Obama Explains Increasing Medical Marijuana Crackdowns, Raids In 'Rolling Stone' Interview

A simple law was not needed.  Existing law explicitly gives the executive branch the power to change the scheduling of particular drugs without needing Congressional action. Obama can instruct the relevant agencies under him to take an honest look at the research and reschedule marijuana so it qualify as having legitimate medical uses. The Obama administration could easily and justifiably move marijuana to, say, schedule III, which happens to be the same schedule that synthetic THC is in, making medical marijuana legal under federal law.

So Obama is either lying or he's ignorant of the law.
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Younger Voters Shift From Obama

A liberal.
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Obama: Romney Can't Say 'Everything I've Said For The Last 6 Months, I Didn't Mean'

There would be nothing unusual, extraordinary or legally suspect about Obama doing this. The executive branch has often moved certain drugs to lower or higher schedules based on new data without Congressional involvement. In fact, multiple sitting governors have petitioned the Obama administration asking him to move marijuana to a lower schedule, so he should be aware of the flexible authority he has.

Obama is not some hapless victim whose actions on this issue are constrained by congressional law. The truth is pretty much the exact opposite. Under current law Obama effectively has the power to unilaterally make medical marijuana legal. Obama is not legally forced to wage a war on medical marijuana; it is something his administration is actively choosing to do.
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Younger Voters Shift From Obama

The only way to get a real progressive into the White House in 2016 is NOT putting Obama in in 2012.

I know you don't understand that, how that works, but there it is.  

A vote for Obama is a vote for the status quo.  For NDAA.  For increased drone strikes taking out civilians, creating more enemies for America.  For expanded wars into sovereign nations.  For more treaties like NAFTA and SKoreaAFTA, and CAFTA (union-busting, job outsourcing).  For Simpson-Bowles adoption, with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.  For more deregulation and privatization of public resources.  For more offshore drilling, with no safeguards in place.  For less food inspection.  For fracking, and nuclear plants.
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Romney can only do what Congress allows him to do.  

Everything on your list is of concern no matter which man is in the White House.  Some of those items on your list Obama has already done -- It's shocking that you don't seem to know that.

The Ryan Budget vs. Simpson-Bowles.  Why aren't Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Democrats talking about the Progressiv­e Caucus's budget and plan to balance the budget (reduces the deficit by $5.1 trillion)?  It beats Obama's AND Republican­s' plans.

As Krugman has said, the Progressiv­es' budget:

"balances the budget through higher taxes and defense cuts, plus some tougher bargaining by Medicare (and a public option to reduce the costs of the Affordable Care Act). The proposed tax hikes would fall on higher incomes, raising the cap on payroll taxes (takes care of Social Security's solvency forever)..­. and unlike the Ryan plan, it actually makes sense."

 
But Obama takes solutions that work for the People, the vast majority of Americans, off the table.  Whether it's ending Bush's tax cuts or the wars, the '14th Amendment Solution' (and it was, indeed, a legitimate option), etc., Obama kneecaps and handicaps the Democratic voters who put him and Democrats into power.  

Democratic politician­s should be beating this drum, loudly, constantly, and pushing the People's Budget instead of working off of a set of corporate lobbyists' plans.
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Younger Voters Shift From Obama

The "lesser of two evils".

That's like saying, "Would you rather die by hanging or by electric chair?"

Our response should be, "I choose not to die at all."
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More "lesser of two evils" malarkey.  

Obama isn't any kind of Democrat.  

A Democrat who governs as a Republican­, continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies and getting Republican legislatio­n through Congress isn't "better".  

With Obama, we're getting Republican policies sold to us as if they're what we wanted.  Just because the Republican Party's base is too stupid to know they should be thrilled to have Obama in the White House doesn't mean the Democratic Party's base is.  

At a time when we could be, should be, using this primary season to get a real progressiv­e, a real Democrat into the Oval Office, Obama supporters have saddled us with this Republican­-In-Democr­at's-Cloth­ing.  This Obama campaign strategy, to run out the primary clock, kick-the-c­an down the road until it's too late and Democratic voters are left with just him is Obama's formula for everything­.  It's going to saddle us with at least another 4 years of bad times, expanding wars, joblessnes­s, foreclosur­es, completely destroying the middle class and wrecking the environmen­t and civil rights.

Any Republican president doing what Obama's done would get excoriated by Obama's fans, but because he's got a 'D' after his name, they go along.  They keep Obama's numbers up and then they  play the fear-card ("The Republican­s are coming, the Republican­s are coming!").  

They've either lost their minds or they're political operatives whose livings depends on perpetrati­ng this fraud.
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