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The Top Headlines About Barack Obama’s Pot-Smoking High School ‘Choom Gang’

The Top Headlines About Barack Obamas Pot Smoking High School Choom GangThe latest revelations from a forthcoming biography of President Barack Obama sent the media world into overdrive Friday over descriptions of high school Obama’s marijuana-loving “choom gang” — and elicited no shortage of pot-related puns.

Below, a short round-up of some of the best headlines to come from journalist David Maraniss’s book:

NPR: Inhale to the Chief: More Details of Obama’s Pot-Smoking Youth Revealed

“A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning ‘to smoke marijuana…’

“… As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called ‘TA,‘ short for ’total absorption.’ To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled.”

Time: Audacity of Dope: Tales of a Toking Teenage Obama

Obama and his friends drove around the lush Hawaii countryside, hot-boxing their VW bus and re-upping with a long-haired pizza-tossing dealer named Ray….We even learn about the Choom Gang’s lingo:

Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted, “Intercepted!,” and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.

Sydney Morning Herald: For Obama, dope came before hope

He also popularised ”roof hits” after smoking in cars with the windows closed: ”When the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.” Former members told Maraniss the gang’s favoured vehicle was a ”Volkswagen bus, also known as the Choomwagon”.

BuzzFeed: A User’s Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama

One of the favorite words in their subculture revealed their democratic nature. The word was veto. Whenever an idea was broached, someone could hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and indicate that the motion was not approved. They later shortened the process so that you could just shout “V” to get the point across. The the Choom Gang, all V’s were created equal.

The next two aren’t headlines, but worth including as well:

Yahoo! News: “Bill Clinton he was not.”

“When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang from marijuana, meaning “numbing tobacco”) instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. “‘Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated,’ explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.”

New York Post: “President Obama was once Hawaii’s pothead-in-chief”

Obama even thanked his bong buddies — and their dealer — in his high school yearbook: “Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”

Maraniss noted that, “A hippie drug-dealer made his [Obama’s] acknowledgments; his own mother did not.”

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  • Ben__Franklin
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:20pm

    If this was a Conservative they would be nailing him to the cross every day. Since its Obama the Liberal Media is controlling the narrative that its OK to smoke marijuana. They make light of Obama’s smoking as something cool and place cute little descriptions on his actions.

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:30pm

      There you go, just maybe this is a tactic to court the young vote again. Cool, “Commander On CHOOM” I have been sober for 11 years and my past has definitly affected my thinking. Many of my friends died young. I thank God everyday I do not live that way anymore. Pretty scary to have this man sooo close to the “FOOTBALL”

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    • HKS
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:48pm

      Tell all the kids, smoke dope and you could grow up to be POTUS. Is this a great country or what?

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:52pm

      Majority of americans now support de-criminilizing marijuana. In addition to the Republican party dying b/c of demographics – they are also taking stands on the wrong issues. You know the Republican party hates marijuana more than $16T debt because one requires actual sacrifices. For a long time, the Republican party has been a party of convenience

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:52pm

      Here is the marijuana stats…
      http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/record-high-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:54pm

      So he had made alot for interceptions but everything is about “Paying your FAIR Share” now. Wonder if he ever supplied the gang his fair share pot or was just a LEACH’ “Don’t Bogart That Joint” Barry !!!!

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    • Hiswill
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Your right. This will only get him more votes from the far left.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:01pm

      Seems like the Best Candidate… is one… alike a Virgin, with no Experience… alike an Atheist, with no Faith nor Morals… alike a Baby, cute and without a Record… and Stupid, with no Positions!

      Seems alike an Obama… during the last Election!

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    • skippy6
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:10pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvNqbTZYtCA
      This says it all….

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:15pm

      The “War on drugs” is actually un-Constitutional. The Constitution has nothing in it that states regulating vices. Alchohol prohibition required a Constitutional ammendment to make its ban legal.
      They had to overturn the ammendment when they stopped the ban.
      Not to mention the fact that the “War on drugs” isn’t working.
      How many of you like throwing non-violent crime offenders in jail and paying for:
      Their time in jail
      Rehibilitation after time in jail
      Wasted resources trying to find the non-violent crime offenders

      Also,
      The “war on drugs” only strenthens the drug cartels as it gives them a black market to make their $.
      Look to the effects of Alchohol prohibition. The crimes that took place when it was happening and the after effects once it was legalized. The Chicago thugs that were running the stuff almost went under and had to move to other illegal activities.
      End the war on drugs. I’m tired of paying for it.

