WASHINGTON – Barack Obama admitted using drugs in his autobiography but never revealed if or when he stopped, points out an explosive new book on the Democratic presidential candidate written by the co-author of 2004’s “Unfit for Command,” the Swift Boat exposé that impacted John Kerry’s campaign for the White House.

“I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years,” Obama wrote in “Dreams From My Father,” in a section of the book about his college days. “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.”

In “The Obama Nation,” a new book by Jerome Corsi, a WND staff writer, the author speculates about why Obama disclosed his drug use.

“Why Obama chose to disclose he smoked marijuana and used cocaine at all remains a mystery,” Corsi writes. “Perhaps Obama felt the information would eventually come forward from his school buddies. So, to minimize the damage from this concealed fact, Obama possibly judged self-disclosure was the best route.”

Obama wrote that he stopped short of shooting heroin when it was offered to him by a friend.

“I’d looked at him standing there, surrounded by big slabs of salami and roast beef, and right then an image popped into my head of an air bubble, shiny and round like a pearl, rolling quietly through a vein and stopping my heart. …”

Corsi points out Obama has yet to explain whether he ever sold drugs or when he stopped using them.

“Did Obama ever use drugs in his days as a community organizer in Chicago, or when he was a state senator from Illinois?” Corsi asks. “How about in the U.S. Senate? If Obama quit using drugs, the public inquiry certain to occur in a general election campaign for the presidency will most certainly aim at the when, how and why questions George W. Bush successfully avoided.”

Obama linked drug use in his college years with his struggle for identity and specifically with issues of race.

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatale role of the young would-be black man,” he wrote.

Corsi continues: “He denies the ‘highs’ had been about “me trying to prove what a down brother I was. … I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory.”

Despite the seriousness of the revelation by Obama about his college drug use as late as the 1980s, there has been little attention given the issue by the political reporters who cover the candidate. In fact, none have asked the questions Corsi asks in his book – or, at least they have not published or broadcast answers if the questions were asked.

WorldNetDaily

Well at least he does have extensive experience with drugs.

Boy wait until rickmavem and his new best friend pdxstogieman read this thread. They will be after donutboy2000 boy like a jihadist on a Danish cartoonist.

Of course no one has asked questions its freaking Obama.

He could kill someone at a rally that is being broadcast live to every major station and people would probably cheer.

Hey DB....

You need to update your list of deaths...

48. Bill Gwatney (Chairman Arkansas Democratic Party)...

what does that arkansas politician have to do with Obama being the best guy for the pesident job...you must be doign the NBC throw them off the topic manuver

I hope a CEO job opens up at Google, Microsoft, or some other fortune 500 so I can get the job. Apparently you need no experience to run big companies/countries anymore.

I could care less if he used every drug in the book.

Seeing that GWB is an admitted cocaine user and alcoholic, Brother Jeb Bush's daughter was arrested for trying to obtain drugs using a falsified prescription, Rush Limbaugh and Cindy McCain both were addicted to prescription meds that they procured through illegal means, etc, etc, etc, it seems like using drugs illegally or having family or supporters that do, or having some other addictive vice is a non-partisan pre-requisite to hold the highest office in the land.

Oh and the credentials of the author of this instant classic of epic proportions are impressive. It's really good that the blurb points them out so everyone can grasp the immense credibility and gravitas of this impartial observer of the human condition. I'm sure this book will have a significant and lasting impact on his immediate family and people who have to go to the effort to lift it to look at the books underneath it in the piles of closeout books at Borders, Barnes and Noble etc, that are on sale for a price equivalent to 2/3 of the cost of the materials it was made of.

I'm sure that Donutboy has the coffee table sized edition ala Kramer.

This book is sure to raise compelling questions like...WTF?, HUH?, and most intriguing...Who gives a f#ck?

Yeah I was going with who gives a f#uck.

GWB took mind altering drugs but they had no effect on him.

"nukuler"

2. Author: Gene363

when did i acquire a new friend?

pdxstogieman:

"Seeing that GWB is an admitted cocaine user and alcoholic..."

Yes. And the leftists (especially here) use that as a club to beat the man over the head with. Now, with Barak (cheese-eating) Hussien (surrender-monkey) Obama, DTB, ES it's our turn.

Sauce for the good, you know...

"...Brother Jeb Bush's daughter was arrested for trying to obtain drugs using a falsified prescription..."

And Jeb Bush compelled her to do this?

Some of the most stand-up people have stupid kids who do stupid things. And while I'm a big believer that your children are a reflection on you, there is a limit to how far you can go using the actions of an idiot to demean the and defame someone else.

Case in point: Chelsa Clinton. A regular party girl.

"...Rush Limbaugh and Cindy McCain both were addicted to prescription meds that they procured through illegal means..."

