Obama: I used coke
posted at 2:03 pm on January 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
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In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he says.
In an interview during his Senate race two years ago, Obama said he admitted using drugs because he thought it was important for “young people who are already in circumstances that are far more difficult than mine to know that you can make mistakes and still recover.
Apparently Tom Maguire and I are the only two right-wing bloggers who aren’t ostentatiously indifferent to this. Tom doesn’t want kids using Obama as a role model for casual drug use; I’m less concerned about that than the fact that Obama seems to get political benefits from admitting to it. I don’t hold what he did against him — I couldn’t in good conscience, having voted for Bush despite his alcoholism and his rumored drug abuse as a younger man. But it’s one thing not to penalize someone who’s contrite and another to reward him for the transgression. E.g.,
Obama’s supporters said his admissions in the book could work to his advantage.
“I think it will be received as refreshing,” said Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Obama’s fellow Democrat from Illinois. “If you compare similar books, many of us in the political business tend to have selective memories.”
He’s more human this way, you see. More honest and “real.” Wait ’til Barbara Walters finally interviews him and he works up some tears. He could win 40 states.
Drugs are no laughing matter, people. Although they can be a giggling matter. Watch this educational film about spiders and you’ll see.
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Have a Coke and a Smile!
dallas94 on January 3, 2007 at 2:06 PM
But, did he inhale?
R D on January 3, 2007 at 2:09 PM
It doesn’t matter, you could have a pimp running a gay prostitution ring in your apartments and they would elect you, you could have several thousand dollars of payola in the freezer and they would elect you, you could let a city literally sink and they would elect you, you could be caught doing drugs with a prostitute and they would elect you. I know, I know that I am exaggerating, but it could happen…couldn’t it?
right2bright on January 3, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Teddy Kennedy has used “recreational” alcohol for years and he still gets re-elected. He is also a recovering manslaughterer and, as has been recently disclosed, a former treasonous bastard in the 1980s. Doesn’t seem to have hurt his career.
Mallard T. Drake on January 3, 2007 at 2:11 PM
You could kill a woman, by driving your car off a bridge, then leaving, and they would elect you.
amerpundit on January 3, 2007 at 2:12 PM
He used but didn’t inhale. Dang, R D beat me to it.
vcferlita on January 3, 2007 at 2:13 PM
This only works for Democrats.
Esthier on January 3, 2007 at 2:14 PM
You could claim you support Unions and then use non-union workers in your vineyard and they would elect you.
NTWR on January 3, 2007 at 2:16 PM
It never seemed to bother Marion Barry.
natesnake on January 3, 2007 at 2:17 PM
You could have a male beard that sleeps with anything in a skirt….
bbz123 on January 3, 2007 at 2:17 PM
I killed a hobo once.
I’ve still got a couple chained in the basement.
Could I be U.S. Congressman?
natesnake on January 3, 2007 at 2:19 PM
I used Pepsi. But only occasionally.
Halley on January 3, 2007 at 2:19 PM
You could have been a member of the KKK and they will elect you… otherwise I was going to start a rumor that Obama was a KKK member.
frankj on January 3, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Nice video by the way. It had me going for a bit.
Esthier on January 3, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Glenn Beck had an interesting take on this. When comparing Mitt Romney, who from most accounts lived a very proper life relying on his strong religious beliefs, to Mr Obama who appears to have strayed, it will be protrayed that Romney is to be feared for his religion while Obama is to be lauded for his failings because it makes a good human interest story.
Moral of the story: Stay clean and be scorned
Hell of a message to send to our kids ain’t it.
LakeRuins on January 3, 2007 at 2:20 PM
In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though,” he says.
Oh, well then, as long as it wasn’t heroin. Whew, had me worried there for a moment.
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R D on January 3, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Obama’s a lightweight. Real men use heroin. Coke is for wannabes and yuppies.