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    • JGraham III
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:16pm

      Did anyone wonder what was being hidden when Obama refused to release his health records? I wondered with Clinton as well. Clinton always had a tell-tale red nose that suggested some sort of substance abuse, and now we have a history of it present in the current occupant of the White House. The more they stonewall routine reports such as a physical, the more the viscous rumors will continue to circulate. Whoever thinks habitual pot smoking has no long-term effects hasn’t delved too far into the history of users. It will be surpressed because there is too much money to be made selling it “legally”. Cha-ching! and never mind the dain bramage being done to the little people; after all they will be much easier to rule if they have destroyed their brain synapses.And here I thought Obama was Mr Brilliant; the smartest man to ‘occupy’ the White House in nearly a century. That would put him on a par with Woodrow Wilson…

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:24pm

      @JGraham III
      Where is the proof to your claims on brain damage?
      The U.S. has never allowed it to be properly tested. They don’t know what the effects on the brain/body are. There are actually studies in Europe showing increased brain cell activity.
      Show me where there has been one single death attributed to MJ. You can’t because in all the years the plant has been around; there isn’t a single death that has been attributed to MJ.
      Vices are vices and individuals will continue to do them. I’m just tired of paying for sending non-violent pot heads to prison while I watch the violence of the drug cartels getting worse and worse.

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    • deanied
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

      I totally agree! This is making me sick that the Main Street Media glorify this idiot!!

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Also,
      How is it not harmful for somebody to use “medical MJ” for a disease/cancer/whatever but it is harmful for a healthy person to smoke “non-medical MJ”?

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:49pm

      I thnk B.O. needs a drug test now.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:01pm

      The medis crowd must be playing golf on Berry.

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:01pm

      …tally up another 17 million votes for the president of cool…obama in a landslide ‘12

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:06pm

      @Hiswill
      “Your right. This will only get him more votes from the far left.”

      Perhaps we should call the far left the “far out” left.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:15pm

      Funny how people just look over my comments without an argument.
      Dispute them? Argue them? Somebody? Tell me it isn’t common sense…..
      Oh that’s right. ignore and it will go away just like Romneys un-Constitutional policies.
      I’m starting to see that Blazers are just as blind by their party (R) as the libs are their (D).

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 3:13pm

      Cricket……………………………Cricket…………….

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 3:18pm

      @wakingsheep…folks can no longer argue about the “war on drugs” or the ridiculous “war on pot”. libertarians know it is wrong to spend federal dollars to battle pot smokers…i mean borrow billions. the argument dies when the “C” word conflicts these darn hard right wingers. (constitution)…

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:36pm

      I fault the Stoner-In-Chief not for being a “Choomer” but for being a hypocrite
      .
      And I am sad to see that his “interceptor” skills have moved from stealing hits on joints to the stealing the wealth, prosperity and security of our country.

      I have never been pro-pot, but lately I am questioning the anti-pot motivations in this country.
      Google “endogenous cannabinoids” think about their role in natural biologic synaptic interactions.

      And I find it curious that the federal government went into “refer madness” mode and started a large enforcement effort and program not long after the need to run down bootleggers went away.

      Then check this out..
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/legal-marijuana-smokers-pot-us-government_n_985030.html

      ( Elvy looks pretty happy for a sick, old person here.)

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:42pm

      COOOOOL !! we have a Pot Smokin’ ROCK STAR in the WH….

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:50pm

      All makes sense now, He is unable to make Command Decisions..
      He has been known to be a little slow on the uptake…HMMMM ??

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:57pm

      (Spelling). “reefer madness” of course.

      And this is an interesting take for anyone who thinks there might be a hidden agenda in some of the things that government does.

      http://washington-drug-defense.com/REEFER_MADNESS

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    • IMAWAKENOW
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:48pm

      @walkingsheep
      Look to the effects of Alchohol prohibition. The crimes that took place when it was happening and the after effects once it was legalized. The Chicago thugs that were running the stuff almost went under and had to move to other illegal activities.,,,,, Like drugs. So lets just legalize pot to put the dealers out of business, that won’t work they will just move on to another “harder” drug.
      by your logic we just make everything legal and we won’t have to spend any money on prisons at all. WOW, I never would have thought of that.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:51pm

      So the dope smoked dope and is now the dope in chief? God save us from dopey.

