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Barack, don’t smoke — and don’t chew

January 22nd, 2008 at 03:35pm Pat Cunningham

Call me Victorian (or Vic, for short, if you’d like), but I’ve always hated the sight of people chewing gum in public. It makes them look like slack-jawed morons.

You can imagine, then, my disappointment at the sight of Barack Obama on TV the other night just chewing away like a Britney Spears fan. For a brief moment, I actually feared that he would use the word “like” five times in every sentence at the next Democratic debate.

I know Obama has been trying to quit smoking, and perhaps the gum is part of that effort. But please, Senator, not in public.

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