Barack obama admits to smoking crack

And he credits his eldest daughter Malia with getting him to quit, writing she 'frowned' at him after 'smelling a cigarette on my breath. During his presidency there was endless speculation on whether or not Obama had kicked the habit, which he famously promised his wife Michelle he would do before he campaigned for president. In his forthcoming memoir, Barack Obama admits to smoking eight or nine cigarettes a day in the White House until daughter Malia caught him - above he's seen with his eldest daughter in the Oval Office in February In his book, Obama also talks about the toll the presidency took on his and Michelle's marriage.

Obama began smoking as a teenager and talked about his struggle to quit. Am I daily smoker, a constant smoker? I don't do it in front of my kids. I don't do it in front of my family. He was never caught on camera smoking during his White House tenure, but there were hints of his habit.

In , during Obama's trip to Germany for a G-7 meeting, a spokesman for the then-Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi posted a photo online that appeared to show Obama holding a pack of cigarettes. During the debt crisis in August , Obama was photographed in the Oval Office with what appeared to be Nicorette gum on his desk. In his memoir, Obama also writes about how life in the White House took a toll on his marriage.

Malia Obama was 10 and Sasha Obama was seven when their father became president. He and Michelle had been married 16 years when they became the first couple. Obama hints at frustrations felt by his wife in the fishbowl life of the White House. Obama adds that there were nights 'lying next to Michelle in the dark, I'd think about those days when everything between us felt lighter, when her smile was more constant and our love less encumbered, and my heart would suddenly tighten at the thought that those days might not return.

In , during Obama's trip to Germany for a G-7 meeting, a spokesman for the then-Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi posted a photo online that appeared to show Obama holding a pack of cigarettes but the White House said at the time it was not. President Obama writes his own historic election - he and his family are seen at his January 20, inauguration - brought about racial tension in the country.

In her memoir, Michelle Obama revealed she and her husband had been to marriage counseling in the early days of their marriage.

Main Menu U. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. The former president admitted he would often look for a "discreet location to grab an evening smoke. He wrote that Malia, now 22, got him to quit after she "frowned" at him after "smelling a cigarette on my breath.

In the past, Obama has spoken about his struggle to quit smoking - a habit he picked up as a teen. Republicans in particular should emphasize the senator's conventionally liberal voting record and policy positions that echo the tired old lefty nostrums of Ted Kennedy.

His pose as a "new kind of politician" has far more to do with his transracial identity and persuasive rhetorical style than it does with his political platform. With Hillary apparently determined to burnish her own centrist credentials, she will need to focus her campaign on demonstrating to primary voters and the public at large that Obama doesn't qualify as a real "New Democrat" in any sense of the term.

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