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    • SCARY313568
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:55pm

      Yup…..Ben you hit that one on the nail. Could you imagine the backlash a conservative would be getting from this. This pot toking pic would be on the headline of every newspaper and broadcast across MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etccc……..The libs would be screaming the pesident is a junkie and its affected his judgement. How ironic that in this case they would be right but fail to accept the facts. THe college aged a-holes, who have no grasp about life, will be thinking how cool he is possibly affecting their vote. This is nothing but positive press for Obummer with our propoganda media running the show.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 6:42pm

      Frank Zappa
      Cocaine Decisions lyrics
      Chop a line now. . .
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      You are a person with a snow-job
      You got a fancy gotta go job
      Where the cocaine decision that you make today
      Will mean that millions somewhere else
      Will do it your way
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      You are a person who is high class
      You are a person not in my class
      And the cocaine decision that you make today
      Will mean nothing later on
      When you get nose decay
      I don’t wanna know
      ‘Bout the things that you pull
      Outta your nose
      Or where they goes
      But if you are wasted
      From the stuff you‘re stickin’ in it
      I get madder every day
      ‘Cause what you do ’n’ what you say
      Affects my life in such a way
      I learn to hate it every minute!
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      You are a doctor or a lawyer
      You got an office with a foyer
      And the cocaine decisions that you make today
      Will not be discovered till it‘s over ’n’ done
      By the customers you hold at bay
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      You are a movie business guy
      You got accountants who supply
      The necessary figures
      To determine when you fly
      To Acapulco
      Where all your friends go
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      We must watch the stuff you make
      You have let us eat the cake
      While your accountants tell you Yes Yes Yes
      You make EXPENSIVE UGLINESS
      (How do you do it? – let me guess . . .)
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      Cocaine decisions . . .
      Cocaine decisions . . .

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    • fair2light
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 7:03pm

      Ben I have a creepy thought. What if the Obama people allowed this to get’out seeing it will appeal to the college type voters. While the lib media down plays it to the non pot smokers. I know I am being suspicious but this stinks to political high heaven.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 7:21pm

      Just a punk. Was always a punk. Is still a punk. I don’t care where he was born. He did NOT grow up in America. He is the results of being brainwashed by sicko Commie Anti-Americans.

      WELL, AMERICA, Obama tricked and conned you once. How’s that working out? He is going to lie about every single fact. He‘s actually going to try to tell you that he’s lowered costs; that he’s solved Health Care; that he’s created MILLIONS and MILLIONS of jobs.

      I still don’t know how he got accepted into any decent college…except..maybe they are NOT decent. He is everything I would not want a son to be, of any color. Thank God we found him out.

      This is not even about IDEOLOGY anymore. THIS IS THE long expected GOOD v. evil. GOD and GOOD WIN, but it’s sure annoying to watch, isn’t it? Get busy locally. Make sure PATRIOTS get to the polls. This guy doesn’t deserve to be anywhere near the WH or in any office. Divisive, corrupt, low life, no character bum. Didn‘t he seem like he was on drugs that first ’interview’ from the WH after he got in? Remember him giggling like a girl ? If we get him out, we’ll have dodged a big bullet.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 10:26pm

      The chances that Obama is still using something legal or illegal are very good. People who have a mind set such as his is very lacking in normalcy and understanding. Something is definitely wrong and this man should be drug tested at least every three weeks. This man should have those doing this testing who will not cover up for him. This man is a definite danger to this country.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 2:09am

      Obum never uses his brain. So what does he have to lose? A few days ago he was speaking without a teleprompter, and his earpiece fell out. You should have seen the look that came over his face. He quickly stuck it back in his ear, and I could almost read his mind: “Sh*t, I just missed what I had to say next!”

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    • Pouncing Porcupine
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 2:42am

      @Patty

      Two words: Affirmative Action.

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    • Quack Addict
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 3:05am

      This is why Trayvon Martin could be his son. Makes sense now.

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    • Jive Mickey
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 7:07am

      This ‘shocking revelation’ will only serve to boost Obama’s ratings in the polls.
      Pay no attention to his record or policies while in Congress or as President.

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    • hypnos
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 9:54am

      Ok rationalize his pot smoking how about his cocaine use? Rationalize that.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:32am

      How exactly does someone – who by his own admission – stayed drunk and stoned for his junior and senior years of high school, rarely if ever went to class – graduate high school – let alone get into Occidental College?

