The way people handle and hide their bad habits reveals their character flaws. There is no doubt that smoking is a bad habit, bad in the sense that it causes physical harm to the smoker and those around him. It stinks up the house. That’s why you find people in the dead of winter standing on the balcony puffing away while the snow flies around them.

But what does it tell you about the person? The person who goes outside to smoke is demonstrating respect for others in spite of a personal weakness, a lack of discipline and self control.

In the case of Barack Obama, what does it tell the voter? To quote John Gibson from the January 17 edition of Fox News’ The Big Story with John Gibson: Sure he’s young, sure he’s charismatic, but what do we really know about Barack Obama? And what does he really stand for? Obama is the kind of presidential hopeful who appeals to the masses. He portrays himself as a political moderate, but he’s much more liberal than he says he is. And his team works overtime trying to hide Obama’s dirty little secret. He is — get this — a cigarette smoker. The point is: What else do we not know about Barack Obama? America seems to love him now, but will we still love him tomorrow?

If he gets elected, will he go outside the White House to smoke or is there some kind of high tech smoking room for presidents who are so lacking in self discipline that they hurt themselves and those around them.

It really doesn’t matter if or where he smokes. What does matter is his propensity for lying, equivocating, and obfuscating!

“A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice aforethought deliberately murdered.”
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