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ACCC COMMENTS: The following article discusses Obama's history of drug use. Maybe all that marijuana is what makes him so passive and incompetent.
The Choom Gang: President Obama?s pot-smoking high school days detailed in Maraniss book. Posted by Natalie Jennings<!-- [h=1][/h] -->at 03:20 PM ET, 05/25/2012<!-- For AP News Registry -->TheWashingtonPost<!-- /For AP News Registry -->
"ABC?s Jonathan Karl reminds us Obama has previously written about his drug use:
?As a member of the Choom Gang,? Maraniss writes, ?Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.?
One of those was: ?Total Absorption? or ?TA?.
?TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton?s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,? explains Maraniss. If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, ?you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.?
One of Obama?s old friends at the school, Tom Topolinski, told Maraniss: ?Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.?
Obama helped popularized the concept of ?roof hits,? as well, writes Maraniss.
?When they were chooming in a 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.?
Maraniss also says Obama was known for his ?Interceptions?: ?When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ?Intercepted!,? and took an extra hit.?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...maraniss-book/2012/05/25/gJQAwFqEqU_blog.html
The Choom Gang: President Obama?s pot-smoking high school days detailed in Maraniss book. Posted by Natalie Jennings<!-- [h=1][/h] -->at 03:20 PM ET, 05/25/2012<!-- For AP News Registry -->TheWashingtonPost<!-- /For AP News Registry -->
"ABC?s Jonathan Karl reminds us Obama has previously written about his drug use:
In his 1995 memoir ?Dreams of My Father,? Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke ?in a white classmate?s sparkling new van,? he would smoke ?in the dorm room of some brother? and he would smoke ?on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.?
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.
Maraniss notes that Obama spent a lot of time at the Punahou School in Hawaii with a ?self-selected group of boys who loved basketball and good times and called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning ?to smoke marijuana.? ?As a member of the Choom Gang,? Maraniss writes, ?Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.?
One of those was: ?Total Absorption? or ?TA?.
?TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton?s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,? explains Maraniss. If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, ?you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.?
One of Obama?s old friends at the school, Tom Topolinski, told Maraniss: ?Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated.?
Obama helped popularized the concept of ?roof hits,? as well, writes Maraniss.
?When they were chooming in a 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.?
Maraniss also says Obama was known for his ?Interceptions?: ?When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ?Intercepted!,? and took an extra hit.?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...maraniss-book/2012/05/25/gJQAwFqEqU_blog.html
