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Obama is a pothead; part of intricate Kenyan drug cartel with half-brother

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  1. yo

    yo Member

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    I'll just do it before basso/big_texxx get to it.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/31/george.obama.arrest/index.html

    Obama's half brother arrested for mar1juana possession

    NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police for possession of mar1juana, police said Saturday.

    Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested for possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said.

    He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi.

    CNN Correspondent David McKenzie talked with George Obama at the jail where he is being held. Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations.

    "They took me from my home," he said, "I don't know why they are charging me."

    George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met before. George Obama was one of the president's few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week.

    In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama describes meeting George as a "painful affair." Barack Obama's trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

    McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August 2008 and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother's extended family. His birth certificate shows he is Barack Obama's half brother.

    The two men share the same Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child.

    Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half brother, George hardly knew his father.

    George was his father's last child and had not been aware of his famous half brother until he rose to prominence in the Democratic primaries last year.

    Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August 2008.

    The reports sprung from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama lived in a shack and was "earning less than a dollar a day." Those reports left George Obama angry.

    "I was brought up well. I live well even now," he said. "The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

    "I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges," Obama said.

    Obama, who is in his mid-20s, said at the time that he was learning to become a mechanic and was active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tried to help the community as much as he can.
     
    #1 yo, Jan 31, 2009
  2. RocketMan Tex

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    So this is what they mean by the "big bhang" theory.....
     
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  3. bigtexxx

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    Barack has plainfully admitted that he smoked mar1juana and did cocaine. He's never shown good judgment in his life by the people he surrounds himself with.
     
    #3 bigtexxx, Jan 31, 2009
  4. DonnyMost

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    Someone call the cops... Texxx's thunder just got..

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  5. leroy

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    And so did W. What's your point again?
     
    #5 leroy, Jan 31, 2009
  6. fmullegun

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    WTF? How does that guy have money for drugs? I thought he lived on like a dollar per week.

    Freaking drug addicts! :mad:
     
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  7. fmullegun

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    Change?
     
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  8. RocketMan Tex

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    Only W never admitted it. People that he surrounded himself with admitted it for him. :D
     
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  9. fmullegun

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    I think W was more into Coke and alcohol than he was into weed. Doesn't really seem like a pothead. They both also probably did a bunch of amphetamines when they went to harvard. It is pretty sad that our last three presidents have all done illegal drugs.
     
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  10. Uprising

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    QFT :eek:
     
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  11. rimrocker

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    Please. They reflect the society they live in.
     
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  12. fmullegun

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    How so? Statistically thats an anomaly for sure.
     
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  13. insane man

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    just a quick google search. no idea about the validity.

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  14. fmullegun

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    Less than 50% for weed so thats anomaly. To pick three in a row from a minority group. The CDC claims in 2007 the number was 38.1%. so to choose 3 from 38% is 5% chance!

    When you factor in that the president should be higher standard it is even more shocking.


    For coke the CDC says 7.2% for lifetime use. thats a super small minority.

    http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/yrbs07_us_drug_use_trend.pdf
     
    #14 fmullegun, Jan 31, 2009
  15. Angkor Wat

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    More like every president we ever had. Alcohol is a drug too. Just because its legal doesn't make it any better. Honestly, I don't think its a big deal as long as it was "back in the day" and they no longer do those "drugs". We have all done things in our younger days that could be considered worst than puffing on a blunt, or snorting a line.
     
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  16. fmullegun

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    did you even read where I said illegal drugs?

    Are you high right now?
     
    #16 fmullegun, Jan 31, 2009
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    President should be held to a higher standard? It's not like he did it recently, but back in his high school/early college days. Chill out. Before that time, mar1juana was legal.
     
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  18. fmullegun

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    None of the last 3 presidents were alive when it was legal.
     
    #18 fmullegun, Jan 31, 2009
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    The problem is that D.A.R.E. didn't exist when they were kids.... ;)
     
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  20. Dairy Ashford

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    With all that undeveloped land they've gotta be growing it locally, so the "hut-value" in Kenya might be a little lower. And as long as they don't go all Ramon Cota, or try to export it here, I'd say the third-worlders are probably entitled to a litte bhang.
     
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