Obama’s high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book

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Obama’s high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book

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Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out of turn.

Best-selling author David Maraniss' "Barack Obama: The Story" describes the future president's teenage antics, notably his copious marijuana smoking, details of which were published early Friday by Buzzfeed. While the book won't be released until June 19, vast sections of it were already available Friday on Google Books.



Starting on page 293, the reader begins to get the dope on high school-age Obama's group of basketball- and fun-loving buds, who dubbed themselves the "Choom Gang," from 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," writes Maraniss, author of a biography of the 42nd president.

"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."
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We elected someone that smoked a lot of pot as a teen! :eusa_boohoo:
 
At least he didn't get 5 young men to hold down a student so he could assault him because he didn't "approve" of the way the kid looked. Imagine if Mitt tried to attack one, shy kid by himself and got his ass whupped? Do you think he would "remember" it? Mitt's a pussy.
 
At least he didn't get 5 young men to hold down a student so he could assault him because he didn't "approve" of the way the kid looked. Imagine if Mitt tried to attack one, shy kid by himself and got his ass whupped? Do you think he would "remember" it? Mitt's a pussy.

Well Obama got somebody killed. Do you know of anybody Mitt killed in his life-time?
 
At least he didn't get 5 young men to hold down a student so he could assault him because he didn't "approve" of the way the kid looked. Imagine if Mitt tried to attack one, shy kid by himself and got his ass whupped? Do you think he would "remember" it? Mitt's a pussy.

Well Obama got somebody killed. Do you know of anybody Mitt killed in his life-time?

Who did Obama get killed?

I'm almost afraid to listen to this answer, who knows what kind of crazy stuff we are going to hear.

The one downside to Obama getting re-elected is how crazy these folks will get for the next four years.
 
Personally, I think the country would be better off if Obama just sat around all day smoking pot and doing nothing.
 
At least he didn't get 5 young men to hold down a student so he could assault him because he didn't "approve" of the way the kid looked. Imagine if Mitt tried to attack one, shy kid by himself and got his ass whupped? Do you think he would "remember" it? Mitt's a pussy.

Well Obama got somebody killed. Do you know of anybody Mitt killed in his life-time?

Who did Obama get killed?

I'm almost afraid to listen to this answer, who knows what kind of crazy stuff we are going to hear.

The one downside to Obama getting re-elected is how crazy these folks will get for the next four years.

Obama got more than one killed.
Obama got Bin Laden killed after Republicans let him go.
Obama got Moammar Gadhafi killed without the loss of single American life.

Bush and the Republicans got Saddam killed. At the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of American maimed for life and the cost of many trillions of dollars.

What's the difference?

Saddam never attacked the United States.
 
Personally, I think the country would be better off if Obama just sat around all day smoking pot and doing nothing.

Because then, the auto industry would be gone and Bin Laden would still be alive along with most of al Qaeda. And Republicans think it is they who are "patriotic". Odd that.
 
At least he didn't get 5 young men to hold down a student so he could assault him because he didn't "approve" of the way the kid looked. Imagine if Mitt tried to attack one, shy kid by himself and got his ass whupped? Do you think he would "remember" it? Mitt's a pussy.

Well Obama got somebody killed. Do you know of anybody Mitt killed in his life-time?

Who did Obama get killed?

I'm almost afraid to listen to this answer, who knows what kind of crazy stuff we are going to hear.

The one downside to Obama getting re-elected is how crazy these folks will get for the next four years.

Look into his new ROEs. I've been hearing about them for years.

And he turned our troops over to UN commands......something Congress prevented Clinton from doing when I was in Somalia.

His Koran burning fiasco has increased, not decreased attacks on our troops. Apologizing rather than handling it correctly from the outset would have prevented it from being a problem. Turning over the defaced Korans to locals would have ended it. He's covering up the ever-increasing numbers of attacks on our troops. We bury two of them a week here at Ft Campbell alone, not to mention Ft Bragg and all of the other posts that have casualties.
 
Personally, I think the country would be better off if Obama just sat around all day smoking pot and doing nothing.

Because then, the auto industry would be gone and Bin Laden would still be alive along with most of al Qaeda. And Republicans think it is they who are "patriotic". Odd that.


Wrong, bub.

The Auto Industry would be fine. Inefficient companies would have been acquired by better managed ones. Bin Laden would be dead, because EVEN JIMMY CARTER would have ordered that hit.

Your last sentence is an admission of intellectual bankruptcy - and you forgot to call me a racist.
 
I thought he smoked it?
 
[Doing justice to 'Bam's high school experience. Imagine a president of the United States bent over backwards inhaling the last vestiges of marijuana smoke from inside the roof of the Presidential Limo]

"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.

Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of "roof hits": when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.

When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for 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.

[Choom Gang member] Mark Bendix's Volkswagen bus, also known as the Choomwagon. … The other members considered Mark Bendix the glue, he was funny, creative, and uninhibited, with a penchant for Marvel Comics. He also had that VW bus and a house with a pool, a bong, and a Nerf basketball, all enticements for them to slip off midday for a few unauthorized hours of recreation...

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."

A User's Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama
 
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Obama’s high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book

.

Obama

Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out of turn.

Best-selling author David Maraniss' "Barack Obama: The Story" describes the future president's teenage antics, notably his copious marijuana smoking, details of which were published early Friday by Buzzfeed. While the book won't be released until June 19, vast sections of it were already available Friday on Google Books.



Starting on page 293, the reader begins to get the dope on high school-age Obama's group of basketball- and fun-loving buds, who dubbed themselves the "Choom Gang," from 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," writes Maraniss, author of a biography of the 42nd president.

"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."
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We elected someone that smoked a lot of pot as a teen! :eusa_boohoo:

Good! Glad he didn't waste it!
 
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Obama’s high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book

.

Obama

Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out of turn.

Best-selling author David Maraniss' "Barack Obama: The Story" describes the future president's teenage antics, notably his copious marijuana smoking, details of which were published early Friday by Buzzfeed. While the book won't be released until June 19, vast sections of it were already available Friday on Google Books.



Starting on page 293, the reader begins to get the dope on high school-age Obama's group of basketball- and fun-loving buds, who dubbed themselves the "Choom Gang," from 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," writes Maraniss, author of a biography of the 42nd president.

"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."
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We elected someone that smoked a lot of pot as a teen! :eusa_boohoo:
So the fuck what?
 
If obamabots are so proud of his getting Bin Laden killed, they are equally proud of obama turning in the doctor that helped get that intelligence turned over to the Pakistanis. Or is this just obama's way of making sure no one talks?
 

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