How is this newsworthy?

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  1. gipper

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html

    Until I see the president's college transcript, I'm not worrying about Romney's high school days.
     
    gipper, May 10, 2012
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    I wanna see more than Obama's grades. By his own admission, the president not only used, but also sold drugs in high school. I wanna know how he:
    1. Qualified to get into Occidental College.
    2. Qualified to get into Columbia University.
    3. Qualified to get into Havard Law School.
    4. Was chosen for the Harvard Law Review, but never published an article.
    5. Paid for all of these colleges.

    This is the same old crap.
     
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    President ‘Choom’

    FLASHBACK: OBAMA’S SORDID HIGH SCHOOL PAST
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    While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days.

    Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. TheHonolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.

    In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote. “That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man.” But, according to Obama, he only got high because he was contemplating deep matters: drugs could “push questions of who I was out of my mind.”

    Obama told students in 2007 that this activity constituted “goofing off” and “wasting time”:

    “I will confess to you that I was kind of a goof off in high school as my mom reminded me,” Obama said. “I went to high school in Hawaii, so there’s a lot of opportunity to goof off because the weather is really good all the time …
     
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    Rasmussen Poll: Romney 48%, Obama 44%…

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    One has to wonder how far Romney would be ahead if the media treated them equally instead of slobbering over Obama and making Mitt seem like evil incarnate.

    Via Rasmussen:

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows Mitt Romney earning 48% of the vote and President Obama attracting 44% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undecided.

    Romney has now had the lead for eight consecutive days.
     
    JO'Co, May 13, 2012
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