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 1:44pm

      Ben, I read the outrage about Mitts HS days of
      brutalizing a boy with long hair, I thought stories about
      HS don’t matter? Hyprocritical, a lil bit? Obama
      admitted his drug use a long time ago. Glenn is
      an admitted alcoholic n abused cocaine. He can be
      forgiven but not Barry. Wish I lived in y’all world

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 5:35pm

      @We are Americans
      Obama admitted his drug use a long time ago. Glenn is
      an admitted alcoholic n abused cocaine. He can be
      forgiven but not Barry.
      —-
      Yeah, NOT, because Barry is proud of it; he and his state media make it to be something worth emulating by our youth: “Messiah Obama, the Great Druggie.” Obama is a shameless lowlife.

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    • TX_BOI
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 8:05pm

      Yet when Ron Paul says legalize it, he is thought of as a….. wait a minute, he gets no press. The media does not to recognize him. ….. IMO, you will see Obama maybe try to legalize marijuana to spin away from this and steal the younger (entitled youth syndrome zombies) votes… just saying.

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    • cykonas
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:03pm

      To quite a few in this thread who have expressed the opinion that this is somehow going to give the President a huge new pool of young folks that are going to vote for him, I would like to add these two comments.

      First, the younger age groups already overwhelmingly voted for him last time so there is no new pickup of voters. Second, as a percent of their total count they don’t vote anyway.

      Let them stay stoned and happy and most importantly let them stay home on November 6th. Peace.

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    • Thomas
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 11:50pm

      Is this another picture from Obama’s College years? lol

      http://www.owensworld.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Fullsize/pictures/face_ache.jpg

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:03pm

      SURE explains a LOT re his graduation to COKE etc. No wonder this DUFUS can’t count. Think he can?? Look at his NO budget numbers. He THINKS he is doing GREAT, in not increasing the debt ,% wise, as fast as predecessors. What a waste of SKIN. TRULY a Democrat. NONE can count, except deposits in their private accounst in the Caymans etc.!

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:16pm

    Tex: I had rather my kids played with Mitt than Obbie when they were young any day of the week, except they would be going to a Baptist church. Mormons are note for cleaner living that those nasty chrooom bunch people.

    This man is running our country on a toxic brain. He may or not (I would guess he is) doing something now. Obama does not make sense. There needs to be reform in some areas, but not based upon a dope gang’s idea of Socialism. Get those people out of our WH. He is toxic.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:33pm

      Who you going to follow into battle the stoner who has to burn one before he can make a decision or the guy who’s thinking is unobstructed by chemical influence who can make a split second decision with reasoning.
      And for the dope heads out there I hope the stoners at GM are designing and building the braking systems on your car.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:16pm

    This didn’t work last time, what makes you think it going to work this time?

    “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

    More proof that the GOP will destroy itself in 12. But don’t worry we will rebuild it with real Conservatives this “Time”.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:22pm

      I knew the whole time you weren’t a republican. Hence the reason you were so scared of Ron Paul going against your savior Obama.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:23pm

      You only wish. The Dems/Progressives are destroying themselves.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:33pm

      Joining today and posting your liberal BS everywhere seems pretty insane to me, especially since the only thing that it will accomplish is showing how pathetically easy it is to brainwash libs. Carry on.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:40pm

      WakingSheep
      You need to read the name closer. LOL

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:44pm

      Thats right time2 – i knew you would come around eventually

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Bob_R_OathKeeper

      What post is liberal? Did I post something untrue? Did the GOP not try this in 2008? Maybe we should talk about Wright, Ayers, Birth, etc. If you don’t want to hear the truth, just keep your head up your @ss. Word of advice tho, keep your mouth shut.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:57pm

      So are you saying your not Time _2_End_Ron Paul_Blah blah blah?

      Gimme a break

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:00pm

      If you aren’t the other Time_2;
      I bet your still scared of RP.

      For freedom!
      Ron Paul 2012!

