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	<title>Comments on: Michael Phelps Bong Picture (Exclusive)</title>
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		<title>By: samson</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-2/#comment-10932</link>
		<dc:creator>samson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>weeds the shit 
stop hatin&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>weeds the shit<br />
stop hatin&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: derek kramer</title>
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		<dc:creator>derek kramer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does Michael Phelps’ lung capacity allow him to take monster bong hits?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does Michael Phelps’ lung capacity allow him to take monster bong hits?</p>
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		<title>By: Billy Mays</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-2/#comment-10218</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Mays</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Legalize not legal lies.

Yay for phelps!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Legalize not legal lies.</p>
<p>Yay for phelps!</p>
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		<title>By: Jj</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you think Phelphs personally hurt you or your feelings you should go kill yourself you stupid cunts the poor basterd just wanted to feel good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think Phelphs personally hurt you or your feelings you should go kill yourself you stupid cunts the poor basterd just wanted to feel good.</p>
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		<title>By: Skyler</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-2/#comment-8067</link>
		<dc:creator>Skyler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, there is a lot more shit in the world going on than fussing over someone hitting a bong..whoopdie fucking doo people. I GLADLY AND PROUDLY SMOKE WEED. He has no reason to apologize to ANYONE, it&#039;s his life let him live it the way he fuckin wants. I function when i smoke so where does that put him??? Is there any fucking difference from catching a kid that was smoking then catching Michael Phelps?? NO so if anyone has a fucking problem shove it up ur ass cause this is just POINTLESSSS......
AND I AGREE WITH EVERYONE ELSE, JUST FUCKING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, there is a lot more shit in the world going on than fussing over someone hitting a bong..whoopdie fucking doo people. I GLADLY AND PROUDLY SMOKE WEED. He has no reason to apologize to ANYONE, it&#8217;s his life let him live it the way he fuckin wants. I function when i smoke so where does that put him??? Is there any fucking difference from catching a kid that was smoking then catching Michael Phelps?? NO so if anyone has a fucking problem shove it up ur ass cause this is just POINTLESSSS&#8230;&#8230;<br />
AND I AGREE WITH EVERYONE ELSE, JUST FUCKING LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: mikayla</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-8046</link>
		<dc:creator>mikayla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oh amd one more thing pinksparklestar. YOU SPELLED FOR WRONG YOU FUCKING STUPID BITCH! XD</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oh amd one more thing pinksparklestar. YOU SPELLED FOR WRONG YOU FUCKING STUPID BITCH! XD</p>
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		<title>By: mikayla</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-8045</link>
		<dc:creator>mikayla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pinksparklestar what you smokin&#039; i know what Michael Phelps is but heck im still a michael phelps fan! light one up for Mike! ^_^ and one more thing. IF ANYONE TRIES TO HURT MY MIKEY I&#039;LL BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA YOU! YOU GOT THAT! HE&#039;S ALL MINE!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pinksparklestar what you smokin&#8217; i know what Michael Phelps is but heck im still a michael phelps fan! light one up for Mike! ^_^ and one more thing. IF ANYONE TRIES TO HURT MY MIKEY I&#8217;LL BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA YOU! YOU GOT THAT! HE&#8217;S ALL MINE!</p>
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		<title>By: pinksparklestar</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-8044</link>
		<dc:creator>pinksparklestar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I loved Michael Phelps until I saw this picure. He was my idol.I was his number one fan from the heart. Now he&#039;s nothing to me  but a dope, a dummy, a nobody and I hope he hears this so he can realise what a big mistake he made and what a jerk he is fro braking my heart. And im sure half the worlds fans hearts are broken too!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I loved Michael Phelps until I saw this picure. He was my idol.I was his number one fan from the heart. Now he&#8217;s nothing to me  but a dope, a dummy, a nobody and I hope he hears this so he can realise what a big mistake he made and what a jerk he is fro braking my heart. And im sure half the worlds fans hearts are broken too!</p>
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		<title>By: ROORtC</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7979</link>
		<dc:creator>ROORtC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Noone should care what he does off season. smokein bud isnt hurting anyone.  Hehas good tatse on Bongs too.. ROOR custom son!</description>
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		<title>By: Jacob</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7918</link>
