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The Drug Policy Reform Movement on Holder
Thursday, November 20th, 2008I polled several drug policy reform groups about Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder. The results–and my own opinion on what the nomination means–over at reason.
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Id like to be optomistic. You’re right Radley. Obama’s gonna do what he wants to do regardless. But, with these bugs buzzing in his ears who knows. Allen St. Pierre’s comments sent shivers down my spine.
Since you’re a published person, I’m sure you care more about typos and grammar errors than most. The word is CHOOSE, not CHOSE. Simple typo.
It kinda gets on my nerves the ACLU hasn’t commented of Holder. They always seem to comment when its a Republican appointee.
Radley, I really think you are letting hope get in the way of more reasoned judgment on this. I don’t take Obama’s campaign “promise” to end medical marijuana raids seriously. And, neither did McCain and the GOP, or else they would have hammered him on it and hammered Biden on the discrepancy between his and Obama’s positions.
There is nothing wrong with being hopeful and I totally agree that the appointment of the next Drug Fuhrer will be far more telling than Holder’s appointment. But, as it stands, all there seems to be is a fairly vague promise and no history of Obama taking strong stands on the issue. Given that, the relevant data point is that Obama is a politician, and one who has surrounded himself with other politicians who don’t think they are losing any votes by supporting “tough on drugs” policies and certainly won’t waste “political capital” opposing those policies.
The preliminary conclusion is that he will do nothing to change drug policy. That is the appropriate default assumption for any politician who hasn’t actually fought (not just pontificated) on this issue. He has to prove otherwise with actions.