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Simmons Under Fire for Marijuana Opposition
Posted by CN Staff on June 04, 2004 at 23:28:31 PT
By Ray Hackett
Source: Norwich Bulletin 
Norwich -- About a dozen supporters of using marijuana for medical purposes protested Friday U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons' opposition to a proposal prohibiting federal agencies from arresting such users in states that legally allow it. What they hadn't expected was drawing Simmons' personal attention. 
"As you know, there is a great debate on this issue," Simmons, R-2nd District, told the small gathering outside the Norwich Courthouse across the street from his office. "Even here in Connecticut, not everyone is in agreement on this issue, and I haven't seen the evidence yet to convince me to change my view." Simmons did, however, tell protesters that if they had compelling evidence to the contrary, he would be more than happy to review it. "I was very impressed with him being cordial, and literally coming out here," said Mark Braunstein of Quaker Hill, one of the organizers of Friday's protest. "In terms of his response, I don't think I possibly could have asked for anything more." Braunstein, a librarian at Connecticut College, suffers from a spinal chord injury sustained in a diving accident 14 years ago. He uses marijuana two or three days a week because of spasms. "It's very effective for me, especially when you compare it to the prescribed drugs and the side affects they have," he said. "And I think I'm a good example of a productive member of the community. I have a full-time job, so the marijuana does not interfere with my functioning as a productive member of the community." Friday's protest was one of about a dozen at congressional offices across the country by groups favoring the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Organizers of the nationwide effort are targeting 150 members of Congress this week, hoping to convince some to support next month's scheduled vote on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment. That amendment would effectively prohibit federal agencies from arresting individuals in states that allow the legal use of marijuana for medical reasons. Currently nine states permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Connecticut law, enacted in 1981, permits a doctor to prescribe marijuana but requires doctors and pharmacies to obtain licenses from the state Department of Consumer Protection to distribute it. No doctor or pharmacy has ever obtained such a license. "The state law bumps heads with the federal law," said Rob Rooks, executive director of the New Haven-based A Better Way Foundation, a positive drug forum that advocates for the use of marijuana for medical purposes. "We have patients' right here in Connecticut who risk incarceration everyday, and we think that's wrong." For the past five years, Rooks, Braunstein and others have lobbied state lawmakers to change the wording of the state law, replacing "prescribe" with "recommend." That change, they claim, would eliminate the conflict between the state and federal law as it now exists. So far, however, they have been unsuccessful in achieving that change. Simmons cited that as another of his own concerns in regards to the change in federal law when meeting with the protesters Friday. "The problem is," he said before joining the group on the sidewalk, "the law enforcement community doesn't support it. "And I take my lead from the state and the police chiefs. Federal agencies enforce federal laws, and I haven't seen any compelling evidence to make me want to change my mind on this." Complete Title: Simmons Under Fire for Medical Marijuana OppositionSource: Norwich Bulletin (CT)Author: Ray HackettPublished: Saturday, June 5, 2004Copyright: 2004 Norwich BulletinContact: rhackett norwichbulletin.com Website: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:A Better Way Foundationhttp://www.abwf-ct.org/The Debate: Hinchey - Rohrabacher http://freedomtoexhale.com/dofcomm.htmMedical Marijuana Protests Staged Nationwidehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18955.shtmlPatients Rally for Marijuana's Legal Use http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18943.shtmlMedical Pot Group Targets Membershttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18938.shtml
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Comment #26 posted by Jose Melendez on June 08, 2004 at 14:57:32 PT
FoM, Hope
thanks SO much.what a relief to have hope and friends of marijuana . . .
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Comment #25 posted by Jose Melendez on June 08, 2004 at 13:33:08 PT
oops
that should read:" . . . and were careful to explain they do not have full time employment, but have already shown me they are willing to expose me to opportunities to re-enroll at UMASS and videotape as many of their speakers as I can handle."
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Comment #24 posted by Jose Melendez on June 08, 2004 at 13:30:53 PT
ekim
Mike Smithson isn't sure who you are from your screen name, perhaps you could contact him? Regardless, go ahead and email me at legalize _   _ marijuana.com , sans spaces and underscores, and I'll try and reply ASAP.LEAP has made it clear there are things I can do with them, and that they will try and keep me busy for a while, and were careful to explain they do not have.I could use some more underwriting, I need an extra firewire drive, dress clothes and one of my camcorders needs a tune-up, but am very happy regardless of funds right now.Thanks!Jose
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Comment #23 posted by ekim on June 07, 2004 at 19:58:17 PT
bad to the bone jose
hey man come up to Dertoit and film Howard maybe Jack will come speak too. I will help you get a place to stay - get my email from Mike Smithson.
