Bottom line, he’s weak, everything is a lie if he can be in such denial as to let him think it’s okay to tote a cancer stick on occasion. What a horrid example this woulkd be for the youth of America!!!

Hey Chris Cottam

Shut the hell up. Smokers are people too, you Nazi. Just because someone “totes a cancer stick” doesn’t mean they’re “weak” but what “woulkd” you know about that…

Chris Cottam

The vote of your ignorance is up to two now. How in the hell can u say that a quitting smoker is a bad example to America’s youth… If you may have forgotten, smoking is still legal.. lying(WMD) isn’t!

If Obama smokes, he should not be our president. Something killing thousands, maybe millions every day needs to be taken seriously and if he is to busy smoking, everyone else will to! I’m voting for Hillary unless he pulls himself together and quits for good!

I see nobody is mentioning Clinton and his cigars. Whats the difference?

If the worst thing this man does is smoke .. then he’s a good person. Anti smokers need to examine at their own lives before they refer to “sin sticks” or any other sins. I haven’t seen Obama attacking another person with such hate and venom.. Throw your rocks and show me any perfect human without sin or weakness. Lying, adultrty, alcohol abuse, and scandal are the backbone of American politics. Whats smoking compared to this ? A bad example? oh yeah sure . Its not good but such a minor thing when we look at the entire political picture.

if obama has in fact quit smoking, i would vote for him. if he lights up again, i don’t know. as has been said before, a smoking president would set a terrible example for young americans. if he is committed to staying clean, then he should be okay.

I THINK ITS A JOKE THAT SOMEONE IS STUPID ENOUGH TO BASE THEIR DECISION TO VOTE OR NOT VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT BASED ON WHETHER HE SMOKES OR NOT, FORGET THE FACT HES MUSLIM. A RADICAL HE WONT SALUTE THE FLAG AND WOULDNT BE SWORN INTO OFFICE BY THE HOLY BIBLE BUT MY THE KARAN ,.,NONE OF THATS IMPORTANT? AND WASNT SWORN IN BY HIS REAL NAME BUT HIS government NAME ?? WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN. IF HAD A NAME OF HUSSEIN ID BE ASHAMED OF IT TO ….AND ASHAMED OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD CONSIDER VOTING FOR THIS MAN. EITHER WAY THIS IS GOING TO BE A FIRST FOR US A BLACK MUSLIM OR A WHITE WOMAN LOL TIME WILL TELL GOD HELP US ALL

I heard that Huckabee is a crank-head. The Portland Observer reported that he has smoked crystal meth with actor Dan Haggerty.

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HE SMOKES? WHO SMOKES ANY MORE ANYWAY?

I was telling my 10 year old daughter that I am trying to choose a President based on their strength of charecter, and their judgement. My daughter then pointed out that Obama smokes. How was i suppose to explain that.

It speaks to weakness on a regular basis, poor judgement, giving in to addiciton.

I’m not saying it’s reason enough to not vote for him, but we are trying to hang our hat on reasons to vote for him, and this just made me think, “um, no”

Are you people serious? Barack Obama is not Muslim (although I question the motives of anyone who thinks it would be the end of the world if he were - nothing is less American than baseless hatred and discrimination based on race, religion, or creed). And as for whether or not he smokes, has anyone here ever seen him do so on TV or in a photograph? I would suspect that no visual evidence exists, given the poorly-Photoshopped image heading this blog post. If he does smoke on occasion, his reluctance to do it while in the media’s eye means, to me at least, that he IS interested in “setting a good example for the youth of today” (who, must I remind you, tend to take their cues from their friends and entertainment celebrities rather than politicians).

The ignorance, thinly-veiled racism, and arrogant masquerading behind a username displayed on this site are to be expected, I guess. It seems more important to most “conservative”-minded people to make baseless and sensationalist attacks on candidates’ character, history, or habits than to rationally discuss the issues. Maybe you know that if you had to form sound, reasonable arguments against expanding health care or extending rights to LGBT people, your case would crumble very quickly. Better to appeal to voters’ guts than to their heads or even their hearts. But if the ignorance of opinion on this site is to be expected, could we not at least have decent spelling and grammar in the blog posts and in the comments? Doesn’t help your case much to seem as though you were so hot-headed in your response that you couldn’t even add punctuation.

You cannot expect a person who is addicted to nicotine to be impartial in dealing with the tobacco lobbyists…much LESS to lead this nation to a national health policy that will ensure coverage for all Americans. Quit (cigarettes) or QUIT (the race) Senator Obama!

