MSNBC: "Obama admits occasional cigarette" (Yeah, and Bush was drunk at the Olympics. Your point?)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Get a whiff: Obama admits occasional cigarette
President confirms gossip that he hasn’t entirely kicked his smoking habit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31512752/ns/white_house/



WASHINGTON - It fell to President Barack Obama to confirm the gossip that his aides had spent weeks trying to snuff out: He still sneaks an occasional cigarette.

"There are times where I mess up," Obama said at a White House news conference on Tuesday.

But, the president hastened to add, he never smokes in front of his young daughters and not on a daily basis. Oh, and he's "95 percent cured."

It was the first public acknowledgment from the president that he still hasn't completely kicked the habit. In the past, he had alluded to his three-decades-old habit without giving direct answers.

[azurnoir]

1. good lord who can blame him?

all things considered I wouldn't blame him if cigarettes were not the only thing he occasionally smokes

[zbdent]

2. If Obama has to "provide a birth certificate" at every appearance, could we demand

Bush take a breathalyzer test every day? Since he's "100 percent cured" of alcoholism, by his own "admission" ...

[RandomThoughts]

3. He has enough things to work on.

You have to think he can put the issue or problem of having an occasional cigarette off to fix some other day, so he can solve the big issues that effect many people.

There seems to be a few important things in the world going on.

[liberal N proud]

4. The difference is the media sees his admission as a weakness

Yeah bu$h was drunk but the media let it slide because bu$h denied he was an drunk. That makes him strong

Obama openly admits he struggles with smoking. He is a weak man because of his admission.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. So sad, and so true...

...for 8 years, that was always trumpeted as one of Bush's "strengths"...that he would never admit a mistake of any kind. Put that together with photos of him clearin' brush and drivin' around in his pickup in his big ol' cowboy hat and you've got one rootin' tootin' mean an' ornery kick-ass president, Stretch...

Yet another example of how baffling human behavior can be, specifically "character traits," real or imagined, that people in the mainstream seem to value.

[get the red out]

5. Exactly!

Bush sounded screwed up on something in a lot of his addresses also. Why no questions about that? I don't even think he was mentally competent enough to be seen in public much by the end.

It's not like President Obama vanished on a hike, or was caught with great quantities of illegally obtained Oxy, or caught in a men's room up to no good, or wearing diapers in a whore house in New Orleans.

[Gman]

6. My favorite from the Olympics...

[Zywiec]

7. It took me a minute to realize Bush was even in that photo

I was totally distracted by the other two...

:evilgrin:

[Robb]

13. I still don't see him

:shrug: :D

[Gman]

14. As I'm sure Bush was...

here's the story:

"Mr. President," she said, "want to?"

Want to has nothing to do with it in public life.

Pres George W Bush declines Misty May-Treanor's invitation to slap her butt in celebration and brushes her back instead

As the son of a president, a husband of nearly 37 years, the father of two daughters, the subject of some attempted tabloid exposes and a seasoned political veteran, who is not a female athlete but knows that every camera for a half-mile is trained on him, Bush wisely chose instead to brush his hand across the small of May-Treanor's back. (See photo.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/bush-olympics.html

Bush is pretty stupid, but he ain't THAT stupid!

[madokie]

9. My hope is he is stealing away some time for a little toke

every once in a while. I'm not talking about tobacco either :-)

[opihimoimoi]

10. That comes under Creative Solutions....carry a note pad and pen....

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. I don't care if he smokes a pack a day and two joints. (nt)

[Forkboy]

12. Oh noes!!!111!

[LaydeeBug]

15. bfd. nt

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

16. Not believing it. No one smokes one cigarette every other day or so.

[Cha]

17. Give it up, Pres Obama!

You can do it@!