Slublog on January 3, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Ok, I see, now that he’s confessed I guess that makes it go away. Is the public really as stupid as these politicos think they are?
rplat on January 3, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Gee, I wonder if Hillary and Co. will make an issue out of this in the democratic primaries …
thirteen28 on January 3, 2007 at 2:22 PM
Snorting cocaine gives you big ears.
robman27 on January 3, 2007 at 2:23 PM
I thought that video was real until the THC spider built a hammock… Love it!
dalewalt on January 3, 2007 at 2:24 PM
I’d say about half are. Sadly.
R D on January 3, 2007 at 2:25 PM
This might help explain why Billy Jeff is in sex rehab, everybody gotta be fessin’ up about their addictions. I just want to know who’s hooked on Phonics.
bbz123 on January 3, 2007 at 2:27 PM
To a teenager, this condones the use of cocaine , or gives the kid permission to try coke. They will think “I can use it occasionally and for a short time” & “If obama blowman can do it and stop, so can I.”
This is a horrific example. He’s a f*%king IDIOT!
Addictions are different, people that are addicted HAVE NO CHOICE TO QUIT OR NOT!!!!! They CAN NOT quit by themselves.PERIOD.
frickin FOOL OBAMA. What have you done?
He must be silver spoon fed, never seeing what really happens.
My respect for him is gone, forever.
shooter on January 3, 2007 at 2:30 PM
p.s. Funniest vid I’ve seen in a long long time. Capped his ass. haha hehe hoho…
shooter on January 3, 2007 at 2:31 PM
Sort of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. You think it would have been better to use the Bush/Haggard tactic, and just lie through his teeth?
The video was excellent btw. Thanks for that.
THeDRiFTeR on January 3, 2007 at 2:32 PM
Did I ever tell you about the time I was raging on PCP and had intercourse with a llama?
A dead llama… He had it coming… Tart.
I should run for U.S. Senate.
natesnake on January 3, 2007 at 2:32 PM
Politicians using their drug use for political gain
…
wow … just wow.
One Angry Christian on January 3, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Did you guys know his middle name was Hussein?
spmat on January 3, 2007 at 2:41 PM
and where are the bimbos? coming soon.
roninacreage on January 3, 2007 at 2:48 PM
I like him more already…
Opinionnation on January 3, 2007 at 2:55 PM
How low can we go
Did he mention if he stopped….
EricPWJohnson on January 3, 2007 at 2:59 PM
OH- ALL SO VERY TRUE! and they bitch that Iraq isn’t running perfectly.
shooter on January 3, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Geez, what a hoot…between natesnakes’ dead llama liaison and the caffeine spider demise, I’m just glad my cube is tucked away from the rest of the farm where I can let loose. Oh man that’s funny!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
JohnnyD on January 3, 2007 at 3:12 PM
Where do you find these great videos?
budorob on January 3, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Re the video:
Heh…
Lonevoice on January 3, 2007 at 3:20 PM
That fact that some think his revelation will help him politically does not mean that’s why he wrote it. There is too much of this presuming to know the motives of others going in, IMHO.
mikeyboss on January 3, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Eh to be fair at least he admits it. That’s why bush did not get dogged by his alcohol and drug use, he admitted it. A lesson to would be politicians.
Theworldisnotenough on January 3, 2007 at 3:27 PM
*Bush
Theworldisnotenough on January 3, 2007 at 3:27 PM
One time a “friend” of mine told me to inhale this “helium” in a balloon. Turned out to be a “whip it”. Everything went into slow mo. Drugs are bad nkay!
Drtuddle on January 3, 2007 at 3:36 PM
At this point I would call BS on anyone running for office, except my brother in law, if they say they never tried any drugs (pot, mesc, acid, coke, shrooms, ludes, or the like).
I just cant imagine anyone growing up in these days that never tried something.
Rich on January 3, 2007 at 3:40 PM
We could call him “Chimpy McCokespoon” now, and give the BDSers a taste of their own illness. But that would be racist.
Savage on January 3, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Well…he has just solidified his base.
The really base, BASE.
Next…
seejanemom on January 3, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Sadly, you will have to run as a Dem. The Republicans will look the other way on the cross species/necrophiliac thing.
