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Glenn Greenwald Smokes Out Obama’s Dubious Sense of JusticePosted on May 8, 2012
After mischaracterizing a law governing medical marijuana distribution, the president who refused to prosecute those who led the U.S. into an indefinite war on terror told a Rolling Stone interviewer last month that he couldn’t ask the Justice Department to “turn the other way” when it comes to potential violations of medical marijuana use. Click through to Glenn Greenwald’s Salon blog to read Obama’s statement. —ARK
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By rtb61, May 23, 2012 at 12:32 am Link to this comment
Keep firing them and eventually you will get a keeper. Barack Obama has betrayed all the principles he claimed to get elected. If you can’t replace them with better than at least you can fire them to keep the rest of the liars on their toes.
Report thisCould Mitt Romney in reality actually be worse than Barack Obama, it’s hard to imagine.
In this final year of Barack Obama reign, via the Trans Pacific Treaty, he is trying to strip other countries of universal health care and trying to guarantee the US never ever gets it a true tool of the Insurance companies, something he can not blame on Republicans in the congress or senate.
By minw, May 14, 2012 at 7:15 pm Link to this comment
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Obama is triangulating on what he thinks are the right political issues, and he may win, though the race could be much closer than he thinks, or he could even lose, and by a larger margin than anyone might expect. How many times his opponent puts his silver foot in his mouth and/or continues to reveal his true intentions for the country is an open question. What is clear is that some of his staunchest supporters and smartest organizers are either sitting this one out, or will be giving it less than their best because of his disingenuousness on some of the most fundamental issues facing the nation. There is nothing the
Right Wing need say that will switch on the buttons if what he has done has switched them off.
The bottom line is that he was faced with huge problems, and while he was successful in some of his efforts and sabotaged in others, he has done nothing until very recently without the o.k. of his Wall Street Goldman Sachs overseers- notwithstanding that trickle down economics has not, and cannot, help the
Report this99%. He had the chance to be a very great President, and with his rhetoric and other gifts we wished for it and naively thought he would lead us to the “promised land”, or at least rise to the occasion. Yet, instead of the “audacity of hope” we got the “audacity of hype”, and in foreign policy a continuation of the
“audacity of rape”. Now, his greatest weakness is the lack of trust and confidence the country has in him and the concern that whoever wins, the Banks, AIPAC-Likud, and Oil Company-National Security-Military Contractors- scum all- will continue to call the shots. Both the Democrats and Republicans who so fear the Likud and other Lobbies, should now be concerned that the
great majority of people will begin to take action to see them defeated, whether in November, or their next election, and that will also mean a reopening and reexamination of 9/11 and whatever else got us here.
By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., May 9, 2012 at 2:26 am Link to this comment
@heterochromatic
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Report thisHappy to augment; glaucoma (reduces inter-ocular
pressure), chemotherapy (reduces nausea, increases appetite), multiple sclerosis (spasmodic reductions),
effective reduction and/or abstinence from alcohol
abuse. Arthritis is another area where pot can be an
effective remedy.
I would suggest that vapor is likely better than
smoke for some. As to dose; that is a very subjective
and will vary from individual, so experimintation is
called for. Given there is no reported fatal dose for
pot, it’s pretty safe to experiment for optimum dose
levels. Many of the legal versions (Marinol for one)
are not effective for many people.
If one investigates folk remedies through the ages
and many cultures, both western and eastern, there is
a wealth of information going back thousands of
years.
What I listed above are recognized by “modern”
medical studies and there is a wealth of info on the
internet. Careful investigation will reveal the wheat
from the chaff, so-to-speak. Cheers.
By heterochromatic, May 8, 2012 at 11:31 pm Link to this comment
YHX—I’m quite willing to learn and to be corrected….if you care to correct me,
but my local authority administers it only to her patients who are getting chemo
and are extraordinarily nauseated to the point where they can’t keep anything
down…and then it’s either pill or suppository.
smoke or vapor too impure and too difficult to gauge intake or uptake…..
Report thisplease correct or augment.
By marymac, May 8, 2012 at 11:17 pm Link to this comment
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Precisely because med. marijuana doesn’t hurt people.
Report thisAnd because we no longer believe the propaganda about
it. And because we MUST obey our masters, that is why
they are stepping all over the MM industry.
By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., May 8, 2012 at 8:34 pm Link to this comment
@ heterochromatic, May 8 at 1:07 pm Link to this
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““I know just a little bit about medical marijuana””
and know that it is not the most
efficacious thing available for more than one or two
applications.
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Right! Your post is evidence of that; and the rest of
your post is “factually” incorrect.
By heterochromatic, May 8, 2012 at 4:46 pm Link to this comment
restriction of marijuana started out state-by-state, but considering that the stuff
Report thiswas imported, i don’t see any 10 Am bar to federal regulation.
By PatrickHenry, May 8, 2012 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment
This is a 10th amendment issue where the Feds should butt out.
There are many more positive items with cannibis than bad.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/hemp4all.htm
Report thisBy heterochromatic, May 8, 2012 at 3:54 pm Link to this comment
Read the piece, Greenwald published an amendation after Sullivan criticized his
inaccuracy.
Report thisas for whether pot should be banned and alcohol not…... there is no good reason
other than popular misconception. excessive alcohol consumption is probably
more harmful to the mind and body.
By steve, May 8, 2012 at 2:51 pm Link to this comment
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I drove by a billboard on I-75 the other day and it
Report thissaid stop Obama, protect our constitution, blah blah
blah. This crap is all over the place around here and
This is the deep South so it wasn’t paid for by ACLU
types, this is a Tea party kind of place. The irony is
that the right wingers are getting everything they want
with this president(to the detriment of us all). They
will never love you Barry! Grow a set of stones.
By Big B, May 8, 2012 at 2:47 pm Link to this comment
OK hetero, what’s inaccurate in Greenwalds piece? (well, your version of inaccurate)
While your at it, tell me whats the difference between someone drinking everyday until their drunk, and someone blazing up every day. I don’t approve of either, but why is one legal, and one not?
Report thisBy americanme, May 8, 2012 at 2:18 pm Link to this comment
Like you dodge the truth.
Who cares?
Report thisBy heterochromatic, May 8, 2012 at 2:07 pm Link to this comment
I know just a little bit about medical marijuana and know that it is not the most
efficacious thing available for more than one or two applications.
medical marijuana is pretty much just a dodge.
Report thisBy americanme, May 8, 2012 at 1:57 pm Link to this comment
Ah, the literary critic no-neck back to give us all the rundown.
What a crock.
Obomber has no sense of justice—he’s just a weasel in a 5000 dollar suit and a suntan.
And he gives wesels and suntans BOTH a bad name.
Report thisBy heterochromatic, May 8, 2012 at 1:46 pm Link to this comment
Greenwald again prints things that he’s require to amend…....
if the dude ever calms down and composes his writings after he composes
Report thishimself, he may turn out to be less annoying and more accurate.
By berniem, May 8, 2012 at 1:28 pm Link to this comment
Boycott all elections! Is there really anyone to vote for that has not been taken by the body snatchers? There is no longer any lesser of two evils!
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