Perhaps The New Surgeon General’s First Task Should Be To Ban Smoking In The White House

• January 7, 2009

Our next President Barack Obama is a smoker, so shouldn’t he be forced to quit? After all, Barry is a much bigger celebrity than Joe Camel ever was.

He’s also America’s principal celebrity at this time. Teenagers are going to want to emulate their celebrity hero. I think that there is no doubt whatsoever that many young people will take up smoking because their hero-celebrity president smokes. Sanjay Gupta could make quite a statement if he made Obama’s quitting of the nicotine habit as a condition of his acceptance of the appointment to Surgeon General. That could be an initial victory for the cause of public health.
By the way … please consider this. I know that ending your addiction to nicotine is a tough job; so is the presidency. If Obama isn’t strong enough to quit smoking, how is he strong enough to be an effective president?

Good question.
Sarcasm aside, I actually don’t have a problem with Barack Obama smoking. He’s a citizen, this is a free country and tobacco is a perfectly legal substance. If he wants to smoke, I say let him.
But it would be just if Obama were forced to quit because of the same sort of big government, nanny state, “we know better than you do” policies the left (and many busy bodies on the right too, unfortunately) shove down our throats all the time.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Nanny State, Politics

http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

Gupta, an Emory neurosurgeon who covers medical affairs for CNN, was in Kuwait to document the work of the U.S. Navy’s front-line medical unit, the “Devil Docs.” He received national attention when he operated on an injured Iraqi child.

“I didn’t intend to work as a doctor while there, but there was no neurosurgeon in the field,” Gupta says. “So they started saying, â€˜If someone gets shot in the head, we’ll just call Sanjay.’ Then it happened–five times.”

The first was a two-year-old Iraqi boy, who was wounded at a marine checkpoint south of Baghdad. Despite Gupta’s efforts, the boy died. “Children are always the hardest,” he says. “They are clearly the innocent bystanders in all this.”

He also operated on two Iraqi combatants, and two coalition force members. One, a 25-year-old marine, had been shot in the head in Baghdad.
ollie-B

Would this post be here if Obama was not a smoker? Another petty post by Rob, the Angry.
http://bullwinkleblog.com/ Bullwinkle

Here’s a portion of another petty article about Obama’s smoking, from antoehr petty source:

Barack Obama has quit smoking. Mostly. As he told Tom Brokaw in a Dec. 7 Meet the Press interview, he has “fallen off the wagon” occasionally. Oh, all right: When pressed, Obama said he’d “done a terrific job under the circumstances” of keeping up a healthy lifestyle. He has vowed not to break the current White House ban on smoking, but if Obama takes his nicotine addiction with him to the Oval Office, he’ll have distinguished (if smelly) company.

Time Magazine, those petty bastards!

Friggin’ Conservatives, sore losers and all, you know…

There’s a current White House ban on smoking?

Those petty bastard Conservatives.
2Hotel9

Perhaps the new Surgeon Generals first task should be to get some real medical qualifications.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Troll bait.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

I accept your apology.
jk

Is it me or does this scum bag look like a typical piece of street shit from Chicago?
Rick

Isn’t there a law banning smoking in federal buildings? The last time I checked, the White House falls under that category.

Can you imagine O having to step outside the gate with the other smokers every time he wants to light up?
Ennis

The residence portion of the White House is considered, for all intents and purposes, a private residence just like your or my home is. The same federal laws that apply to private residences would apply there. If ol’ Barry wants to have a smoke in his house it is still his right to do so. My guess is that Michelle will kick him out to the balcony to have his smokes, though.
jk

The TODD…even if he was as white as snow, he’d still look like a piece of street shit.
thetodd

JK

Is it me or does this scum bag look like a typical piece of street shit from Chicago?

No, my openly racist uncle, openly racist neighbor, and openly racist co-worker agree with you.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Barry is a member of the “do as we say, not as we do” self-styled elite.
2Hotel9

OK, if he is such a great surgeon why is he spending all his time rumormongering on TV?
2Hotel9

Wow! More proof that Israel is using Chemical Weapons against your heroes HAMAS. You are on FIRE, boob!

And tell us again, if Gupta is such a great surgeon, why is he spending all his time rumormongering on TV?

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