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If the author of this article agrees Obama's being an ex-smoker is not important, then why did he go on for two more paragraphs?
This is typical of the media reporting laziness that passes for journalism now. There is no story to report today, so the reporter puts in a story anyway. If there is nothing to generate heat, then let's invent something. Chris Mathews has raised this to high art, where he invents meaningless controversies even when there really is a serious story (If Hillary Clinton held a press conference today announcing the end of her candidacy, all that Mr Mathews would be able to talk about would be if her outfit showed clevage).
Or is this one of those FoxNews type stories, where something that is unimportant, but could be taken as a negative is tossed on the table, "just to ask the question": but really to get another negative in front of the public? What will we see next? A repeat of the question if Senator Obama really did attent a Fundamentalist Muslim School. (with a "but it's unimportant" tossed in to absolve the writer).
