And no, I didn’t really argue any of those things you claim I argued, but don’t let that disturb your little fantasy of a world.  I’m sure your sense of proportion, equivalency, accuracy or truth are functional there.

I think people constantly underestimate how difficult drug reform is.  The old are strongly against it and the old are coincidentally the richest, most influential and the most active voters of the nation.  And they tend to retire in Florida, which is supposed to be some kind of important ‘swingy state’ or something.  But I guess they don’t matter that much since you can ridicule them online.

Does your garbage include all the deleted ones, or just yours?

You asked for evidence that Obama is ignoring the law, and then admit that he’s done just that in regards to the torture program and Libya.

So, yes, by your own admission, Obama ignores laws, contrary to your repeated assertions.

Regarding both, you’ve made it clear that politics is what matters most of all.  More than justice, more than human decency, more than a willingness to refrain from destroying the lives of innocent people; politics is so important that those of us here complaining that Obama has destroyed the lives of innocent people whose dispensaries he’s raiding – despite his promises to the contrary – just don’t understand them.

And while I appreciate the desire to protect civilians from a mad dictator’s threats, the innocent people he might have killed would have been no more dead than the innocent people Obama is killing now.  Obama’s victims suffer no less than Qaddafi’s.

But perhaps those who have had to gather the decapitated corpses of their children – cut to pieces by U.S. helicopters (or burned alive by drones) – will take some comfort in the knowledge that their lives were destroyed by a Democrat instead of a Republican.

But, then again, they probably don’t understand politics, either.

The torture thing… yeah.  There are no real excuses, other than that of political necessity.  However that doesn’t absolve him what-so-ever of failing justice, failing America, and damaging our integrity and honor.

The Libyan strikes were most certainly illegal, and no matter how much (a lot) they’ve been ignored for the past couple of decades, Obama should have copped to it an came to Congress.  Congress were the usual batch of cowardly, sniveling children they have been of late, and didn’t do anything significant to call him on it.  I would be more concerned about the situation if it hadn’t been a complete moral no-brainer.  We had a UN resolution, an Arab league resolution, Arab economic and tactical support, Arab *military* support (though mostly symbolic), and the support of most of the world.  Most importantly, we had a mad-dog dictator who publicly said that he would go street-by-street to “crush the cockroaches”; which doesn’t sound so promising as a recipe for flowers, peace and genocide-avoidance.  If our assistance in the rebellion isn’t an ethical use of military force, I don’t know what would be.  

So scorecard: Libya, A for Awesome.  Drug War, M for mixed and PS for politically spineless.  Torture, G for Great Start and NF for No Follow-though. I still have hope, but it’s tempered with disappointment.

I think the biggest mistake BoingBoing, commenters, and MJ activists make is one of scale; thousands and thousands of dispensaries, delivery services and medical facilities are going about their daily business with few problems from local or federal government.  These raids are entirely unjust, but they are barely even *desultory* attempts at stopping the medical movement as a whole.  While driving past a dispensary the other day, I noticed a police car parked right in the parking lot in front.  ”Oh shiznit,” I thought, “things are about to go down”.Actually, as I later learned by asking a clerk from the dispensary, the owners *ask* the local police to stop by as much as possible, since they view it as a good deterrent against non-medical users.  The same clerk said they had zero concern about a raid from the local or federal authorities; the dispensary owner had been told outright by a federal investigator that if he paid his taxes (on ‘herbal treatments’ or something like) and didn’t cause a fuss, as an honest businessman he was a boon to the community. Anecdotal, but I don’t think people understand the scale of these raids.

Enough of my rebuttal comments to her have been deleted to give me the impression that she has official sanction.

You have no comments in the Pending, Spam or Deleted bins, so I have no idea what you’re on about.

Which I guess doesn’t mean she isn’t trolling, just that it seems in poor taste to troll, and then delete attempts at genuine argument.

But seems a straw-man to me.  The parties will change roles and Romney will get liberal?  That seems to be ignoring too obvious, critically important factors; Romney cannot pivot too far to the center and win, and the Republican party is getting extremer by the day and will likely continue until they suffer a massive electoral defeat when they do not have a moderate heading their ticket.

And while Romney’s has to move closer to the center for the election (and his personal politics are probably  more moderate), he will be incredibly constrained with this far-right Congress, which will only get worse if he is elected.  Have you looked at the advisor’s he’s chosen?  A lot of them are ex-Bush administration, and those are the *more* moderate of the bunch.

TL;DR I find your comment completely out of touch with reality.

Because he was running against (a) an inarticulate Mr. Magoo and (b) a recession for which exactly 0% of the blame could be assigned to him.  A department store mannequin holding a king-sized bong could have beat McCain in 2008.

http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/Nation030992.html

it’s funny that you’d defend a man who ran on an idealistic slogan of hope and change, then tut tut us boingboing readers for daring to hold the president accountable and for being idealistic.

Obama is ramping down the rate of growth of military spending: military spending is still increasing under his administration.

no President will ever reschedule cannabis because if she did too many severed heads would be found along the US Mexican border – and many of them would be US citizens