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:12pm

      either way – its fun to pretend bizarro Time2 has changed his mind

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:04pm

      SOY. How’s that “pretending” to get Ron Paul elected thing working out for you guys? Think of all that money he wasted yet again for his narcissistic endeavors? But don‘t say ya’ll weren’t warned that a fool and his money are soon parted. I call it… wasteful spending…

      Now granted, I did throw some money at Rick Santorum’s campaign… but hey, that’s just the well-rounded Conservative in me… lol.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:12pm

      Dang auto correct.
      Time_2_quit not quite

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:21pm

      Ron Paul doubled and quadrupled his votes from 2008. Very very nice

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:46pm

      SOY. I think that just proves that MORE fools and their money were soon parted. Can’t deny the fools that our education system is pumping out these days at all levels. I wish for days of old when an education actually mean’t something and produced a higher caliber young person than what we seem to have today. Educated doesn’t always mean smarter as is proven daily by Obama, Paul, other fringers and their supporters…

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:54pm

      But you support somebody else other the RP?
      He is the one talking about getting rid of the department of education and putting it back in the states hands.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:58pm

      The biggest story of the primary election is being ignored by the MSM. Paul WILL win the nomination on the first round in Tampa.

      42 USC 1971 – Sec. 1971. Voting rights
      …
      (b) Intimidation, threats, or coercion No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, or Member of the House of Representatives, Delegates or Commissioners from the Territories or possessions, at any general, special, or primary election held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting or electing any such candidate.

      This means that delegates cannot be bound to vote for any candidate for the nomination for President, Vice President, etc….

      Rule 38 adheres to this Federal Law. There WILL be over 1144 Paul supporters as delegates at the convention and they will ALL vote for Paul on the first round. Federal law trumps any state law.

      Ron Paul 2012!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_GOP_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 3:20pm

      TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Sorry to inform you but your Generation will be no where to be found in the history books. Before you there was be the Greatest Generation and then there will be this Generation that had to fight and pay for their country back. Your Generation has done nothing but spend us into a 15 trillion dollar debt and vote our freedoms and liberties away. Thank you for all you have done to enslave your fellow countrymen and women. Maybe its that your Generation just doesn’t want to admit you have been fooled.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 3:36pm

      Time_2_End_The_Paul_Campaign, You are not very good at your job. Paul IS going to win the nomination on the first round! Does that not just make your blood boil? Rule 38 and now 42 USC 1971 – Sec. 1971. Voting rights.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:15pm

      LEFTCOAST. Good Morning! You finally got up! Hard night there in San Fran? You didn’t see John Travolta in any of those bath houses? Lol. I kid you of course!?!?!?

      I will be the last line of defense against against the Paul supporter onslaught in Tampa if I have to. Me against how many Paul acolytes? Whatever the number, I like the odds!!

      You threatened me with bodily harm a month ago because you finally realized I was more than just a tad smarter than your 54 years because one: I of course am your smarter and more experienced elder, and two: I am your better. Plus… I eat wheaties, the breakfast of champions instead of your fruity pebbles, the breakfast of LEFTCOAST liberals. Or is it granola that you eat… can’t remember. And… I wear manly steel tipped shoes and not birkenstocks, also the choice of the LEFTCOAST Liberal.

      Anyways, where were you? Oh, you threatened me a month ago and I’ve been in steady training since. You said something about your friend or neighbor teaching you Jackie Chan moves like replacing someone’s drink with a V8 vegatable drink like in the commercial… IT’S A VEGGIE MORNING and that scared me to no end. So I went and took some Martial Art classes. Hey, and this guy Martial… he taught me both Charcoal AND oil painting in under 3 weeks!!

      I think you’re getting the drift by now LEFT… you are not to be taken seriously any longer…

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:02pm

      No Time, I do not think I threatened you, I think I did respond in a cluster of posts between you, and I think, Jefferson, if I remember correctly. Granted, I am fairly good at Tae Kwon Do, Akido, and I did take some Chuck Norris Karate lessons for about a year while I was stationed in Norfolk, VA. I have not been in an actual fight in over 30 years, although I do stay in shape and practice daily.

      By the way, I have never been to San Francisco in my life, but would not mind driving down through the Redwoods to go and look it over with my wife. I live up in Oregon, and am sitting here looking out across the ocean from my master bedroom as I respond to your ridiculousness. I am thinking that you will actually not be in Tampa, I do not think you have the ambition to get off the couch and stop watching the MSM.

