Obama is trying to quit, but until he does, I have a problem with him lighting up.
The issue for me is that here is a guy while professes that we should respect the third world and its citizens, his smoking habit directly feeds the marketing and distribution engines of tobacco companies that have much if not most of the same Third World hooked. These companies are viciously aggressive in promoting their poison. Look at the billboards, and then see crowds with cancer sticks in their mouths.
The habits of our domestic smokers like Obama fatten the coffers of these tobacco companies. And then, these tobacco companies come right back and joust for position inside the mouths and lungs of Third Worlders.
Yeah. How can we expect Obama to stand up to the world’s dictators when he can’t even take a stand against the evil tobacco companies?
While Barack allegedly quit smoking back in February 2007, ABC News Correspondent Jake Tappersays he ran into the Illinois senator in August when he “reeked of cigarettes.” Obama did inhale! Obama even admitted he “fell off the wagon” on last night’s “Hardball.”
Never mind Obama’s lack of judgment when it comes to choosing friends. What about his complete lack of judgment when it comes to his own health?
There are, according to one poll, a surprising number of Americans who care whether their president smokes. In a 2007 poll conducted jointly by the Washington Post and ABC News, 21 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a given candidate for president solely because that candidate smoked.
Here’s {{{fair and balanced???}}} Fox News covering Obama’s dreadful smoking habit, (and a few other things):
But one Obommunist at Slate was able to put a happy face on Obama’s smoking:
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.
So the secret to Obama’s success, according to this woman is his smoking?
Obama uttered these immortal words in his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination:
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love.
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
Yowza. We were only kidding about the Messiah stuff.
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