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| Source:Thom Hartmann- talking about marijuana legalization. |
"Thom Hartmann says legalizing pot would help President Obama win a second term and Vice President Joe Biden is just the man to get the ball rolling.
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From Thom Hartmann
I know Thom Hartmann already knows this. So I'm not even going to try to insult his intelligence on this. (Perhaps on future topics, stay tuned) But for the handful or less of people who may read this and perhaps just waking up from a political coma or have been vacationing in Afghanistan the last 5 years or so, both Joe Biden and Barack Obama are career politicians, who are up for reelection this year. They're not going to take any public positions, especially in the spring and summer this year, that can hurt their reelection campaign.
If President Obama thought that coming out in favor of marijuana legalization this year, which is overwhelmingly popular with Classical Liberals (meaning the real Liberals) and Conservative Libertarians, he would've already done that by now. Because privately, he has to be smart enough, especially with the legal background that he has, to know that the War On Drugs is a colossal failure. But publicly, he doesn't want to do anything that could cost him a majority of Independent voters who may think that legalizing, even with taxation and regulation of marijuana, could be a horrible idea.