Smoking Causes Many Types Of Cancers In Women!…

The revelations about women smokers will give you a jolt. A woman loses, on an average, 15 years of her life whereas a man loses just over 13 years to a butt of cigarette. According to one study the number of male deaths due to smoking and related dise…

He smokes a bit. Calm the hell down. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to fix America’s health care problems. His inability to quit smoking at the drop of a hat is not reflective of weak character. Nicotine is a very complex and addictive drug as it replaces a neurotransmitter in the brain, dopamine i believe. Quitting is quite taxing on ones mind, and he strikes me being in a rather stressful point in his life as it is. Nicotine use isn’t clean cut in the sense that you’re either a full blown addict to it or your not. I used moist snuff for about four years, and would go on little breaks every now and then…point is, i functioned fine while i was on it; i wasn’t a ravenous addict. Smoking around three cigarettes a day is really not a big deal. Bad habit really, not a full blown addiction.

I know plenty of Muslim people and they are wonderful people. Not sure what that has to do with Obama, as he isn’t even Muslim, but I just thought I’d say…

Who the hell cares that his middle name is Hussein? It’s a traditional name for people from where his father came (Kenya). He’s not Iraqi, he’s not Afghanistani (and people who assume THOSE two countries are the same are just ludicrous — get a globe… and a newspaper).

He’s not a friend of Osama, he’s not related to Saddam Hussein. He’s mixed-race because his dad and mom were of different ancestries (like every other American — I’m Scottish and German, what are you?).

Bill Clinton smoked cigars and was one of our best presidents. George W. Bush refused to admit doing coke, which reflects his lack of honesty in his term thus far. Obama has come clean about his history as a youth and about his sometimes-smoking habit. He’s human. As my friend said recently to another racist conservative Obama-hater, build a bridge and get over it.

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The Obama’s are RACIST! Barack should drop out of the Presidential race and resign his Senate seat. I would EXPECT the same from a white Senator. Neither our government nor our country need his “philosophy”. Shame on him for even coming near a so-called pastor spitting hate from his mouth like a snake spitting venom. SHAME!

We should judge a person by their actions and not their words. The fact that Obama choose Mr. Wright as his spiritual teacher for 20 years and included Mr. Wright in his election staff speaks well for Mr. Obama’s thinking and actions. Words are easy to manipulate and it is unlikely that Obama’s recent speech was written by Mr. Obama anyway. Mr. Obama has a powerful and power hungry staff including his wife that will do anything to get him elected to power. But clearly this man Mr. Obama is not to be trusted with the future of our great country. And regardless that he is ‘fashionably black’ and that many of you have some desire to prove to yourself or to others that you are not prejudice and that you like ‘black people’ with an attitude of ‘See, I like black people, I voted for a black person.’ And whether you are black or white, such an attitude of voting for a person because of their race is the definition of prejudice.

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millions rebeka? everyday?

It’s his own fault that it’s an issue because he preaches. He’s been set up as perfect - almost a savior. His followers swoon over him and it’s all about ideals without any details. Clinton smoked cigars but the Clintons are much more down to earth. With Obama, being this savior type, and then finding out he smokes makes him appear disingenuous. I really think he needs to be more down to earth and give some specifics. I like what he said about the silly gas tax relief and about other things, but until he stops preaching, and until his followers and the media start treating him like a candidate and not a religion, then yes, this will be an issue.

Anyway, the media was all over Hillary for oh, the way she laughs. Well, this is far more serious.

I guess Col. Charles Beckwith (the founder of Delta Force) was weak because he smoked(?). Good grief man.

It’s not that he smokes, but what quality tobacco is in his hand. Priorities man.

Ignorant people make important decisions based on trivial matters. Such as not going to the store just because FOX news says they found dirt in a local Walmart’s garden dept. Morons.

You are all stupid, stupid people.

1. how does smoking make someone less eligible for presidency.

2. hes quiting

3. pat if you cant explain why someone smoking shouldnt affect your vote,, then youre a bad parent

4. clinton smoked cigars

5. youre all ignorant and are blinded by propaganda watch real news thats isnt unbalanced such as fox.

So what if he smokes cigarettes. It is one of American’s right at the present time. I would rather have a president who smokes cigarettes than one who is an alcoholic.

I am sick and tired of smokers getting picked on more than alcoholics. Enough said!!

Um, last time I looked, cigerette smoking was legal. Roosevelt and Churchill used to pose with their cigs and cigars and neither died of lung cancer. However, Hitler would not allow smoking in his presence but I guess he had healthy lungs……..

John Mccain Smoked until he was 45. So what now? You going to vote for now? Bob Barr? Stop being ridiculous.

I can’t stand cigarettes but I think it’s a whole lot more important to look at Obama’s associations with “Reverend” Wright. We should judge others by the company they keep and the words they speak. Obama is a talented speaker and has great poise but I don’t think he has the qualities that America was founded upon. Our laws appear to hold little significance if Obama is supported as great enough to be president if he thought it was OK to associate to any degree with an admitted domestic terrorist.