Barack Obama Promises not to Smoke in the White House

 President-elect Barack Obama has promised that he will not smoke in the White House. I know that most of you are thinking to yourselves, “Barack Obama smokes?” The answer is yes he does. This has been a closely guarded secret all thoughout the election.

 The president-elect decided to quit smoking when he announced his run for the presidency because of the publicity the politically incorrect habit would bring. He hasn’t quite managed to quit.

 Barack Obama has admitted that he still smokes on occasion but that he will not smoke in the White House because it is a non-smoking area. He will honor the White House as a non-smoking area. Why the hell should he?

 If  Barack Obama chooses to smoke that is his choice. The anti-smoking lobby that has infringed on the personal choice of the people on what and where they can put something in their body has made it so “criminal” to smoke that even the president-elect had to hide his addiction from these anti-smoking Nazis. And the American voters.

 We have reached the stage in Nanny State America where the president isn’t even allowed to smoke in his own home. What the hell is wrong with us? The government does not have the right to regulate where and when a person can smoke, but that is what we have let happen gradually over the years. We have slowly but surely been giving up our freedoms under the guise of the government doing what they claim is for our best interest. And now even Barack Obama is falling victim to the politically correct, nanny state politicians who have no right in hell to tell the people where they can and can not smoke.

 Barack Obama should give the finger to the anti-smoking Nazis just as he has given the finger to the gun owners, the capitalists, the free speech advocates, the anti-infanticide crowd, the non-socialists, military hawks, the successful, and the rest of the “bitter” Americans. But he won’t. Why?

 Because he is weak. If he can’t quit a habit that he so desperately wants to quit than how can he be expected to stand up to the people who want to tell him where and when he can smoke?

 I defend Obama choice to smoke where he wants even as I condemn his lack of stones to stand up for the same. He has extolled the virtues of the nanny state and so that is where my paradox lies. It is because of politicians like Obama that Obama can’t smoke in his own home. If he were a man he would step up and say enough is enough. Or he would quit.