This argument really bugs me.

People get addicted to pain medication ALL THE TIME in this country. Bill Murry has, Chevy Chase has, and so on.

I don't see the same people who go after Limbaugh and Cindy McCain trying to run Bill Murry and Chevy Chase out of business. These individuals - because they have their "mind right" - are given a pass.

Getting addicted to pain meds is one of the few areas where I tend to cut people a little slack. If you've gone to a doctor and received something like Oxycontion, and then got addicted to the stuff as a consequence, these people need to be shown a little compassion. It also differs from the people who steal stuff like Oxycontin for the sole purpose of being high, and then get addicted to it later. One had actual issue with physical pain, the other was just some creep being stupid in his pursuit of having a good time, and knowing the risks involved.

I have regular back pain, due to nerve damage that might have been cause by one of my surguries. I don't take pain killers because they can be so addictive. In fact, pain avoidence is one of the most addictive emotional states. It trades one kind of limitation for another. I'll take and ignore pain.

Dentistry, however, is another matter.

"This book is sure to raise compelling questions like...WTF?, HUH?, and most intriguing...Who gives a f#ck?"

I do. So I can regularly use the fact that Barak (cheese-eating) Hussien (surrender-monkey) Obama, DTB, ES was a cokehead as a means to "rub their nose in it" when it comes to Barak (cheese-eating) Hussien (surrender-monkey) Obama, DTB, ES supporters - some of whom have made George Bush's past cocaine use a huge issue for the last seven years.

That's called "hypocrisy".

I will say the whole pain killer thing pisses me off to.

Of course I have a personal battle in the fight. My wife whom has had cancer 5 different times, lost her leg, and has a permanent torn tendon in her good leg has to take a good amount of pain killers to even be able to function. Chemotherapy patients tolerance is supper high, then your body builds up a tolerance to most opioids pretty quickly.

The government has basically turned all attention to prescription drugs because they couldn't do anything about actual illegal drugs. My wife with all those problems spent 2 weeks trying to find a Dr. that would prescribe her what she needs because the DEA has basically scared most Doctors and they media and government has made most opioids out to be worse than freaking heroine.

And yes there has been times, because of the DEA scarring the pants off of Doctors and clinics she was forced to dr. shop or buy some of the street. GOD FREAKING FORBID someone with legit pain actually freaking find help.

Sorry about the rant...

re 12

Rick,

When pdxstogieman started reading your posts. (;-)

8. Author: pdxstogieman

"I'm sure this book will have a significant and lasting impact on his immediate family and people who have to go to the effort to lift it to look at the books underneath it in the piles of closeout books at Borders, Barnes and Noble etc, that are on sale for a price equivalent to 2/3 of the cost of the materials it was made of."

Hey, pdxstogieman, apparently you missed this

http://tinyurl.com/6s55vb 

Of course, it's just the first week. It can't stay there forever.

-bean

^ beansdad, I think pdxstogieman must have gotten this book mixed up with Nancy Peslosi's Book. Just like a Liberal, she sure screwed that Publisher.

SPEAKER OF THE FLOP: PELOSI SELLS 2,737 COPIES OF BOOK

Thu Aug 07 2008 08:11:48 ET

The most powerful woman in the history of American politics is suffering a humiliating defeat at the nation's bookstores, sales figures show.

In her first week at market, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sold just 2,737 copies of her book KNOW YOUR POWER, according to NIELSEN BOOKSCAN.

The DOUBLEDAY release was launched with a full media push, featuring high profile interviews on TODAYTHEVIEWTHISWEEK.

"I wrote the book in response to people asking me what it was like to go from housewife to House Speaker and for advice as to how young people, especially women, could balance family and career," Pelosi told the WASHINGTON POST.

Pelosi's sales debacle [#41 on the Non-Fiction Chart] is dramatically overshadowed by the first high profile anti-Obama book, OBAMA NATION, which debuts at #1 on both the BOOKSCAN and the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List, with 21,466 copies moved, industry insiders tell DRUDGE.

"The speaker was pre-occupied with house business last week," a source close to Pelosi explained Thursday morning. "She has now turned her focus to promoting this extraordinary book... doing local signings and speeches. I think we'll see an uptick."

VaMtMan,

Very true, hadn't thought of that.

LMAO

-bean

16. Author: beanasdad

did you miss this "A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders."

lots and lots of books ordered by right wing groups to either distribute free or to throw in the garbage can, but done so to make it appear that people are buying this book individually.

this book was written or co written by the same SOB that swift boated kerry to make it appear that kerry wasn't even in nam. it was all a fake.

same group, different person to atack. all BS.

hannity really liked him.

PELOSI, by her very inactions is an open book, and not a very good one.

i hope cindy S dislodges her from her seat.