No Perfection in Presidential Politics

Published: August 15, 2007, 5:20 pm

Tags: 2008 democratic primary, criminal justice, the war on some classes of people who use some drugs

I've expressed my frustration before (in posts I can't seem to find right now) that none of the serious Dem. presidential candidates (apologies to Kucinich and Gravel) appear willing to take a stance against the Drug War or at least, more narrowly, against the 100-to-1 crack/cocaine sentencing disparity. I had hoped that Obama might prove me wrong. He hadn't said anything about the issue on his webpage, but given that he is in many ways more progressive that Clinton (or at least, was before he got political consultanted into oblivion) and that he has a personal history of drug use (which perhaps necessitated a harder line stance on drugs), I still had some hope.Disappointing, then to read today, via TalkLeft, that those hopes are dashed -- or at least quelled. A Boston Globe column today exposes Obama's ambivalence and equivocation with regard to drug war issues. Though the candidate easily recognized that it was wrong to implement a 100-to-1 disparity in the first place, he

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Rating: 0

Comments