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Tense Nazis: Is The President A Smoker?

By Kleinheider Posted on June 22, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Judging by the President’s syntax, maybe:

There are fewer touchier questions inside the White House than this: Is Mr. Obama still smoking? One administration official declined to answer on Monday, but pointed out that the president spoke in the present tense, “I know how difficult it can be to break this habit,” as opposed to, “I know how difficult it was to break this habit.”

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13 Responses to “Tense Nazis: Is The President A Smoker?”

  1. Sean Braisted writes
    June 22nd, 2009 2:59 pm

    “Tense Nazis”?

  2. common sense writes
    June 22nd, 2009 3:10 pm

    And Herr Kleinheider wishes to welcome Wacker Chemie AG and Volkswagen to Tennessee. Ja voll!

  3. GoldnI writes
    June 22nd, 2009 3:18 pm

    Adam Kleinheider is anti-Semantic.

  4. egoist writes
    June 23rd, 2009 6:09 am

    Controls (and taxes) are for the little people.

  5. steve easley writes
    June 23rd, 2009 6:24 am

    Ja, we do as he say, not as he do.

  6. HatlessHessian writes
    June 23rd, 2009 6:48 am

    “The plummeting economy demands tough sacrifices of all of us. That’s why I’ve lowered the White House air conditioner to 65 degrees, flew White House one up to NYC for a movie with Michelle, disrupt traffic all over D.C. with secret service escorts shutting down sectors to grab an ice cream cone with the girls, sent Air Force One up to snap a polaroid, fly Hollywood actors and other social elites to my weekly parties outfitted with only the best top chefs can create, fly pizza from St. Louis since this D.C. stuff is not fit for a king, and now smoke three packs a day while regulating it with the FDA for everyone else. It’s great to be the King!”

    - Czar Barack Obama, June 2009

  7. looking closely writes
    June 23rd, 2009 9:34 am

    Of course Obama is still smoking.

    He’s already admitted to lying about quitting during his campaign after he won the election. If he couldn’t quit then, why would he be able to quit now?

  8. Fawning Intern writes
    June 23rd, 2009 9:54 am

    Please back off. How else are we able to curry favor on a daily (hourly) basis?

    The more industrious of us carry an assortment of cigs (Gauloises are his favs) and use butane lighters (you can guess why). Watch for the eye contact and meet him behind the rose bush; you’re assured of some quality face time, albeit my drycleaning bill has quadrupled. But what the heck?

  9. James writes
    June 23rd, 2009 11:14 am

    I don’t mind if he smokes…to each his own. What I am most interested in is HOW he smokes:

    1. Between first two fingers, including during drags (like 90% of folks)

    2. Like a “Jay”, with thumb and forefinger during drags

    3. Or, like number two, BUT with palm extended upwards for drags (as Hank Hill says to his son Bobby: “don’t hold it like you’re some effite German officer in occupied France”)

  10. Tarheel writes
    June 23rd, 2009 11:18 am

    The REAL ”Cigarette Smoking Man” doncha know!

  11. Reid writes
    June 23rd, 2009 11:57 am

    Is he still smoking? I sure hope so. With all the crises in play right now, the last thing we need is a President undergoing nicotine withdrawal.

  12. Nightly Ramble: The Campground Edition | BitsBlog writes
    June 23rd, 2009 3:04 pm

    [...] if I smoke? I gather that’s a touchy subject at the White House these days.  from the Nashville Post, by way of [...]

  13. Smokinsforpansies writes
    June 23rd, 2009 9:53 pm

    On December 11, 1993 I quit chewing - not smoking - chewing tobacco; the strong stuff. Cold turkey. Circled the day on the calendar, said that’s it, and stopped. No patches, no support groups, no hypnosis, no gum, no crappola. Should have never started and when I figured that out, I quit.

    Anyone who can’t kick tobacco is weakminded. No shame in that per se as long as you admit it. If you’re gonna smoke, smoke. If you’re gonna quit, quit. Deal with it and move on. Sheesh!

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