Hooray for Hillary

Caught having sex with goat,
Sudanese man forced to pay
bride price, keep goat as “wife.”

Hooray for Hillary Clinton! On her trip to Mexico she opened up two issues that Obama seems unwilling to deal with, or even want mentioned, at least at the moment: gun control and drug policy. She acknowledged that one of t he biggest problems involved in the Mexican drug wars is caused by the insatiable demand for illegal drugs in the U.S. And she also acknowledged that weapons, including automatic weapons, were being smuggled into Mexico from the U.S. Obama apparently does not want to confront either of these two issues. He doesn’t want to have to take on the powerful gun lobby, nor does he want to decriminalize marijuana (let alone any other drugs). But it would seem to me, as I have said several times before, that if you wish to eliminate the drug wars and the enormously expensive “war on drugs,” the best way to do that would be to decriminalize drugs and deal with them as a medical rather than a political party. As for guns, I have no problem with people owning rifles and shotguns and even handguns. I do not see any reason for ordinary citizens to possess fully automatic weapons. As far as I can see there is not argument in favor of such ownership other than the paranoid and unjustified fear of the Federal Government. If that is the justification for owning AK 47’s and other such weapons, it should also justify private ownership of tanks, howitzers, mortars, and even fighter planes. I believe this whole argument is nonsense. When the prohibition on drugs goes so far as to ban the planting of hemp it becomes utterly ridiculous. And we already know that the billions we have spent on the “war on drugs” has accomplished absolutely nothing. I understand Obama’s reluctance to confront the NRA at this moment, I do not understand his timidity on drugs (there seems to me a growing desire to decriminalize drugs, especially marijuana that would make this relatively easy to do, and would save a great deal of badly needed money. There is also in New York a move afoot to modify the draconian Rockefeller drug laws). Hillary’s public statements on these two topics indicate to me that she is not just going to toe the party line on everything. In this case she is absolutely right.

I am more and more of the opinion that not only are Republicans merely the party of “no,” they are also the party of no brains. How else can you understand some of their recent behavior? For example, today they presented their budget which, except for a massive tax cut for the wealthy, contained no other numbers. A budget without numbers? They expect anyone to take this seriously? Then we have Sarah Palin, complaining that she had no one to pray with before her VP debate, along with her usual story that the media was to blame for her defeat. Newt Gingrich, hypocrite of the century, has now warned that Obama is becoming a dictator (from communist to socialist to fascist to dictator in four easy Republican steps). Mitt Romney, who had no trouble with the unlimited borrowing of Bush, now thinks borrowing (by Obama) is terrible. Glenn Beck, that fountain of utter foolishness, criticized Obama for using a teleprompter (while he was using one himself), and claimed that Bush did not use one. I swear he does exist in another universe. And finally, Michael Steele has claimed that everything he does is well planned, including his gaffes. Why does this remind me so much of the Pink Panther? Anyway, to me, all of these statements reveal stupidity on such a truly grand scale my mind suggests to me I must not have heard them right. The possibility that anyone would take any of them seriously escapes me, but, then, we are speaking of Republicans.

LKBIQ:
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

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