      I bet you are crapping your pants knowing we have a federal law that will back us in Tampa. You ARE researching the true delegate counts , like Romney only having 496 instead of the media’s count of 1084, aren’t you? You do know that out of the 496, that Paul supporters make up about 160-165 of those , right? This IS what is happening. We are stealthy in some situations and have to just say we are for anyone but Romney (trying to sound more like you) in order to get the spots we need. But all is fair in love and war, huh? I have been telling you for quite some time about what was going to take place, but you cannot see the forest for the trees. You are losing.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 8:10pm

      Sorry, I said anyone but Romney, but meant your sying; anyone but Obama, but they are so much the same, it has the same meaning.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 9:53pm

      LEFTCOAST. Lol. You’re certainly a card. A Joker maybe? Regarding Norfolk… I lived in Va Beach before moving here to the Tampa area. Did some gub’ment contract work there at most all the bases in the Hampton Roads area a couple years back… Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Little Creek Naval etc….

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 3:18pm

      Time_2, Yes I am a card, I do this on The Blaze for fun. So you did some gub’ment work did ya? No wonder you do not want government slashed to pieces. You like getting those big wages from the taxpayer. You are a on the government dole or have been. Very Telling Time.

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  • Jake Wilde
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:16pm

    Look guys…..none of this should surprise any of you. We have Anita Dunn giving her famous Mao Tse Tung emulation and desecration of Mother Teresa‘s memory while she’s coked up. I’ve had friends on it and not one person living can convince me she did NOT do blow before this speech. Look at her mouth and her quirks, she is not normally like that. Compare it to other footage.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1zg2NOCn8&feature=related

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    • IlovemyAkita
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:35pm

      I agree. She is doped on something.

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    • maizy
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:53pm

      I cannot look at other footage of her, I would get sick, she is one unattractive lib but that footage was so funny as were the comments that were posted beneath it. I like the one that she’s like a dog licking peanut butter (though my 2 Goldens are much prettier, they do do that with their tongues when I give them their heartworm pill coated with peanut butter). It’s actually not funny, she’ reprehensible and a disgrace, as is “chooming” Obama.

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  • klevalt
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:11pm

    You know, I was a pot-smoker, and I know that is why my memory is terrible today… 35 years later…. We can assume that the amount of weed did have long term effects. What they are? Your guess is as good as mine…. But one thing is sure, if he had been busted for any aspect of his drug use back then, he would not have been eligible to be POTUS… just POS

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Depends upon how the Records are kept… by whom… and what is the Power behind the “Kenyan Kandidate”!

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Pot has different effects for different people when it comes to short term/long term memory loss.
      The U.S. has never conducted a full study as to the effects of MJ on the human brain. They actually won’t let any studies even take place here. There are studies in Europe that have actually shown increased brain cell function/growth in the brain after smoking.
      The U.S. illegalized it over the fact that they couldn’t control its growth. They didn’t illegalize it due to the harm. To date there is actually not a single death that has been attributed to MJ.
      Also, the “War on drugs” is actually un-Constitutional. The Constitution has nothing in it that states regulating vices. Alchohol prohibition required a Constitutional ammendment to make its ban legal.
      They had to overturn the ammendment when they stopped the ban.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 4:53pm

      @ WakingSheep
      You are saying there were no deaths related to pot use ?
      If so you are a idiot get out of the fog and look around.
      Pot use has longterm effects on critical thinking that can cloud judgement for up to seven years after use.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:39pm

      @MAMMY_NUNN
      Not one! Look it up! You can go through all the medical books there are; not one.
      Now there have been deaths attributed to other drugs while MJ was in the system but not one directly attributed to MJ.
      That’s right Mammy not one.
      Where did you find the research showing that 7 year number?
      I am no idiot. I know how to research before I make an argument. What does that make you?

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:49pm

      @MAMMY_NUNN
      Also,
      Was this country setup on majority rule? NO.
      That is exactly what the Constitution was setup for. So no one person/party would RULE over the rest.
      We wanted out of a Monarchy which is why the revolution. Who are you to tell anybody what they can and cannot consume? It would be none of your business whether I drank a gallon of gasoline.
      If that is my choice; it is my choice and not yours or anybody else.
      Freedom across the board and not picking and choosing freedoms as they fit majority rule.
      The Constitution is the beacon of freedom and vices are Constitutionally protected. The individual can make up their own mind on what they choose to eat or not eat; smoke or not smoke; buy or not buy.
      Get it?
      The “war on drugs” is un-Constitutional in the first place. Why do you think it took a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol? Then when they wanted to stop prohibition due to the crime/black market; they had to remove the amendment.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 6:47pm

      How can you even say that the courts a filled with cases where crimes have been committed under the influence take Trayvon for instance and you are going to say it did not contribute to his death.