		<dc:creator>Jacob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After all the talk of mike smokin. Is there even any smoke in the cylinder. I am a smoker and any smoker knows that if there is no smoke in the bong your probably not taking a real hit!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After all the talk of mike smokin. Is there even any smoke in the cylinder. I am a smoker and any smoker knows that if there is no smoke in the bong your probably not taking a real hit!</p>
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		<title>By: john wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7825</link>
		<dc:creator>john wilson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>first of all by smoking pot micheals not being a good steward of his body hes acting irresponsible, are you guys kidding me legalize it? whats wrong with you why are stoners proud of this, it demoralizes phelps character i dont look up to him anymore as an admirant swimmer im ashamed i wish i had the lungs he has he just abuses them, can you imagine the little kids that look up to him and see him smoking pot on the news, im dissapointed in him and america and 70% of america for trying to justify it</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>first of all by smoking pot micheals not being a good steward of his body hes acting irresponsible, are you guys kidding me legalize it? whats wrong with you why are stoners proud of this, it demoralizes phelps character i dont look up to him anymore as an admirant swimmer im ashamed i wish i had the lungs he has he just abuses them, can you imagine the little kids that look up to him and see him smoking pot on the news, im dissapointed in him and america and 70% of america for trying to justify it</p>
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		<title>By: StillBlade</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7751</link>
		<dc:creator>StillBlade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, by the way, Andrew from 03 Feb - what kind of maladjusted, mentally disturbed, freak sewer dweller are you?  Are you for real?  I am of the opinion, collectively, all of us on the blog should find out where you are, beat your freaky ass with axe handles then take you around from school to school and show kinds what a shithead inbreed looks like.  After that we should beat the shit out of your parents.  What were they, by the way; brother and sister or father and daughter/mother and son?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, by the way, Andrew from 03 Feb &#8211; what kind of maladjusted, mentally disturbed, freak sewer dweller are you?  Are you for real?  I am of the opinion, collectively, all of us on the blog should find out where you are, beat your freaky ass with axe handles then take you around from school to school and show kinds what a shithead inbreed looks like.  After that we should beat the shit out of your parents.  What were they, by the way; brother and sister or father and daughter/mother and son?</p>
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		<title>By: StillBlade</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7750</link>
		<dc:creator>StillBlade</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Lynsey.  Never ceases to amaze me; almost a 900 BILLION &quot;stimulus&quot; bill being shoved down our throats to avoid a purported depression (money that we do not have and is being borrowed from other nations) that is naught but a spending bill, worries that Iran will gain nuclear weapons, North Korea still doing it&#039;s thing, our brothers and sisters turning into fertilizer in Iraq and Afganistan, wildfires in Australia, 50% of Detroit can&#039;t read, unemployment closing-in on the old record. . . .but the BIG STORY is Michael Phelps blowing a fatty.  And let&#039;s not forget A-Rod doing some &#039;roids - HOLY SHIT it&#039;s the end of the world as we know it!  Give me a fuckin break!  Those bozos cranking about Mike getting mellow would probably sink if thrown in water.  Mike - you rock!  You are still a hero and the cool people in America stand with you.  Just to fuck-up your lungs with the smoke, dude.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Lynsey.  Never ceases to amaze me; almost a 900 BILLION &#8220;stimulus&#8221; bill being shoved down our throats to avoid a purported depression (money that we do not have and is being borrowed from other nations) that is naught but a spending bill, worries that Iran will gain nuclear weapons, North Korea still doing it&#8217;s thing, our brothers and sisters turning into fertilizer in Iraq and Afganistan, wildfires in Australia, 50% of Detroit can&#8217;t read, unemployment closing-in on the old record. . . .but the BIG STORY is Michael Phelps blowing a fatty.  And let&#8217;s not forget A-Rod doing some &#8216;roids &#8211; HOLY SHIT it&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it!  Give me a fuckin break!  Those bozos cranking about Mike getting mellow would probably sink if thrown in water.  Mike &#8211; you rock!  You are still a hero and the cool people in America stand with you.  Just to fuck-up your lungs with the smoke, dude.</p>
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		<title>By: frhonda dixon</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7748</link>
		<dc:creator>frhonda dixon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why is it ok for lindsay lohan to snort coke and party like a rock star? mike worked twice as hard to get his gold metals. let the poor guy be. he deserves to party a bit.  rock on mike!!!! im with u all the way babe!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why is it ok for lindsay lohan to snort coke and party like a rock star? mike worked twice as hard to get his gold metals. let the poor guy be. he deserves to party a bit.  rock on mike!!!! im with u all the way babe!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: l. snow</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7723</link>
		<dc:creator>l. snow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why kind of a loser would print this and fuck with a young kid as accomplished as michael phelps?!</description>
