Column: Pot, protestors and presidents
(04/10/03 4:00am)
I thought I was going to make it through the whole year without a rant. Sorry.
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I thought I was going to make it through the whole year without a rant. Sorry.
"We're getting ourselves into a big mess," they say, "it's not our place to liberate the rest of the world from oppression."
President George W. Bush raised some eyebrows last week during his State of the Union Address when he asked Congress "to commit $15 billion over the next five years, including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean."
Much has changed in the past few weeks; most importantly there's about to be a new Senate Majority Leader. And if you ask me, the events which led to Trent Lott's resignation were indicative not just of Lott's shortcomings, but of two major problems in the American political arena: politicians basing their stances on political calculation instead of conviction and the double standard that applies to racism in politics.
Has anyone been to the Republican National Committee's website recently? It features a hilarious Flash Movie, a cartoon showing Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt and other pro-choice advocates walking into a hospital nursery with guns and shooting a third of the babies. The ad then makes the excellent point that voting for Democrats next month is equivalent to killing babies. Truth through satire. How brilliant.