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on June 07, 2004 at 19:29:40 PT
Jose
Glad to know you are ok and still kickin'!
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on June 07, 2004 at 18:03:55 PT
Jose Melendez
It is a relief to hear from you. Sorry about your car trouble and inability to cross the border. Cruised your websites and tried to find a recent sign of you. You've got a lot going on. I admire your energy and determination.
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Comment #20 posted by Jose Melendez on June 07, 2004 at 16:25:51 PT
to be clear . . .
Just to confirm, I feel I have established proof that coca, poppies and cannabis are already legal, that laws prohibiting the access to raw generic and living herbs were illegally enacted after lies and outright prejury before Congress, and that even if I have to quit using, as I have done, successive generations must never again be exposed to such illegal, unjust and failed drug policies.Peace.JM
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Comment #19 posted by Jose Melendez on June 07, 2004 at 16:16:45 PT
thanks all
I want everyone to know that I'm touched and honored by the outpouring of requests from friends and family, all of whom seem genuinely concerned for my safety and well being.I've been away because I quit my job to start filming my documentary, called Drug War IS Crime.In the process of doing so, my car was wrecked and later the engine died near Philadelphia, after interviewing former ONDCP spokesman Bob Weiner in front of the White House and NORML's Keith Stroup.Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has since kindly assisted with some travel expenses, and has already sent me to interview Peter Christ and Jack Cole. I was also asked to interview Alison Myrden, but was turned away at the Canadian border, supposedly because I did not provide them with a birth certificate to prove U.S. citizenship.I certainly got lots of eye rolling from Customs officials on both sides of the border since I was rather candid and honest about my intention to expose drug warriors as being in violation of Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, along with both the Clayton and Sherman Antitrust Acts.Also, after several attempts from them to delay me or otherwise make my border transition difficult, they seemed to simply want me to leave and stop explaining to them and other American travelers that rather than legalize drugs, my goal is to offer amnesty to drug warriors, and vigorously prosecute those who refuse to cease and desist breaking existing relevant U.S. laws.My sincerest apologies to all for my extended absence, thanks to leap.cc I now have access to internet and many of their speakers.Please, anyone in close contact with Pot-tv or other groups capable of doing so, ask them tohelp by underwriting more of this (if I may say, rather powerful and incontrovertible) documentary.I already have acquired the first four volumes of raw footage in what was initially going to be a 13 part series, and may in fact grow to many more.While many on both sides of this issue have warned that I am 'titing at windmills', most of you here at cannabisNews.com are probably aware that our efforts to date have exceeded at least my wildest expectations, and as such, I am disinclined to stop.Furthermore, I've been contacted by several powerful individuals in regard to my run for Florida's Seventh Congressional District, and while I am only able this year to mount a vigorous write in campaign, even those opposed to my views have acknowledged or volunteered that getting my name on the 2006 ballot should not present a formidable challenge.This fact leaves me about two and a half years to develop Jose Melendez into a well recognized brand name.Please see http://voteJose.org for more on my run against John Mica, and the citizen voter workshops I have scheduled for July 4 in DeLand, FL. Also, I wish to publicly thank the many individuals associated with Robert Weiner Associates, NORML, LEAP.cc, pot-tv and cannabisNews for making this possible.Feel free to make any donations toward my efforts to (at least) those last four groups, if enough do so , perhaps I will be able to continue with this particular video project through November.Wage peace, friends.Love Jose Melendezfounder, RxPot.com
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Comment #18 posted by OverwhelmSam on June 07, 2004 at 05:59:54 PT
Let's Investigate the Representatives
Perhaps it's time to start hiring private detectives to do a little investigation into the lives of these so called representatives who are against the legalization of marijuana. The cost would be relatively inexpensive and effective for the major marijuana reform advocacy orginizations.No one is perfect. I believe for these representatives to condemn and marginalize marijuana users by the passage of ever increasingly unreasonable laws, while they're porking prostitutes at night in their office and lining their pockets with alcohol and pharmaceutical "donations" is hypocritical and unethical. This information should be shared with the public around election time. I'm sure the public would eat it up, and the major media outlets would be all over it.And, it's legal.
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Comment #17 posted by E_Johnson on June 06, 2004 at 09:40:45 PT
Hope, yes life can do that
That's happened to me, finding myself in the middle of some mess, realizing in a funny way that I had literally asked for it at some point in the past.I guess that's why we have all these fairy tales about getting three wishes that all backfire.Simmons just made a wish. I hope it doesn't backfire.So many of us have been there, discovering how effective marijuana can be -- the hard way.The way that involves the doctor telling you something you do NOT WANT TO HEAR!Watch what you say, Simmons, the most compelling evidence for medical marijuana is delivered in that doctor's office, not in some report from a scientist.
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Comment #16 posted by ekim on June 05, 2004 at 21:04:01 PT
no tv for us too
no mainstream media interest -- hey Morse C -- i hear you but i forgot what all that meant sorry, learing that sound was one of the hardest things i have tried. when i was handing out fliers sent by MPP what said that Congressman Vern Ehlers was not helping people with aids and cancer victims in GR MI. i camped out in front of the ch 13 tv switching truck made jokes with the set up crew and even gave pitch to head anchor lady with two of her handlers as i watched them keep moving by never asking a single question. i was interviewed by a newspaper== kind of weird while it was going on. right after him i talked to a guy that said he was in criminal justice and we chatted and he said keep going. one lady said i will be out trying to change things as soon as i retire i said it is a shame that fear is so heavy. one set of women stood out as the older dismissed me and the younger asked me for more information as she poopooed the older and was in complete agreement that this cause is just. one man was from India and i asked him do you grow this plant in your country and he said yes i asked him do they make paper and he was sayen yes and much more. i told him that WMU in Kalamazoo bills itself as the place to send your college bond child for the latest in papermaking--they never mention Hemp the product that Canada is growing and much value added goodies let alone the 30 other countries producing Hemp. 
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Comment #15 posted by Hope on June 05, 2004 at 20:25:00 PT
EJ...Comment #12
I sincerely believe you could be right. Not because God plays hideous tricks on us or anything...but we get what we ask for sometimes in ways we didn't see coming.
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Comment #14 posted by global_warming on June 05, 2004 at 15:26:54 PT
Checking In or Out??
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Reagan-Alzheimers.html"No one knows exactly what causes Alzheimer's, although aging is the biggest known risk factor. The number of people with the disease doubles every five years after age 65. Beyond 85, nearly half have it.""It is an especially democratic illness that has taken prominent people from all walks of life, including former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, singer Perry Como, actress Rita Hayworth and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.The disease begins in parts of the brain that regulate memory and thinking skills, but eventually it spreads to other areas. This attack on the brain can be fatal, although victims often die first of other things. The disease typically lasts for eight to 10 years, although some die much sooner or live as long as 20 years."I wonder if one forgets to inhale? Nice post GCW, old Ronny Raygun is gone, but the US still seems to be controlled by those funny hat narcos, and good old Simmons says "The problem is," he said before joining the group on the sidewalk, "the law enforcement community doesn't support it.
And I take my lead from the state and the police chiefs. Federal agencies enforce federal laws, and I haven't seen any compelling evidence to make me want to change my mind on this." Yup Mr.Simmons, keep locking them up, your ratings are shooting through the roof...such a wretch..I am aware that the narco mentallity will someday fade into the mulch that will herald new flowers in a new days morn, but in the meantime, with all my compassion, these critters sure make life difficult.If there is a God, I cannot imagine that God wants us, little people to kill each other, even if there is no God, the universe is exploding with wonder, there is so much to learn and explore, there is treasure unimaginable, there are new worlds to find and the embrace of such new wonders, should occupy even the lowest minds.
