getting warmed up. In the next hour, on "Fox and Friends," Doocy and Napolitano reprised their discussion, this time with co-host Gretchen Carlson. Carlson did not make Chetry's mistake of trying to compare Bush and Obama. This time, everyone stayed on message, criticizing Democrats only, such as Bill Clinton, for marijuana use.
Napolitano went so far as to suggest that Obama had been a drug addict, saying voters will ask themselves, "Do we want somebody like that in the White House, who was addicted to drugs in his teen-aged years?" Doocy corrected him that it was unclear whether Obama was "addicted," but the damage was done.
Doocy himself then insisted that Obama was "kind of boasting" about not having used heroin, although it's not clear how Doocy would know that since he hasn't read the book.
While taking every opportunity to smear Obama, Doocy suggested that it really was Democrats who would be doing it, saying "remember it'll be on the Democratic side first." And Napolitano claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton's will take advantage saying, "So this is good news for Hillary."
And the three brought up the topic in another segment about presidential contenders in general, with Napolitano calling Obama, "Mr. Personality and no substance."
Missing from the Fox News discussion was the fact that Obama knew when the book was reissued that the incidents he discussed would cause him problems. In his introduction, Obama wrote that he probably would not tell the story "must differently today than I did ten years ago, even if certain passages have proven to be inconvenient politically, the grist for pundict commentary and opposition research."
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I hardly see how it is going to be a liability.
:rolleyes:
If I opened it now would you not understand?
~Edward
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That bit about Laura Bush selling dime bags?
That's AWESOME!
Someone find me that evidence.
As far as Bush vs. Obama,
i think it's going to be up for debate who the bigger coke head was. I don't get the "may or may not be true" comment, because these are not allegations, they are from Obama's own autobiography.
Now as far as either Bush or Obama Vs. Clinton?
There is not an eightballs chance in hell that either of them come close to the involvement with cocaine that Bill (and Hillary) Clinton had vis a vis the Mena Airport \ Iran Contra Scandal connection.
No way in hell.
Bill was fucking dirty rolling in that white nasty shit.
:mad:
If I opened it now would you not understand?
This comes from some reporters trying to vet his book. They reported Obama may have exaggerated his drug use because they couldn’t find anyone to corroborate it.
This is interesting, I haven't heard this yet. Could you please provide a link to this survey, it could help in some research I'm doing?
Every time I google it, I just get Nielsen ratings, which shows FNC dominating the other networks.
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/category/ratings/
I can't remember where I heard this, but I think Cindy even stole from the meds from an agency she worked for. Could be a slippery slope for McCain should he chose to go there.
Also, FOX news is just shit.
I'll take Obama's past over Hillary's, thanks.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Like I said in another thread, if you want dirty politics, use your imagination and put these words together.
Hillary...Iranian...women...swimming...and some kind of "dip". Must be some kind of dessert or something.
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
Oh this board will always have a good supply of fresh Obama, Hillary, McCain, Nader, Paul and Kucinich bashing. It's just depends on which flavor you like.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
An article from 14 months ago about a book from 8 years ago isn't what I would call "fresh"
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
I didn't say it was.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
It was documented in the Kittey Kelly book about the Bush family in 2004. She also killed someone in a car accident when she was 17 and reports apparently have her as being drunk when that happen. She's no saint!
Here's the book and there's some narrative on these matters on Amazon's page (although, it's disputable depending on which side you're on): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385503245
~Edward
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McCains wife was a pillhead. But she is not the candidate.
like any of it matters anyways at this point...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Still, it would be easy for Obama to say "I'm sure we all know someone who has struggled with drug use".
Not much of a need to say anything else, in my opinion.
okay I am convinced that you keep posting this babbling nothingness just to increase your post count.......
just start posting things that make sense please....
he had a choice to out himself or not HE WROTE THE FUCKING BOOK he chose to include that part of his life
As far as Bush doing it, who gives a crap? I hate Bush but people make mistakes, I know the president has to be held to a higher standard, but holding them accountable for something that happend 25 years ago, and not that major, is a bit much.
black babies like McCain has?
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln