I notice the banner ads in the LR have had some John McCain stuff. Where’s Obama? Is he intimidated by our awesome physicality and obvious mental abilities? Enquiring minds want to know.
T.
I asked him, but he would not give me any details on why he would not, he just said he wanted to see a change in the LR behavior
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He’s here occasionally, incognito. If you look closely at the Ann Coulter banner, you’ll note the adams apple and hands appear smaller in some frames - that’s him behind the blonde wig and makeup.
Envious of our lung capacity. 
I recently read that he plays basketball with his Secret Service agents while waiting for returns and rallies. Perhaps he does not know about this site?
You should email him, and let him know you would like to see him here. 
I smoked for 15 years before quitting and taking up a healthier lifestyle. Having a recovering nicotine addict in the White House will make the tobacco companies shitting in their pants!
Haha!! Very funny! Actually, if you really listen to him, he gives an overkill of details. The health care discussion on the Dem debate on MSNBC the other night went on so long, and was so detailed, that it almost put me, a policy wonk, to sleep!!
That photo is classic. I’ve never smoked anything, ever, in my life and have never even put a cigarette in my mouth. I still scratch my head over folks who are obviously intelligent, and know the risks associated with something so bad as smoking, yet either take up the activity or continue it long after it becomes plain that it’s contributing to a slow death for them.
I agree also that policy positions are now beginning to come forth from the candidates. My guess is the media is going to force more and more substance out of all of them as we move through the year and up into November. It seems like it’d be a good thing, too.
T.
I agree also that policy positions are now beginning to come forth from the candidates. My guess is the media is going to force more and more substance out of all of them as we move through the year and up into November.
It’s funny listening to them nit-picking at the details of their opponent’s theoretical health care plan that will never come to fruition. Kinda like debating whether Bigfoot or the Yetti has a longer lifespan, only less entertaining.
My guess is the media is going to force more and more substance out of all of them as we move through the year and up into November.
That will certainly spell doom for McCain, particularly if they get past how great the surge in Iraq is working.
I suppose he could talk about his position on illegal immigration, how he opposes tax cuts and the economy but my guess is he will be wishing for the days he could just spend all his time reminding people that he was once a prisoner of war.
Presidential Tobacco Preferences George Washington 1789-1797 unknown
John Adams 1797-1801 cigar
Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 unknown
James Madison 1809-1817 cigar
James Monroe 1817-1825 unknown
John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 cigar
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 cigar
Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 pipe
William Henry Harrison 1841 pipe
John Tyler 1841-1845 cigar
James Polk 1845-1849 none
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 cigar
Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 none
Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 unknown
James Buchanan 1857-1861 unknown
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 unknown
Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 cigar
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 cigar
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 unknown
Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 cigar
Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 chewing tobacco
Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 cigar
Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 chewing tobacco
William McKinley 1897-1901 cigar
Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 none
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 none
Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 cigar
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 cigar
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 cigar
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 cigarette
Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 none
Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961 cigarette
John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 cigar
Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 cigar
Richard Nixon 1969-1974 cigar
Gerald Ford 1974-1977 pipe
Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 none
Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 none
George Bush 1989-1993 none
Bill Clinton 1993- cigar
It practically used to be a requirement that you were fat, drunk, smoking or had facial hair to be president.
“Bill Clinton 1993- cigar”
We know he had one but did he ever smoke it? We know the alternative uses…
“We know he had one but did he ever smoke it? We know the alternative uses… :)”
as I recall he didnt inhale.
And it doesn’t count since the cigar wasn’t lit.
(It wasn’t lit, was it? God I hope not
“Hussein” he has anything against triathletes?
Clever.
Monk is the smartest man I know from the LR and whom I’ve actually met, way back in '04.
T.
My first reaction to seeing a smoker is “loser.”
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