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		<title>By: Princess</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7696</link>
		<dc:creator>Princess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it&#039;s ridiclous that he&#039;s being attacked for something so ridiclous !so what if he took some bong hits sat down and ate a bag of chips ! Or maybe a bowl or cereal !!!!!!! I Guess since it&#039;s socially acceptable , Everyone would rather him go out and get drunk act like a retard and beat someone up . Leave the poor guy alone he&#039;s a wonderfully talented man and shoudn&#039;t be being ridiclued like this , GOD EVERYONE REALLY NEEDS TO GET A LIFE AND START WORRYING ABOUT THE REAL PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD !!!!  HOw about the war , The Ressession , And Child Poverty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it&#8217;s ridiclous that he&#8217;s being attacked for something so ridiclous !so what if he took some bong hits sat down and ate a bag of chips ! Or maybe a bowl or cereal !!!!!!! I Guess since it&#8217;s socially acceptable , Everyone would rather him go out and get drunk act like a retard and beat someone up . Leave the poor guy alone he&#8217;s a wonderfully talented man and shoudn&#8217;t be being ridiclued like this , GOD EVERYONE REALLY NEEDS TO GET A LIFE AND START WORRYING ABOUT THE REAL PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD !!!!  HOw about the war , The Ressession , And Child Poverty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Lonny James</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7663</link>
		<dc:creator>Lonny James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael, you must stand up on the highest podium you can with all of your gold medals, infront of as many people as you can and say.....FUCK YOU BITCHES IM MICHAEL PHELPS How many medals do you guys have ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael, you must stand up on the highest podium you can with all of your gold medals, infront of as many people as you can and say&#8230;..FUCK YOU BITCHES IM MICHAEL PHELPS How many medals do you guys have ?</p>
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		<title>By: Bongwater</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bongwater</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael lost his cornflakes endorsement and was suspended for a time.  Not too bad. Maybe ROOR could pay him for his endorsement of their product!  His big screw up in my opinion was letting some dickhead (as Seth Meyers on SNL called him) take his picture while he was toking.  Big mistake!  Hopefully that &quot;friend&quot; has had his ass kicked by now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael lost his cornflakes endorsement and was suspended for a time.  Not too bad. Maybe ROOR could pay him for his endorsement of their product!  His big screw up in my opinion was letting some dickhead (as Seth Meyers on SNL called him) take his picture while he was toking.  Big mistake!  Hopefully that &#8220;friend&#8221; has had his ass kicked by now.</p>
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		<title>By: CPTUSARET</title>
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		<dc:creator>CPTUSARET</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will not say what Michael Phelps did was wrong, immature and nor a poor demonstration of judgment and character.  I do not approve of his smoking pot, if in fact he did, just as I was disappointed and did not approve of his DUI a few years ago.  However, 50 million Americans just elected a President, who, according to his own admission used illegal drugs.  
Nearly three decades ago, Barack Obama stood out on the small campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles for his eloquence, intellect and activism against apartheid in South Africa. But Mr. Obama, then known as Barry, also joined in the party scene.
Years later in his 1995 memoir, he mentioned smoking “reefer” in “the dorm room of some brother” and talked about “getting high.” Before Occidental, he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student in Hawaii, according to the book. He made “some bad decisions” as a teenager involving drugs and drinking, Senator Obama, now President Obama, told high school students in New Hampshire during the primaries.
Mr. Obama’s admissions are rare for a politician (his book, “Dreams From My Father,” was written before he ran for office.) They briefly became a campaign issue in December, 2007, when an adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama’s chief Democratic rival  (and now his Secretary of State for the United States), suggested that his history with drugs would make him vulnerable to Republican attacks if he became his party’s nominee.
Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has never quantified his illicit drug use or provided many details. He wrote about his two years at Occidental, a predominantly white liberal arts college, as a gradual but profound awakening from a slumber of indifference that gave rise to his activism there and his fears that drugs could lead him to addiction or apathy, as they had for many other black men.
Mr. Obama’s account of his younger self and drugs, though, significantly differs from the recollections of others who do not recall his drug use. That could suggest he was so private about his usage that few people were aware of it, that the memories of those who knew him decades ago are fuzzy or rosier out of a desire to protect him, or that he added some writerly touches in his memoir to make the challenges he overcame seem more dramatic.
In more than three dozen interviews, friends, classmates and mentors from his high school and Occidental recalled Mr. Obama as being grounded, motivated and poised, someone who did not appear to be grappling with any drug problems and seemed to dabble only with marijuana.