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Comment #13 posted by dididadadidit on June 05, 2004 at 14:28:26 PT
Albuquerque Demonstration
I'd estimate about twenty picketers showed up in downtown Albuquerque outside Congresswoman Heather Wilson (Rep-NM)office. Excellent speakers, recorded by local university, no mainstream media interest. I did deliver a letter and cd with a 70 some page bibliography on medical research.Heather voted no along with 207 other Repugnacans last summer and I suspect only massive loses this fall in the house and senate will have any chance of starting them on a reexamination of their love of pain and punishment. From where do we get these people? Feeling like I have been urinating into the wind, I did try with the following submission to Ms. Wilson. Dear Representative Wilson:A year has passed since I sent a FAX urging your yes vote on the Hinchey/Rohrabacher amendment last summer. Little has changed since. Public poll support for medical marijuana continues to run in the 70 to 80% range, more and more states are recognizing this, and then there is the all knowing federal nanny, denying any medical value (a whopping lie, see accompanying disk for dozens of studies indicating otherwise) and attempting through the current administration to subvert “states rights” on the issue with their own brand of police state tactics (see Rosenthal trial comments in last years resubmitted FAX).Why are the Republicans so out of step on this? Where is the compassion in a conservative Republican vote of 208 to 16 against limited medical use (only the states that have opted for it)? The Democrats were over two to one in favor at 135 to 65. In other words, Dems were about 70% in favor to the Reps at 93% against. Quite obviously, the Dems are beginning to read the polls and undercut whatever compassion label the Reps may try to claim for themselves.Please, reconsider your vote when this comes up again. Don’t stick the Republican party with the image of being for states rights only when the state restricts freedoms, and then against states rights when the state seeks to expand freedoms. Let the spirit of Barry Goldwater shine through. Take the cover that Reps do not have to out stupid Dems on drugs in order to be electable as indicated by Governors Johnson and Erlich and Representatives Rohrabacher, Ron Paul, and even Dennis Hassert (3 of the 16 yes votes last year).This issue will not be a make or break in the campaign unless it is razor thin. Should it come down to the wire, why fly in the face of polls overwhelmingly against your no vote of last year? Listen to the hustings, not just the allure of big Pharma. Big Pharma has the money, but the votes are with the hustings.Sincerely?
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Comment #12 posted by E_Johnson on June 05, 2004 at 12:19:35 PT
Be careful, Simmons, God might be listening
By far the most convincing evidence that medical marijuana works is when you get cancer and have to have chemo and need it to stay alive.All of these people asking for more convincing evidence ought to be worried that God might decide to give them some.
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Comment #11 posted by RasAric on June 05, 2004 at 10:39:00 PT
Simmons did, however, tell protesters that if they
Simmons did, however, tell protesters that if they had compelling evidence to the contrary, he would be more than happy to review it.This is PURE BS. This guy obviously has ZERO interest in listening to the protesters. He looks at them as "POTHEADS". Besides, all the compelling evidence he would listen to is coming from scientists and there is plenty of it.His ONLY interest is in forcing his personal beliefs upon others. This mentality amongst politicians in America equals TREASON; plain and simple. 
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on June 05, 2004 at 09:04:19 PT
ekim
I was wondering if he is ok too. He could be too busy to comment. 
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Comment #9 posted by ekim on June 05, 2004 at 08:34:43 PT
Jose ck in allready
one of the first things that we did at camp was count off and have a buddy for swiming. man this is war and the same should hold true. i hate to post my email cause i get flooded with spam. but i do think about all here.
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on June 05, 2004 at 08:13:59 PT
News Brief from KVIA - TV ABC Channel 7
Woman Leads Demonstration on Medicinal Marijuana Ban 
Published: June 5, 2004
 
There are currently nine states that allow the use of medical marijuana. Texas is not one of them, so Deitra Lied, of El Paso, helped organize a demonstration on Friday to protest the ban. The demonstration in Downtown El Paso was coordinated with a nationwide effort organized by medical marijuana advocates.   Lied said U-S Representative Silvestre Reyes from El Paso helped vote down an amendment to legalize medical marijuana last year. "I know his heart's in the right place, but I want him to see it more as a compassionate, medical issue, not as part of the drug war," Lied said. Reyes' office states that the amendment would block the federal government from enforcing federal drug laws in states that allow the medical use of marijuana.http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=1920090&nav=AbC0NgPy
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on June 05, 2004 at 08:07:28 PT
News Brief from The Argus
Judge Says No To Drugs, Even If Doctor PrescribedSaturday, June 05, 2004 FREMONT -- A man appearing before a judge Friday morning to show the court his drug rehabilitation progress reports was ordered not to use pot even though his doctor had prescribed it. The man handed the judge a copy of a prescription stating that he was able to purchase and smoke medicinal marijuana to ease his pain for tennis elbow. After thumbing through the papers, Judge Frank Roesch said, "I don't care what your doctor says, I'm not allowing you to smoke marijuana for tennis elbow. You'll have to take Advil like everyone else." Roesch proceeded to tell the man that when he returns for his next court date, progress reports must show he has not used drugs. The man, upset by the judge's finding, said, "You'll be hearing from my physician."http://www.theargusonline.com/Stories/0,1413,83~1971~2194864,00.html
Medical Marijuana Information Links
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Comment #6 posted by Sam Adams on June 05, 2004 at 07:13:06 PT
Kap, my thought exactly
"Representative" Brown is laying it out it plain English for you: the reason medical cannabis is illegal is because here we live in a police state.I don't know what else to call it when the governors are controlled by the police instead of the population. It's not democracy, that's for damn sure.