But gay? Now you’ve done it.
honora on January 3, 2007 at 4:10 PM
It will be real interesting to see how liberals spin his admitted use of coke after all of their sliming of W. for alleged coke use.
thirteen28 on January 3, 2007 at 4:10 PM
… and his freebase.
thirteen28 on January 3, 2007 at 4:11 PM
But only in Massachusetts… I hope.
Viper1 on January 3, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Lol! That spider thing is one of the most hilarious videos I have ever seen!!
emmaline1138 on January 3, 2007 at 4:22 PM
natesnake on January 3, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Geez, if I had a dime for every time I heard that excuse….
honora on January 3, 2007 at 4:31 PM
*starts to sob*
I was young.
*sniffle*
I needed the money.
natesnake on January 3, 2007 at 4:38 PM
Savage – good idea. How about Baboon McCokespoon
RushBaby on January 3, 2007 at 5:01 PM
At the risk of sending this thread wildly off course the statistics for high school seniors who had used drugs in the late seventies was around 65%. Odds are many people, including politicians between the ages of about 40 and 60 have at least experimented with drugs.
As to Bush and his alcoholism and subsequent reform I believe that fact endeared him to many people who have struggled with alcohol or drugs and managed to beat it.
It is too early for “October surprises”. Look for what breaks in the couple of weeks before the first set of primaries.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Yep – always.
Rick on January 3, 2007 at 5:27 PM
I have never used so-called recreational drugs. I have never had a problem with alcoholism, and I have not used alcohol in a very long time. I guess that the difference between me and the politicians is that they seem to have the urge to use drugs and alcohol before, during, and after they have been in office, while I only have those urges after I have watched them serve in office for some time.
CyberCipher on January 3, 2007 at 5:54 PM
The many postings here prove that past/former/current alcoholism or drug use neither impresses anyone nor does it disqualify anyone from American politics. So I guess it’s time to move on to skankification. Of course, honora will object, since that bring us right back to the Clintons again. I’ll ask the question anyway. What would Obama have to do in order to disqualify himself?
CyberCipher on January 3, 2007 at 6:02 PM
How about supporting policies or programs the majority of the voting public wouldn’t accept?
Hoping for scandals to disqualify someone is the easy button.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 6:06 PM
A half-white, half-black blank canvas surrounded by all his nose candy.
Is he a muslim or a Clinton Christian?
doingwhatican on January 3, 2007 at 6:24 PM
So it was Ok to be outraged at Bush’s DUI, but Obama snorting Coke is BAU (Business as usual)?
Hypocrisy? Oh that is right, when the left denied reason, that included the Law of Non-Contradiction. And they try to say that Christianity isn’t rational….
Tim Burton on January 3, 2007 at 6:28 PM
Become a Republican?
R D on January 3, 2007 at 6:38 PM
LOL! True genius is thinking the unthinkable.
CyberCipher on January 3, 2007 at 6:47 PM
He admitted to past drug use in a time when it was not uncommon. He stopped and moved on. It would be a show stopper if he were still using drugs.
Outrage is a vicious circle and tends to earn one the label of hypocrite. Two years of it will turn off the moderate voters in a big way. The party that exhibits integrity, maturity and some wisdom is the party I’d prefer to see in charge. Neither has displayed much of any of these in the past few years.
Let Obama and Hillary take each other on in the primaries and define their positions. Voters are not dumb. Once the primaries are over they can weigh what the candidates support against what their wishes are and choose accordingly.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Exactly, Allah. And Bush’s ‘rumoured drug use’ is bullsh*t, fabricated by life-long hardcore bullsh*tters
Kerry probably did more blow during various glitzy-party weekends than Bush ever did his entire uneven life
Janos Hunyadi on January 3, 2007 at 6:56 PM
So… Clinton(D) didn’t inhale… his brother was just a ‘victim’ and Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is showing “candor”.
In contrast to repeated indulgence by the MSMs of every conspiracy theorist’s smears of Bush(R) they could squeeze into prime time that he… drumroll please…
did… COCAINE!
Besides… is the arrogance of Barack Hussein Obama Jr. measurable given he wrote his FIRST memoir at age 30?