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    • We are Americans
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 1:57pm

      George Wahington’s top crop was hemp,
      grows naturally, stronger fiber than cotton.
      Amazing plant. Shame it’s illegal 2 grow something
      that grows naturally in nature.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 4:24pm

      Most drugs are legal just as chemicals in the home but when there abused that they become illegal.
      I despise showing ID for cold medicine but I understand there are idiots out there who want it for unintended uses.

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  • Arc
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:05pm

    I can just see Cheech Marin doing a take-off on being responsible for the RED PHONE( Football ) while high.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:18pm

      Now, everyone, sing… ‘Choom By Ya my lord’…

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  • seeker9
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Oh, if you “intercept” it is “fair” and gives everyone an equal shot. (Simillar to his idea of taxation.)

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  • ADNIL
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Is this for real? I guess my parents were right. ANYBODY can grow up to be president. Too bad for us. I never thought this is what they meant.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Yes .. considering DOPE has two meanings .. seems he fits into both.

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  • Dakotagal
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:03pm

    I’m sick of it … sick, sick, sick! This loser needs to be run out of our White House, the whole place disinfected, and get some adults back in charge. Now that is what would be cool!

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:16pm

      You wake the Village… I’ll start lighting the Torches!

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  • lukerw
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:00pm

    This is not Barry; It is… his Twin… the “Kenyan Kandidate”!

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  • freedomisasfreedomdoes
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:00pm

    Don’t really care if he smoked pot in high school. The ONLY thing that should be made from this, is that people do stuff in high school and at a young age. Like Romney and the ridiculous bully account. We all do things we regret in high school and hope by adulthood we learn from them.

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  • squeegeeman
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:58am

    some things never change

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:57am

    The man is still on something, no doubt! Book em Danno!!

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  • potica69
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:54am

    Now we know the true identity of that “reefer man”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ

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  • getourcountryback
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:53am

    Such a great person to have in the highest office in the land and the leader of the free world. What a piece of trash this common hood is. This is the Peter Principle in it’s full blown glory folks.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:52am

    Being cool with pot isnt enough this time.

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  • cdavis411
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:48am

    StuperFLY

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  • KeystoneState
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:46am

    I’m sure Barry was still smoking grass in 1988, I wonder if he voted for Ron Paul that year?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:59am

      I care more about… the Mental Condition.. of the guy… with one hand on my Wallet… and other on my Neck!

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    • ambrosia
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:40pm

      That fetchin’ photo of him screams PIMP all over it…Puff Daddio’bama.
      NOTHING would surprise me about this creep.

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:41am

    Libertarians and Obama can agree on one thing (well, actually more but…)…

    …marijuana-loving “choom gang” for a start…

    And making Gary Johnson the Pot-Head-in-Chief who spoke about the “joys” of smoking marijuana…

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:47pm

      yea marijuana is too dangerous. It’s better to have drunks around every corner right?

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:06pm

      SOY. I have zero patience and tolerance for drunks let alone paranoid, delusional, lazy and brain dead pot heads… but hey, that’s just me I guess eh?

      If you have to put a thief in your mouth to steal your brains… stay outa’ my way… or you will get your intoxicated/mind-altered tuckus’s kicked to the curb where they belong.

      The alcohol argument never works on me as I see drunks and druggies in the same light…

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Just wanted to make sure you are consistent. Republicans should be trying to make alcohol illegal as well….Otherwise they are just HYPOCRITES

      If you think both should be illegal – then kudos for being honest with yourself

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:19pm

      Common sense:
      Vices have been around since the dawn of time and the powers that be have never been able to get rid of them.
      The individual likes vices so I say let them have them. How does a drunk/pot head/prostitute affect me in my daily life? It doesn’t. Unless they get behind the wheel but that is a different argument.
      Has the DUI laws made drunk driving disappear? No.
      Has seatbelt laws made people drive with their seatbelts? No.
      End the “War on drugs”. I‘m tire of paying for BS that doesn’t affect me.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:43pm

      SHEEP. Give it up. It’s a proven fact that lame, lazy, and reality avoiding pot heads and other drug addled nimrods will write anything, say anything or do anything to advance “the cause” and rationalize drug usage. Even if it means pushing for Paul…

      Oh that’s right… nobody here pushing for Paul smokes dope. They just want Liberal America to be even more chaotic than it already is… for liberty and freedom sake.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 1:50pm

      Time2

      i dont smoke or drink – what do you mean?

