Obama Medical Marijuana Policies Now Worse Than Bush: DPA

David, I have to believe we will win this fight! Elmer Gantry religious posturing have resulted in immense damage to this nation and still we refuse to see why our founders put in "separation of church and state" Watch PBS "Prohibition" and go "back to the future"!

And, when you look at the list of the "prohibited", they were all pronounced "evil" or "products of Satan" which sealed the deal. I'm with JC (Jimmy Carter ;-) when he says the punishment for drug related crime should not be worse than the effects of the drug on its user! Punishment to fit the crime, how novel! But worse of all is that this new 'war' flies in the face of all scientific evidence which shows this is a drug of minor "harm" if any, so why do we continue to spend so much money on it?

I voted for him (mainly b/c Reagan wasn't even a good ACTOR) and his loss to raygun is what drove me to register as an independent -- didn't want to waste my time voting for some idiot that had no business being in office! Too bad I wasted my time/vote/effort on shrub-dark.

"the moving hand having writ, moves on"! I have a weakness for Eisenhower myself! ;-)
What we have to look at is who can move US in the right direction. Like a giant liner, the country moves slowly, but she does respond, so there is hope yet!

Until OWS matures and social media allows more direct democracy we only have two choices and I see nothing on the right that begins to appeal and their history of helping corporations oppress the country and attempting to demean them by calling peaceful Americans assembling to address their grievances to their government as is their right? What's your choice?

David, don't start to drool now! ;-) I meant "today" and "here and now". Yes, we could have an independent run, but we are where we are and while more of his right wing leanings have been paraded before our dazed eyes, I will vote for him. Else, follow the "I ain't voting til I get a 'pure' candidate" and "welcome to Tea Bag Lane'! NO! I will not willingly cooperate in a "stay home" to register your "dismay" reaction, that's 2010 & how we got the tea baggers and wound up with the "Party of No!" and their Greedy Old Pig cronies! The most 'faithful' voters are the old and those of the "born agains" who are very susceptible to the Elmer Gantry brand of persuasion which we have seen on multiple display as the "candidates" show how hypocritical their rise to power has been!

I'm not going down the path of "purity of essence" no way, no how! I will not fall for "letting the perfect be the enemy of the good". Believe me, I would rather have Obama and the dems "large & in charge" than tea baggers who want to deport me and mine as well as take away our right to vote. People who want to kill my government and it's attempts at protection/oversight of clean food, water, air and land. NO! These are not the people who want the same kind of "progress" as I do. If peaceful gatherings of a wide variety of people earns them the name of 'mob', count me in!

EEK! Obama and the dems are not 'perfect'! Run for the hills! Never vote again in your life!
I'm sorry, David, but I'm not going to continue this convo. I believe that democracy is the worst form of government that humans have ever invented, except for all the rest. I don't like sausage every day, but I will drop into the factory and maybe install cameras and mikes so I can keep up. ;-)

David, one final disagreement "for old times sakes". According to science, unless you plan to die relatively soon, there may be real options for living forever! Just think you might get to use that bomb shelter and freeze dried food! ;-) From one old fogey to another, keep your stick on the ice. We're all in this together! ;-)

David, Damn you are good "just when I'm almost out, they drag me back in", of course I am speaking of my masters, vanity and pride, to name a few. I only wish I had the linguistic skill to open your eyes to the massive scale of the fraud that has been perpetrated on the American people, I could die happy! You may call me a conspiracy nut case and I maybe am more than half-way there, but I look and I look and each time I see a organized group of wealthy elites funding candidates whose "Manchurian Candidate" like mandate is the takeover of the government of the US from within! There I shat it! It's been like a log in my throat and it feels wonderful to say it so you can point out my errors of logic and my stupidity and I can once again fall into the dream that I am a free man and I fought in the Vietnam war so that land could continue to be free, am I free???

Chimps be good at playing games and isn't that what this is? We, the people, have to out wit the Greedy Old Pigs (video game, plz!) I also have a movie plot for you: This group of 100 people are stranded on the Island and 99% of them work under the direction of the 1 because the voices in his head (could be female, little fuzzy on final details) then one day one of the 99 begins to question why he has to work while the 1 lays in the sun and gets all the hot women...I still working on the ending, but I think it might have major "redistribution of wealth" in it. Power to the chimps!

Buddy, don't let your hormones lead you too far off the path of rational thinking. I've had more than my share of "bad" luck when little dan is "small but in control"! Imagine for a moment, a future in which there is no want. All people are educated and are equal before the law. Labor is rewarded, but recognition of excess is made by the community as in our past. We shun the shop keeper who routinely has a "thumb" on the scales, why not the same with corporations? We could do it if we used the money we spend on war/death/hate/torture!