Barack Obama admits he used drugs and alcohol.
Posted by Media Outrage on November 21, 2007
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday told high school students that when he was their age he was hardly a model student, experimenting with illegal drugs and drinking alcohol.
“I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof-off in high school as my mom reminded me,”
“You know, I made some bad decisions that I’ve actually written about. You know, got into drinking. I experimented with drugs,” he said. There was a whole stretch of time that I didn’t really apply myself a lot. It wasn’t until I got out of high school and went to college that I started realizing, ‘Man, I wasted a lot of time.’”
Obama has written about his drug use in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.”
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man,” Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.
“I went to high school in Hawaii, so there was a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time,” he said. “I did well in school, but I didn’t really apply myself. I did what I needed to do to get into college and it came fairly easily to me.”His biggest interest was in sports and girls.
“I was big on basketball. We were state champs. I thought I was better than I was,” said Obama, who finds time on the campaign trail to still play a pickup game.
“I thought about girls a lot, I won’t lie.“
“I respect his honesty,” Giuliani said.
“One of the things that we need from our people that are running for office is not this pretense of perfection,” said Giuliani.
“If we haven’t made mistakes, don’t vote for us,” Giuliani said.
The man is definitely very well spoken unlike a certain current President that comes to mind.
