Obama Smoking Picture: Andrea Mitchell Investigates (VIDEO)

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

So, in the least surprising news of the day, Time Magazine named Barack Obama its Person of the Year for 2008. Because, duh. Despite all the pageantry and pretense, no one in their right mind should have expected anything different. Sarah Palin makes America angry and Henry Paulson's face is the terrifying visage of our financial apocalypse. Besides, Time's Rick Stengel is no dummy. He understands that the only way to backstop the slow decline of print media is to employ what Ana Marie Cox calls the "Franklin Mint model." Ask Rick about the all-new revision Shepard Fairey did of his famous Obama poster, exclusively for Time, why not?

But that's not to say that Time hasn't got some content, surprising and new, to go along with the most obvious POTY choice ever. Check out these funky pictures of a young Obama that Time's billing as "the long, lost college photos." What's he smoking? Why's he dressed like that? Stengel took up the matter with Andrea Mitchell today on MSNBC:

more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/obama-smoking-picture-and_n_151787.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Time has said it's a cigarette - why not cut to the chase and put that in the OP?

:shrug:

Besides, you can see the filter...

[spanone]

2. dig deep andrea....meanwhile your husband helped destroy america's economy

'what's he smoking?'
'why is he dressed like that?'

hard hitting journalism andrea, hard hitting. cheney tortures...yawn....obama smokes.....investigate.....fuck you people

[stillcool]

3. Ah...the 80's...

when you could still smoke a cigarette and not be declared a degenerate. I didn't smoke too much pot then, I was more of a coke-head.