Why is the left not calling Obama a hypocrite over the smoking issue?

According to the left, it is only possible for a conservative to be a hypocrite. This is not an idle exaggeration, it is what they ACTUALLY say about themselves.

You see, according to liberals, liberals have NO standards of any kind at all so it's impossible to fail to live-up to them. They quite literally define morality by their own behavior of the moment.

Also, they misuse the word in the first place. To them "hypocrisy" is not claiming a standard you do not have, it's simply having ANY standards you fail on at any time - ever. BY their definition, therefore, ALL humans are hypocrites - unless they're liberals.

The anti-smoking bill is about the government controlling the tobacco industry more than anything else.

They will regulate where the products should not be sold,the specifics of advertising (tobacco-brand sponsorships of sports and entertainment events will be stopped), the commerce involved and the control over the flavors used (no sweet tasting products because, amazingly, only children like sweet products).

Obama's personal story is simply added as some kind of justification to the public,but the real purpose is nationalizing this industry,as he is slowly but surely nationalizing all the others.

Yes,you can still smoke,that he is not banning .But now the government has more control over you.So the Bristol Palin comparison is besides the actual issue.And yes, the Left will not call him out on it because this serves their purpose of Socialization the nation .

You don't have to be a non-smoker to know that something drastic has to be done. It's not as though being a smoker affects your ability to think and reason - or to seek to try and stop others from becoming addicted just as you are. I am not a fan of the Palin clan, but I have not called Bristol Palin a hypocrite. Same theory. You don't have to be innocent of a mistake to try and make sure others don't make the same one.

Sex isn't an addictive drug like nicotine.

You do realise nicotine is more addictive than caffeine or weed.

Because, likelihood is he tried to stop smoking.

And we all know how hard that can be, where as bristol, talks about abstinence yet hasn't tried practicing it.

She has a child.

Surely saying **** i got a kid, maybe i should have used protection would be better. than saying i got a kid maybe i shouldn't of had sex.

The fact of the matter is that in hindsight you can say whatever you want, but unlike smoking you cant go back to abstinence.

Yea he still smokes and he may have tried to give it up but it is proven that when prices of fags go up, people try to quit more and people smoke less.

Where as it is also shown that more unplanned pregnancy's happen in areas where sex education is abstinence only.

We actually saw Obama smoking before he came out against tobacco? Now that's so hypocritical. Unlike Larry Craig (R)who was strongly against homosexuals then gets busted in the mens room for soliciting? Or John Edwards(D) busted for cheating on his wife after running a pro-family values campaign?

Having an addiction, seeking treatment and standing up for prevention is just so not hypocritical

Bristol is a hypocrite because she was on the cover of people magazine in a gradation gown with her baby in her arms which is implying "i got pregnant and finished high school so can you" however most pregnant teens don't have governors as moms, and how is obama a hypocrite for trying to prevent smoking, bristol is not trying to prevent teen pregnancies she is encouraging it

Stop nit picking. Anyway Bristol Palin will probably be pregnant again by next year because she will not stop having sex but to save face her mother will pay the father to marry her.

As a former smoker I know the battle well.....Good for him that he wants to prevent and protect future smokers from that horrid habit.

he smokes and knows its bad for him. what a fat person can't say eating fried food is bad for your health? give it a rest. you're grasping at straws looking for an excuse to slam Obama and call him a hypocrite.

because the left will support obama on anything & everything he does. if obama shot john mccain, the left would be perfectly okayy with that. theyre a bunch or kool-aid crap faces who do nothing but worship obama.

ireland sounds better everydayy :)