No, I did not vote for Barrack Obama; however, he is still the President of the United States, my President, and our President!  I watched the campaign for his presidency just as intensively as I watched Michael Phelps win 8 medals during the Beijing Summer Olympics.   While I do not agree with what President Obama did in his youth, nor many of the things he is now doing as President, the same holds true for me concerning some of the behaviors of Michael Phelps that have surfaced from time to time.   That being said, I respect Barrack Obama as our President and I respect Michael Phelps for his accomplishments as the greatest swimmer and Olympian in history.
By the way, I am not proud of every single thing I have done throughout my life but I try to live an honest and good life.   I am sure almost every person on the face of the earth have done things that they are not proud of and that you now have misgivings about.  Give Michael Phelps and President Obama a chance.   While they may be role models and celebrities, they are, after all, just human beings. 
I fully concur with Ricky Hampton’s comments recently in his editorial in The Flint Journal and find it commendable that he did not condemn Michael Phelps as so many Americans have.  Other web sites have hundreds of comments stating that what Michael Phelps did was okay to screaming that he should be stripped of all 14 Olympic Medals.  Others go on to say that Michael Phelps should be prosecuted in South Carolina:   I was born in SC and thank God I don’t live there anymore if that is all a sheriff has to do is ponder arresting a 23 year old celebrity based upon a photograph, that for all intents and purposes, could have been modified.  If we go to that extreme in this country, shouldn’t we impeach President Obama for his own admissions of illegal drugs?  We have far more important issues facing this great nation than to worry about what Michael Phelps is doing in his free time.  Thanks for listening, America.
P.S.  Michael, listen to the great advice of Ricky Hampton.  Remember, you are not some run of the mill, Joe Blow in America.  You are in our nation’s limelight in the same way Barrack Obama is.  Thank you for making America so proud of you during the Olympics.  Now, go forth and continue to make us proud.  We all make mistakes:  Do not let your past determine who you are, but rather allow you past to determine who you will become.
Mike C., Kansas City</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will not say what Michael Phelps did was wrong, immature and nor a poor demonstration of judgment and character.  I do not approve of his smoking pot, if in fact he did, just as I was disappointed and did not approve of his DUI a few years ago.  However, 50 million Americans just elected a President, who, according to his own admission used illegal drugs.<br />
Nearly three decades ago, Barack Obama stood out on the small campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles for his eloquence, intellect and activism against apartheid in South Africa. But Mr. Obama, then known as Barry, also joined in the party scene.<br />
Years later in his 1995 memoir, he mentioned smoking “reefer” in “the dorm room of some brother” and talked about “getting high.” Before Occidental, he indulged in marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine as a high school student in Hawaii, according to the book. He made “some bad decisions” as a teenager involving drugs and drinking, Senator Obama, now President Obama, told high school students in New Hampshire during the primaries.<br />
Mr. Obama’s admissions are rare for a politician (his book, “Dreams From My Father,” was written before he ran for office.) They briefly became a campaign issue in December, 2007, when an adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama’s chief Democratic rival  (and now his Secretary of State for the United States), suggested that his history with drugs would make him vulnerable to Republican attacks if he became his party’s nominee.<br />
Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has never quantified his illicit drug use or provided many details. He wrote about his two years at Occidental, a predominantly white liberal arts college, as a gradual but profound awakening from a slumber of indifference that gave rise to his activism there and his fears that drugs could lead him to addiction or apathy, as they had for many other black men.<br />
Mr. Obama’s account of his younger self and drugs, though, significantly differs from the recollections of others who do not recall his drug use. That could suggest he was so private about his usage that few people were aware of it, that the memories of those who knew him decades ago are fuzzy or rosier out of a desire to protect him, or that he added some writerly touches in his memoir to make the challenges he overcame seem more dramatic.<br />
In more than three dozen interviews, friends, classmates and mentors from his high school and Occidental recalled Mr. Obama as being grounded, motivated and poised, someone who did not appear to be grappling with any drug problems and seemed to dabble only with marijuana.<br />
No, I did not vote for Barrack Obama; however, he is still the President of the United States, my President, and our President!  I watched the campaign for his presidency just as intensively as I watched Michael Phelps win 8 medals during the Beijing Summer Olympics.   While I do not agree with what President Obama did in his youth, nor many of the things he is now doing as President, the same holds true for me concerning some of the behaviors of Michael Phelps that have surfaced from time to time.   That being said, I respect Barrack Obama as our President and I respect Michael Phelps for his accomplishments as the greatest swimmer and Olympian in history.<br />
By the way, I am not proud of every single thing I have done throughout my life but I try to live an honest and good life.   I am sure almost every person on the face of the earth have done things that they are not proud of and that you now have misgivings about.  Give Michael Phelps and President Obama a chance.   While they may be role models and celebrities, they are, after all, just human beings.<br />
