« on: April 03, 2008, 05:35:18 PM »
Found this courtesy of
Real Clear Politics.Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper
Obama is Smokin'
April 03, 2008 9:29 AM
Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol.
This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents, back when you might see him strolling solo.
We chatted for a second, mainly about the Pakistan speech he'd recently given and about how the media had covered it. He was in good spirits.
As any close friend or family member can attest, I have an unusually keen sense of smell and immediately I smelled cigarette smoke on Obama. Frankly, he reeked of cigarettes.
Obama ran off before I could ask him if he'd just snuck a smoke, so I called his campaign.
The rest is at:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obama-is-smokin.htmlWasn't there a poll that came out a few months ago, which said something to the effect that a
lot of Americans wouldn't vote for a smoker?
Logged
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Chase her even when she's yours.
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