Puhhhhhleeeeeze.
RockStars, pro-athletes and combat veterans… sure.
Self-indulgent silver-spoon-up-their-ass poor little richboys… haaaaal no.
DANEgerus on January 3, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Um, Bradky, doing cocaine was, for me and most other Euros and Americans,uncommon Is this going to be a Race Thing?
Janos Hunyadi on January 3, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Race Thing? Where do you get that from?
I am in that 40-60 year old group I mentioned. I was a young adult in the 70’s & 80’s and a lot of people did a lot of different drugs. The 80’s were flush with coke. Some facts if interested can be found at http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/pddrdrugaids3.htm
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 7:09 PM
His personal past could be an issue and his lack of a substantive past should be an issue.
And if I had a nickel for every time a liberal called a black person ‘articulate’ simply because they can utter a complete sentence, I’d be a damned billionaire.
This is insightfully called ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.’
Didn’t Bubba snort coke like a “vacuum”?
doingwhatican on January 3, 2007 at 7:22 PM
U
Whaaat? You must have lead a very sheltered life. Or you are under 30.
R D on January 3, 2007 at 7:36 PM
So, can the GOP just rerun those ads, you know, “This egg is a brain.” Turn up the grill, “This is a brain on drugs.” sizzle!
Actually, it really is “refreshing.” The Left gets to foist yet another cosmic anomoly on the brains of their hapless followers: Republicans must be PERFECT and if it can be even insinuated they did something illegal/tacky/racist in theri past, that’s sufficient grounds to ruin them. Meanwhile, everything that is considered an evil with the GOP, is conversely, a desirable characteristic to be hoped-for in a Dem, and real experience in illegal/tacky/racist is loveable quirkiness, nay, gritty realism. This “cognitive dissonance” ought to drive a few more Libs to the shrinks – “See this egg? It’s a normal brain.” Broiler up, “This is a brain on DNC talking points.” Sizzle!
naliaka on January 3, 2007 at 7:40 PM
I have this sense that people who actually use the word “smack” have probably used “smack” or want you to think they have.
“I’m cool, I’m hip, no…I couldn’t hang with no smack”…
Jaibones on January 3, 2007 at 7:54 PM
Okay, Bradky and R D, I guess that either you guys or I are ‘projecting’.
I expect other debauched, drug-deranged lost souls to chime in…… just kidding, boys
The “drug thing” reference is to the apparent fact thatthe use of cocaine is reported to be and have been more widespread among blacks than whites–and therefore any criicism of Barack Hussein will be tagged as racist
by the way, got any blow?
Janos Hunyadi on January 3, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Not me but feel free to project away if you like. 65% of high school students in the seventies admitted to using drugs. That’s an across the board statistic, no racial breakout given or implied. Initially cocaine was popular as a powder and very expensive. Crack was invented to expand business to the poor. Soooo it stands to reason that the initial surge in cocaine use was actually done by whites (if you accept the socioeconomic stats of those days).
You may not like this but the inconvenient truth about Bush is that he chose not to be up front about his DUI (alcoholism yes but not the arrest) – he had it shoved back at him. Obama chose to be honest about it when he wrote his book. Apples and oranges in this discussion.
Again, it is so much easier to stick to the issues and positions to determine who will be voted in. Things like this are not worth this much ink.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 8:24 PM
I’ve got a comment on BLOW for you. But you’re probably out of touch with that too.
R D on January 3, 2007 at 8:36 PM
“The 80s were flush with coke”: that sounds like a stereotyping cliche rather than anything close to a convincing argument. The website you provided was…less than impressive.
Your opinions about the “surge” in cocaine use and Who was doing What are your opinions. The studies I recall reading noted a higher use among blacks than whites, but all studies of drug use are problemmatic–they depend on self-admitted behavior, like the studies of Who get Laid, and how often
As for Bush in a previous post, I was referring to the cocaine accusations, not about anything else.
Janos Hunyadi on January 3, 2007 at 8:40 PM
If you state that cocaine use was common, you can expect similar resposes.