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Good job refuting anything I said.
      I don’t smoke or drink. Smoked and drank a little in high school but nothing after that.
      I’m not saying I want them to be legal for my usage. I‘m saying make it legal because you can’t get rid of vices. Never have, Never will.
      I‘m also saying I’m tired of paying for “lame, lazy, and reality avoiding pot heads and other drug addled nimrods” to be sent to prison over something that doesn’t affect me.
      BTW,
      George Washington smoked. Was he lame, lazy and reality avoiding? I think not.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:18pm

      SOY, guess I’ll have to take you at your word… same as the rest of the pot pushers for Obama, Paul and Johnson…

      I only read one Paul pusher gleefully admit to smoking dope. He’s no longer here. Must have self-admitted himself somewhere with no internet service. What was his screen name?? I think it was WAKE-UP? I used to tell him to go sleep it off and come back with a clear head. The rest of the pushers must be just looking out for their OWS/Liberal bretheren I guess…

      Tell me a guy who craps on a Police car is a clear thinker and in his right mind, and I’ll show you a guy who votes for Ron Paul and is willing to help get him there for the pure freedom and liberty of it.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Wow,
      You would have fit right in with Saddam, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, etc.
      You know what’s best for people. You make up peoples minds for them. What you say goes.
      No Constitution. You are a true mastermind like Obama, Bush, McCain, Romney.
      Utopia in your terms and not the individuals huh……….
      You are so smart I think I would like for you to create a diet for me to follow. All knowing time 2

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 5:40pm

      SHEEP. Ohhh stop your whining and get me a cup of hot joe! Black coffee with no fairy dust. Then I have some errands for you to run. And get some pep in your step pot head!

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 4:51am

      @WakingSheep
      BTW, George Washington smoked.
      ——
      Pure conjecture. You are putting weed in his mouth (pun intended). The dope crowd loves to inject its own interpretation of reality into his comments about hemp. Did Washington ever actually SAY that he smoked pot?

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  • copatriots
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:41am

    And is it me or does everyone seem to forget that it was/is ILLEGAL to “choom” and was most certainly not commonly accepted in the 70′s as it is today?

    Also, why is this making news even in the liberal rags? Is 0 trying to gain Paul’s marijuana supporters?

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:32pm

      Good assesment CoPatriots,thats exactly what he is up to.Every thing these snakes do is well thought out.I believe pot smokers should have thier rights to enjoy thier choice of stimulant.I just hope they would not base thier vote on weather or not pot will be legalized.That would be insane.

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  • HKS
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:40am

    Wow, pot heads running the country and people wonder why “were screwed”.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Amen to that .. and don’t forget .. he did harder drugs also .. according to … HIMSELF.

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  • lawrench
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:36am

    It is all starting to make sense now. This is why we have such strange comments from the POTUS. He really cannot tell reality from his high, or should I say his TA.

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  • scdave
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:34am

    Mitt drank a coke that was not caffeine free when he was 16 this needs to be reported, now.

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    • texasbeta
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:46am

      Actually, since we are on weirdness….Mitt thinks God lives on a planet called Kolob, that he will inherit a planet “like Jesus”, and wears magical underwear to protect him from “demons.” You people are voting for a guy who, if he was a kid, you wouldn’t let your children play with.

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    • HKS
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:49am

      my kids could.

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    • SharpeWit
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 2:59pm

      The underwear thing is true. They are never not in contact with them, not even in the shower. a bit wierd, but the Catholics have different strokes too.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 27, 2012 at 10:49am

      Beta
      Vote for a pot head dog eater and sign your checks over to the IRS. Kudos. Great argument. Do you enjoy bbq or ranch on your puppy nuggets?

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  • copatriots
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:30am

    Is it so cool to have a burn-out for a Prez? 20 years is all it took to go from “I didn’t inhale“ to a complete waste for who ”chooming” was just the start of his drug use.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on May 26, 2012 at 11:30am

    Being a pot head might explain a lot…

    ALWAYS PROUD OF THE USA OF AMERICA
    GOP2012

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 26, 2012 at 12:19pm

      I do think we need to DRUG TEST him .. he works for us .. any employer I have had can drug test you at any time. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we can’t see his medical records?

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