Barack Obama, asked about drug history, admits he inhaled

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Barack Obama, asked about drug history, admits he inhaled
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Published: Tuesday, October 24, 2006

PHOENIX, Arizona — Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who said Sunday that he was considering running for president in 2008, has created a little sunlight between himself and both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For one thing, he said, “When I was a kid, I inhaled.”

“That was the point,” Obama told an audience of magazine editors.

The direct admission was in contrast to Bill Clinton’s denial in his 1992 campaign for president that he had smoked marijuana.

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