Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2012
Source: Rocky Mountain Collegian, The (Colorado State U, CO Edu)
Copyright: 2012 Rocky Mountain Collegian
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Author: Seth Stern
Note: S. Jacob Stern hopes for actual change in Washington D.C. His column
appears Mondays in the Collegian.

OBAMA'S BROKEN POT PROMISES ARE BEST COUNTERED BY RON PAUL'S 
CONSTITUTIONAL CONSISTENCY

Among the many broken promises of the 2008 campaign rests the 
widening destruction that was a key campaign promise for the eventual 
winner. Then-Sen. Obama promised in his campaign and eventually 
issued policy memorandums promising not to interfere with 
state-sanctioned medical marijuana.

I sincerely hope those of you who voted for him based on those 
promises of hope, change and transparency ---- not to mention the end 
of civil rights violations ---- have recognized the only trait the 
man carries that discriminates him from his predecessors is his skin color.

Congratulations, America; we finally have true equality when a black 
president can be just as horrible as his white predecessor. Truly, 
equality has arrived. For those of you still zealously supporting 
Comrade Zero, you haven't done enough reading.

In the history of the U.S., few presidents have violated the Bill of 
Rights and Constitution as frequently as this alleged 
former-Constitutional Law professor. I'm not a cheerleader for 
Colorado State's Political Science Department, but I learned from two 
professors more knowledgeable of the Constitution than he's 
demonstrated. Then again, it's likely he doesn't care about the 
Constitution, which seems certain.

Regardless of his hate for checks and balances, Congressional 
authority and a litany of other areas in which he has unabashedly 
disappointed his voters, the hypocrisy is what aggravates me. Not his 
- ---- he's an Illinois politician educated in the Ivy League, 
hypocrisy is his first language, but the hypocrisy of his supporters.

I continue to point to the continued failure that is the drug war as 
proof the American voter has less influence on federal legislation 
than corporate entities. In the year since I wrote about the 
contradictions of the federal alcohol and prescription painkiller 
laws compared to marijuana, the federal government not only 
reinvigorated their idiotic campaign against cannabis, but they've 
done so as a direct violation of executive policy. Want to guess why?

The president is running for reelection from 
slightly-right-of-center. He's continued the interventionist foreign 
policy of the 20th century, he attempted to extend the occupation of 
Iraq, he's going to support whatever version of SOPA Congress gives 
him as the American people slumber on and never mind the 
assassinations of American citizens.

Meanwhile, Ron Paul creeps along like the Constitutional 
Septuagenarian Ninja Turtle, not for three years, but for three 
decades of consistently calling for an end to the drug war, 
illustrating the folly of interventionist foreign policy and, with an 
eerily accurate understanding of economics you usually won't hear from him.

But this year is different ---- 2008 proved the "new media" of the 
Internet cannot be controlled by the "old media" of newspapers, TV 
and radio but the old media mirrored the new.

In 2012, young voters are realizing there is only one man in either 
party they can trust to keep his word to end draconian federal acts, 
and they are doing so almost entirely utilizing new media, as the old 
media has inexplicably failed to accurately cover the popularity of 
Paul's campaign.

Admittedly, there are complicated reasons ---- most of which revolve 
around the failure of primaries to identify the candidates most 
appealing to undecided, unregistered, third party and Independent voters.

In that specific area, Paul beats everyone. Add registered Democrats 
to the mix and he's the only Republican candidate to consistently 
beat the president in non-partisan polls. But that runs counter to 
what the GOP actually wants.

Primaries are decided by the politically active members of each 
party, then the general election starts and both candidates race to 
the center. This establishes a pattern of candidates changing 
positions like frightened rabbits, while providing as much leadership 
as the trailing end of a lemming migration.

But not my man Ron Paul ---- this weekend his and a recently 
withdrawn candidate's delegates took the majority of Colorado's 
delegates to the national convention. This isn't over, and 
consistency of message may very well upset the apple cart of empty rhetoric.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom