Scott Adams writes on his blog:
[Obama] is putting an American citizen in jail for 10 years to life for operating medical marijuana dispensaries in California where it is legal under state law. And I assume the President – who has a well-documented history of extensive marijuana use in his youth – is clamping down on California dispensaries for political reasons, i.e. to get reelected. What other reason could there be?
One could argue that the President is just doing his job and enforcing existing Federal laws. That’s the opposite of what he said he would do before he was elected, but lying is obviously not a firing offense for politicians.
Personally, I’d prefer death to spending the final decades of my life in prison. So while President Obama didn’t technically kill a citizen, he is certainly ruining this fellow’s life, and his family’s lives, and the lives of countless other minor drug offenders. And he is doing it to advance his career. If that’s not a firing offense, what the hell is?
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October 18, 2012 at 9:30 am
twicker
And he somehow thinks that Romney would not do the same thing?
Or, rather, that the US District Attorney in that part of California would not do the same thing when operating under the layers of Justice Dept. bureaucracy between the DA (or ADA, or whomever is actually prosecuting it) and a theoretical Pres. Romney or Pres. Ryan?
Oi …
October 18, 2012 at 9:56 am
David
There’s always Gary Johnson.
October 18, 2012 at 4:03 pm
TuringTest
That’s totally true. The same stupid result would occur regardless of who is elected. That’s why I don’t bother with voting …
October 18, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Dan Elfenbein
See “fallacies, logical” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies . Adam’s blog could be a great final exam question for students in a philosophy class.
October 19, 2012 at 9:18 am
Dan in Euroland
Obama greatly expanded the dispensary raiding of the Bush Admin. I would expect Romney’s approach to be more in line with Bush on this issue. (Political coalitions being similar.)
Even Rolling Stone has complained about Obama on this issue: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216
October 20, 2012 at 2:33 pm
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