I fully concur with Ricky Hampton’s comments recently in his editorial in The Flint Journal and find it commendable that he did not condemn Michael Phelps as so many Americans have.  Other web sites have hundreds of comments stating that what Michael Phelps did was okay to screaming that he should be stripped of all 14 Olympic Medals.  Others go on to say that Michael Phelps should be prosecuted in South Carolina:   I was born in SC and thank God I don’t live there anymore if that is all a sheriff has to do is ponder arresting a 23 year old celebrity based upon a photograph, that for all intents and purposes, could have been modified.  If we go to that extreme in this country, shouldn’t we impeach President Obama for his own admissions of illegal drugs?  We have far more important issues facing this great nation than to worry about what Michael Phelps is doing in his free time.  Thanks for listening, America.<br />
P.S.  Michael, listen to the great advice of Ricky Hampton.  Remember, you are not some run of the mill, Joe Blow in America.  You are in our nation’s limelight in the same way Barrack Obama is.  Thank you for making America so proud of you during the Olympics.  Now, go forth and continue to make us proud.  We all make mistakes:  Do not let your past determine who you are, but rather allow you past to determine who you will become.<br />
Mike C., Kansas City</p>
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		<title>By: theneth</title>
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		<dc:creator>theneth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I dont blame phelps for using a bong .... I mean with all that water around.  Temptaion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I dont blame phelps for using a bong &#8230;. I mean with all that water around.  Temptaion.</p>
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		<title>By: daisyraine</title>
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		<dc:creator>daisyraine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wtf ever, the guy is still a young man.  He&#039;s been training for most of his life and i don&#039;t recall anyone ever asking him if he even LIKES swimming.. most kids put into these roles just want to relax and be kids....so he smoked a little pot and had a little fun.  he&#039;s not lindsey lohan or brittney spears by a mile</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wtf ever, the guy is still a young man.  He&#8217;s been training for most of his life and i don&#8217;t recall anyone ever asking him if he even LIKES swimming.. most kids put into these roles just want to relax and be kids&#8230;.so he smoked a little pot and had a little fun.  he&#8217;s not lindsey lohan or brittney spears by a mile</p>
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		<title>By: Benk</title>
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		<dc:creator>Benk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Keep it real mike. you are showing everyone that weed is not bad. and every1 uses it</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep it real mike. you are showing everyone that weed is not bad. and every1 uses it</p>
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		<title>By: Michelle</title>
		<link>http://www.seanpercival.com/blog/2009/02/01/michael-phelps-bong-picture-exclusive/comment-page-1/#comment-7406</link>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come on, People!!!  There isn&#039;t any smoke in the bong!  Who&#039;s to say he wasn&#039;t hamming for the camera, if it&#039;s even him.  Geez, get a life and live and let live!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come on, People!!!  There isn&#8217;t any smoke in the bong!  Who&#8217;s to say he wasn&#8217;t hamming for the camera, if it&#8217;s even him.  Geez, get a life and live and let live!</p>
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		<title>By: James Dean</title>
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		<dc:creator>James Dean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s goes back to the old double standard of law for Black and White people. Now when Michael Vick had remnant&#039;s of weed in a water bottle that they claimed he threw away, people (the media) wanted to crucify him and they wasn&#039;t absolutely sure it was his(heresay). So when this guy is caught with the bong at his lips now people want to say, &quot;leave him alone&quot;.
I know this probably won&#039;t get posted but someone will read it and do like ya&#039;ll always do and that is brush it under the rug. That&#039;s why Black people don&#039;t trust white folks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s goes back to the old double standard of law for Black and White people. Now when Michael Vick had remnant&#8217;s of weed in a water bottle that they claimed he threw away, people (the media) wanted to crucify him and they wasn&#8217;t absolutely sure it was his(heresay). So when this guy is caught with the bong at his lips now people want to say, &#8220;leave him alone&#8221;.<br />
I know this probably won&#8217;t get posted but someone will read it and do like ya&#8217;ll always do and that is brush it under the rug. That&#8217;s why Black people don&#8217;t trust white folks.</p>
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		<title>By: Mandi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mandi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>that bong is a beauty! legalize bud, its funny guns and shit are legal when that shit kills people. 

michael tell everyone to fuck off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that bong is a beauty! legalize bud, its funny guns and shit are legal when that shit kills people. </p>
<p>michael tell everyone to fuck off.</p>
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