Janos Hunyadi on January 3, 2007 at 8:43 PM
So you were actually projecting your projections through RD and I. Got it.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 8:50 PM
Really? See, I’d rather see the party that is true to the Founding Fathers be in Charge, that means dumping everyone left of…well….Everyone.
Lord how much longer till the left rises again? I’m tired of this bloated
governmenttyranny.Tim Burton on January 3, 2007 at 8:53 PM
I recall it being called the rich mans drug for a reason. Bradky is right about crack and coke. Two completely different drugs. And NO, Hunyadi, I don’t do drugs.
R D on January 3, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Seems that integrity, maturity and wisdom were central themes to the Founders.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 8:58 PM
Rich:
I’m 36 and I THINK I’ve smoked -maybe-a pack of Virginia Slims. I did have a problem with a LEGAL drug-diet pills-but I went cold turkey in 2003
I’ve NEVER tried anything “illegal”-nor has my 47 y. o. husband.
Some of us are just square.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 3, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Well he just lost the Pepsi vote. This will have no impact on whether he will or won’t be a presidential or VP candidate. If he were a repub, he’d be toast. But this will only add to his rock-star status in the dem party…
ritethinker on January 3, 2007 at 9:43 PM
Too sadly true…
R D on January 3, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Great video.
Tanya on January 3, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Wonder if he was snortin it or smoking it? The stigma of smoking it would probably turn off more voters than snortin it.
If that was before he applied to the bar, he would have had to lie on the application when asked about previous drug use, that would be a nice one to try to explain away.
I can’t wait for the election.
Alden Pyle on January 3, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Heh! (chuckles some more) Good one.
hillbillyjim on January 3, 2007 at 11:14 PM
Be careful what you ask for. Lots of people lied about drug use when signing up for the bar, the military and a whole host of other jobs. Sooner or later a republican will be raked through the coals on the same type of issue.
Is this really the kind of tactic that should be concentrated on knowing that the repercussions will be much stiffer? (whether a different standard is applied is not really the point, not much that can be done to change that).
Someone noted that they and their spouse didn’t use drugs. Good for them – I sincerely applaud their discipline in a tempting time. But statistics showthey were the distinct minority. There is roughly a 2 in 3 chance that anyone in the 40-60 age group has used drugs of some sort at some time. Want to get an unscientific sense of how widespread drugs were? Ask any college English professor who taught in that time frame how many “Legalize Pot” essays they had to grade.
Bradky on January 3, 2007 at 11:17 PM
damnit Bradky! Stop! How would it look, if you and I keep agreeing? You must have grown up in real life like I did. It doesn’t mean you did the drugs, it doesn’t mean you didn’t. Just real life, that you and I must have seen about the same time.
R D on January 4, 2007 at 1:37 AM
I can’t believe Osama bin Laden was a party guy. Won’t the mullas stone him or something?
Buck Turgidson on January 4, 2007 at 1:41 AM
LOL R D. I’ll try not to do that again.
It does seem as if we grew up in similar times and environments.
Bradky on January 4, 2007 at 7:06 AM
I heard that obama once that he could fly, not because he was on drugs, he had just watched that Dumbo the Elephant cartoon.
JackM on January 4, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Did he inhale?
Good Lt on January 4, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Actually, a Republican (Bush) already was raked over the coals for cocaine use despite their being no evidence or admission thereof.
thirteen28 on January 4, 2007 at 12:00 PM
grr … there, dammit, not their.
thirteen28 on January 4, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Two wrongs don’t make a right but if you want to look and act like a lefty extremist emulate their tactics.
Bradky on January 4, 2007 at 12:13 PM
How is that acting like a lefty extremist? Obama has admitted using cocaine – something that a wide swath of society disapproves of. Cocaine is an extremely dangerous and addictive drug (much more so than marijuana or alchohol) and people absolutely have the right to question his judgement for using it – especially if he is asking us to put him in the highest office in the land.
If anyone is using lefty extremist tactics here, it’s you with your own attempt at ridicule those that would question Obama’s judgement.
thirteen28 on January 4, 2007 at 1:40 PM
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