USans have never believed in equity … equality is part of the myth … post-racial is so much gibberish!

Why do we continue to act surprised? There should be no surprise … we have precisely the kind of society we want. We will have no other … despite of all of the hand wringing and posturing

RG the LG

i suggest we ask, What can US governance and individual gov’ts do to deal properly or in a better way with the usage of all drugs, even the legal ones?

we cld also ask what US governance can do to eliminate sugar from food? shld manufacturers of ready-to-eat food use salt and other chemicals at al?
isn’t food the best medicine?
a good question to ask wld be, How can we better inspect incoming vehicles and people? another one wld be to ask how/where/when are drugs made and sent out on a deadly mission?

these questions are, as far as i know, not asked. Is it because of its probably widespread use by doctors, soldiers, leagl staff, pols, police, cia, fbi, et al?
if that is even partly true, poor webb is on an mission impossible. my sincere condolences to him. tnx

And then, almost in Hollywood fashion, the Pepsodent kid walked into the room (like the scene from Trading Places with Eddie Murphy) and voila!!! They had the perfect foil. He’s tall, he’s could bull shit Bill Clinton under the table, and he was smart in that kind of self absorbed sort of way that allowed him to think he was in control while taking orders from the power structure. He doesn’t really take orders. The great thing about Obama is he’s made to appease and please. He wants to learn the rules of the power structure and play the game; which is why he can never be great, just a competent plutocrat.

A billion dollar campaign and it’s done. And here we are.

As for Webb having a President . . . who will take . . . drug policy seriously, that’s debatable. Obama can overwhelm a room with the stench of bullshit and bamboozlement. He’s a master at saying all the right things and doing the wrong ones. The corporate interests who vetted and arranged Obama’s election have much to gain from the prison industrial complex (building for-profit prisons, providing goods/services to prison complex, ridding the job market of competition) and don’t give a damn about the social costs such as fact that drugs and related ills are as big a problem today as 30 years ago. We’ve seen time and again Obama’s capitulation and subservience to power players at the expense of the common good. There is no indication that this behavior will “change.”

If any reform bill get signed, read the fine print. In March, Obama ordered federal agencies to suspend Bush signing statements. A few days later, Obama attached a signing statement to a spending bill claiming he had constitutional authority to ignore several of the bills oversight provisions. Business as usual – getting over on the ignorant masses.

Don’t be too impressed with Jim Webb either. Did he turn VA blue or was it simply 8 years of a beyond incompetent administration that even old South Republicans could no longer stomach, coupled with a Republican ticket of McCain the clueless and Palin the dumbass? Further, many of Webb’s positions are more in line with the right wing -lite blue dog Dems. He’s got to show me big time some serious commitment to a dismantling of the war on drugs quagmire – a commitment that includes bucking the Messiah in Chief if need be.

Not much hope there.