TheHonestTruth
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The war on drugs is unconstitutional, its a lost war, but I wont get into that at the moment. Instead I focus on the hypocrisy of our newest up and coming "leader"...
Barack Obama is the latest member of a club of people who now readily admit to using drugs and then fail to advocate policies that reduce penalities for people caught using the the same drugs they once used and got off free of penalty. Then they went to kick the habit without needing rehab or jail time, and go on to become politicians. What a sick joke.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Barack_Obama_Drugs.htm
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs
"Junkie. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection. And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bull**** and cheap moralism. "
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 87 Aug 1, 1996
The end of his quote is promising, but this fellow will probably be another liar who supports the system of hypocrisy. I have no faith in these people. Clinton said in 2000 in a rolling stone interview he wanted to change things, but he had nothing stopping him from voicing the concern on the national stage, speaking directly to congress and to the nation.
Obama... he'll probably want to be the first black president, and he seems too pompous to try to shake things up as the first black president and wouldn't want to be the first since Jimmy Carter to advocate relaxing the ancient and draconian drug laws that have failed this nation miserably. Even though if he truly wants to represent the voiceless minorities he should advocate stopping the laws that disproportinately impact their communities.
Barack Obama is the latest member of a club of people who now readily admit to using drugs and then fail to advocate policies that reduce penalities for people caught using the the same drugs they once used and got off free of penalty. Then they went to kick the habit without needing rehab or jail time, and go on to become politicians. What a sick joke.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Barack_Obama_Drugs.htm
Understand why youngsters want to use drugs
"Junkie. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection. And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bull**** and cheap moralism. "
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 87 Aug 1, 1996
The end of his quote is promising, but this fellow will probably be another liar who supports the system of hypocrisy. I have no faith in these people. Clinton said in 2000 in a rolling stone interview he wanted to change things, but he had nothing stopping him from voicing the concern on the national stage, speaking directly to congress and to the nation.
Obama... he'll probably want to be the first black president, and he seems too pompous to try to shake things up as the first black president and wouldn't want to be the first since Jimmy Carter to advocate relaxing the ancient and draconian drug laws that have failed this nation miserably. Even though if he truly wants to represent the voiceless minorities he should advocate stopping the laws that disproportinately impact their communities.
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