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Comment #5 posted by yippierevolutionary on June 05, 2004 at 06:42:25 PT
Hello everyone - Simmons is my Rep
Hello everyone it's been a long time since I've posted things have been crazy here.Simmons is my Representative and I will definitely vote against him. I'm sure I could organize 10-15 of my friends to vote against him too."Theres two kinds of people in this country, the screwheads and the doomed." - Hunter ThompsonThe Charges against Simmons:
1. Support for the Screwheads and their Prohibition.
2. Support for the Screwheads and their Imperial War
3. Support for the Screwheads and their defense industry which around here means Electric boat which makes super stealthy underwater missle launching machines. When the librarian said:
"In terms of his response, I don't think I possibly could have asked for anything more."The best that I could ask for would be for Simmons to take two huge bong rips and then say "What's so illegal about that?"
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Comment #4 posted by Virgil on June 05, 2004 at 06:10:19 PT
Yep Kap, send him home
He is opposing the medical use of something that should be legal anyway. It will be easier to change the office holder than his mind. Some pollster called last week asking about some race where I did not know any of the names mentioned. When he asked what was the biggest issue in the upcoming elections, I said corruption of the entire system is by far the biggest issue. This guy needs to go. NRA
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Comment #3 posted by kaptinemo on June 05, 2004 at 04:50:58 PT:
Rep. Simmons needs to go home
*Simmons cited that as another of his own concerns in regards to the change in federal law when meeting with the protesters Friday. "The problem is," he said before joining the group on the sidewalk, "the law enforcement community doesn't support it. "And I take my lead from the state and the police chiefs. Federal agencies enforce federal laws, and I haven't seen any compelling evidence to make me want to change my mind on this." So...LEOs determine the function of democracy in this country? Rep. Simmons does not listen to his constituents? He 'takes his lead' from the very people profitting from the maintenence of the policy? Can't he recognize a 'conflict of interest' when he sees one? Evidently he can't. And ought not to be a second longer in office.
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Comment #2 posted by The GCW on June 05, 2004 at 04:42:27 PT
Reality.
It's inappropriate for Rep. Rob Simmons to make medical policy decisions according to the dictates of unionized government correction officers who profit from the historically discredited cannabis prohibition. Citizens don't support asking “the law enforcement community” which medicines they may or may not use.
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on June 05, 2004 at 03:57:01 PT
???
Is It Tough Being a Republican?It is very tough to be a Republican in 2004, because somehow, you have
to believe concurrently that:1. Jesus loves you, but shares your deep hatred of homosexuals and
Hillary Clinton.2. The United States should get out of the United Nations, but our
highest national priority is enforcing U. N. resolutions against Iraq.3."Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving
their jobs to India.4. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but
multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all humankind
without regulation.5. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a
conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers
for your recovery.6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in
speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.7. Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins, unless you someday run
for governor of California as a Republican.8. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.9. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies,
but then demand their cooperation and money.10. HMOs and insurance companies make profits and have the interest of
the public at heart.11. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing
health care to all Americans is socialism.12. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but
creationism should be taught in schools.13. It is okay that the Bush family's "Carlisle Group" has done
millions of business with the Bin Laden family.14. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him and Rumsfeld reassured
him he was our buddy, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good
guy when Cheney did business with him, but then a bad guy again when Bush
junior needed a prop for his re-election campaign as the "war president"15. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable
offense. A president lying about WMD existence, to enlist support for
an unprovoked, undeclared war and occupation, in which thousands soldiers
and civilians die, is, somehow, solid "defense" policy in a "War against
Terrorism".16. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the
Constitution, which should include "banning gay marriages and censoring the
Internet".17. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but
George Bush's Harken Oil stock trade should be sealed in his Daddy's library,
and is none of our business.18. What Bill Clinton or John Kerry did in the 1960s was of vital
national interest but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.19. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but
trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a "spirit of international
harmony".20. Affirmative Action is wrong, but that it is OK for your Daddy and
His friends (here and in Saudi Arabia) to get you to graduate from Yale
without studying much, to dodge the draft in the Texas Air National Guard, to
bail out your company Harken Oil and the Texas Rangers, to get the
Governorship of Texas and then to have the Supreme Court appoint you President of the US.21. You are a conservative, but it is OK to spend like there is no tomorrow and run up deficits that your grandchildren will have to pay, while at the same time refunding as much tax money as possible to rich people who do not need it.This illogical behavior can take a toll on a healthy mind.So if a friend of yours has been acting a bit dazed and confused
lately, be nice: he or she may be a Republican!
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