Obama was LYING all along about prosecuting MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:
That has always been the odd contradiction on medicinal marijuana, that states can do whatever they please but it won't stop the FBI from picking up anyone with pot, authorized on the state level or not

Disappointing on Obama's part, though, since the political will is actually more towards legalized marijuana now than when he made that campaign promise, which also makes it a vexing decision.

Re: Obama. Much of what he's backpedaled on does bother me as a proper leftist, though some of it I understand (namely Libya. He didn't "start" that war, Kasz, that war was ongoing, and it was a ideological bind for the west to sit back and let these people who professed a wish for democracy be slaughtered by an old foe of the West, and is a necessary commitment), but like hell i'm going to vote for a Republican, or a tone-neutral libertarian, since i'm an old school statist socialist with leanings of third-way fascism, and i find libertarianism to be just as poor a choice as a more state-oriented conservatism

No he entered the US in it.  Which was even more pointless.  At least Iraq and Afghanistan had douches in power that nobody was trying to get rid of.

Libya... we could of did NOTHING and just let europe take care of it for once. 

Besides, It's not like there aren't other people getting slaughtered by enemies of the west while we do nothing.

Not really. At least not in the context of an active civil war that is something that could be intervened in readily. I mean the Burmese have been playing cat-and-mouse with the Karin and the Kachin for decades, and the Laotians have an on-again-off-again thing against the Hmong, though neither of them are really our enemies (for balance of power purposes against the Vietnamese, we're even slightly friendly with Laos), but nobody else out there is just out-and-out waging full on war against a group of their people that is professing a desire for democracy (though i'm fully aware that the Libyan Rebels in this case probably don't want democracy, or at least don't want the kind of democracy we want)

I also agree that Europe should be pulling more of the weight in there, but i disagree in that the US should have a role either way