This will do him a lot of good with the base. Considering the way they’ve been acting during the debates. Finally! this should seal the nomination process, and allow Newt and Santorum to go back to their lobbying/historian jobs. 

If the guy in the wheelchair had been a billionaire looking for another tax break, you can bet that Romney would practically have had his tongue down the guy’s throat.

LMAO!!!

Keith Olberman “reintroduced to America” . . . . . . . . .

Come on, really? 

I love how far left wingers think that Keith Olbmerman has ANY relevance whatsover – given the dozens of people who tune in to him every night.  

When Countdown was on MSNBC, the full shows appeared promptly on iTunes/Podcasts.

Now on Current, you get crappy little snippets.   They hide behind “contracts with cable providers” but I think it’s just this pissy submarginal network struggling for each individual viewer.   Good luck with that.

Nah – Obama has already given billionaires all of the tax breaks they would ever want. 

Horrifying disease. the guy should do what he needs to do . No one will arrest him, besides, Presidents don’t arrest a lot of people.

Does Olby believe in separation of church and state? Does he know about the growing controversy of what Valerie Jarrett did at MLK’s home church on MLK Day? Even if Val may be a Dem, does he care about legality?

Jarrett’s partisan pulpit speech may have violated IRS church-state rules

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/17/jarretts-partisan-pulpit-speech-may-have-violated-irs-church-state-rules/#ixzz1jjf5OSoc

Just another case where ideology trumps reality. The Republican base doesn’t want to look at whether medical marijuana is basically harmless or whether we need to raise revenues to address our deficit. They don’t want to compare the periods when we had tougher regulations with those when we had weaker. They don’t want numbers or real-life facts when they conflict with their political beliefs. The Democrats aren’t much better, I know, but this sort of crap from Romney is absurd. Does this guy seem like a junkie who’s going to inflict harm on society because of his weed “addiction”? 

The social conservatives are pure cognitive dissonance because they want the government out of our lives except when it involves our personal behavior. Obama is a socialist dictator but gays can’t get married and sick people can’t use medical marijuana, etc. 

A very good piece of information to have. Of course, as indicated above, the base will find Romney righteous in this incident.

The Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year whether Obama wins or loses the election. The White House has already said repeatedly that it won’t extend the cuts for the wealthiest but would be willing to accept a congressional extension for people who make less. So it looks like the billionaires will be paying pre-Bush rates again soon, and so will the rest of us if House decides it would rather raise taxes on everyone than help out Obama. 

The president( Obama) as a candidate promised to maintain a hands-off approach toward pot clinics adhering to state law. At a 2007 town hall meeting in Manchester, N.H., Obama said raiding patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes “makes no sense.” At another town hall in Nashua, N.H., he said the Justice Department’s prosecution of medical marijuana users was “not a good use of our resources.” Yet the number of Justice Department raids on marijuana dispensaries has continued to rise.

Hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries were forced to close their doors after U.S. attorneys announced a crackdown on the medical cannabis industry in the Golden State. The IRS, meanwhile, has declared California pot clinics can no longer deduct salaries, rent or other operating expenses on their tax returns, rendering business unviable for many dispensaries. Now those clinics are looking for a candidate who can help them at the federal level.

First Posted: 1/6/12 04:34 PM ET 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/pot-activists-threaten-obama-2012_n_1190301.html

The President wants your votes , but he wants your money more .

I think you missed the point here.  Not only was this watched on Olberman and then repeated here (and other sites where its gaining legs) so so much for his dozen viewers…. but its not about Keith its about Romney being completely devoid of emotion at all.  Wonder if the daily show will run with this?

They are all hypocrits – that I agree with.

Republicans want a small, unintrusive government – yet they want to ban gay marriage.

Democrats want social justice – yet are fine with an overarching government intruding in our lives every day – for the common good.
Obama, by the way, is against gay marriage and has initiated one of the largest federal crackdowns on medical marijuana in California in history.

The President cares . He really seems to care ……..about the treasury .

The Bush tax cuts were set to expire in 2010, until Obama signed a bill into law extending them past the 2012 elections. 

He sold out on his principles in order to guarentee re-election.

They are called the “Obama Tax Cuts” now – he owns them.  Bush had nothing to do with the tax rates as they are set now. 

How do you go from story to another? There should be some common link. 

I saw this a few weeks ago on another website.  The crux of it was Romney was gladhanding and did answer the question, when the answer wasn’t what was desired to be heard he was asked several more times.  No matter the positions of either of the participants, there was no answer Romney could give that would be ‘the right answer’.  He answered what he believes.  Obviously, this person needs medical help, whether it be Marijuana or something his doctors have yet found, or something too expensive for him to want to pay for, or whatever, is between him and his doctors – there’s too many caveats to the situation for Romney to make a judgement on this individuals circumstances.  

Holton is a 23 year old who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), which, as he explained to Gov. Romney when he met him in New Hampshire during the 2008 presidential campaign, is a rare form of the disease. He also explained to Romney that his five doctors all recommended that he use medical marijuana, which helps to relieve his pain and stimulate his appetite, and asked if Romney, as president, would have him or his doctors arrested.

Romney :“I’m not in favor of medical marijuana being legal,”

Obama :Obama said raiding patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes “makes no sense.” At another town hall in Nashua, N.H., he said the Justice Department’s prosecution of medical marijuana users was “not a good use of our resources.”

 Pretty simple . Romey told the truth  . Obama straight up lied .

Now that Romney is the lead Republican, The liberals ( like this site ) will start there lies, deception and everything dirty to criticize him with items that have noting to do with being a good president. 

They rather see a miserable economy and a proven unqualified president stay in office then really see if we can move forward instead of a president who gives excuses on everything that fails for him.

BS…  you know that Romney even if he wanted to tell this young man that he would not arrest him that it would have been used against him in the political arena.  Now, tell me that medical marijuana laws are not abused in California, that the subject does not go deeper than this young man’s particular circumstances…..  so you can see the door that opened by this topic is a door that Romney with good cause made an attempt to avoid. Yes the optics of this video are not good but Romney in this moment was placed into a no win situation with his base.  We should have more debate on the legalization of marijuana in this country and really consider the drug laws and the lack of success of the so called drug war in this country..  

But to make political hay out of this particular clip is little more than an attempt at political assassination without giving proper dialogue to the underlying issues that caused Romney’s behavior in the clip.  But of course it is coming from Olbermann and endorsed by partisans such as yourself..  therefore it is pretty much fitting in the politics of the day.

No need to do so. The other Republican candidates pretty much laid everything out there, without the help of a single Democrat. All the Democrats have to do is replay the Republican candidates. Everything should work out fine, assuming that most of the country is not predisposed to “boo” the Golden Rule as last night’s Republican debate crowd was. But, in fairness, they did heartily cheer shooting various people.

Right, he compromised and extended them for another two years. If he extends them again, he will have compromised his principles. If he doesn’t, and he says he won’t, then I’ll give him a pass since extending the cuts for two years in the middle of an economic recovery isn’t the end of the world. 

And Bush has everything to do with the tax cuts as they are set now. Why do you think Bush wanted them to expire after he was out of office? Because he knew if his successor was a Democrat, that person could get accused of “raising taxes” on the middle class. So Bush set up Obama, and so far Obama hasn’t done the right thing, but let’s see how things play out this year. The expiration of the cuts has been the elephant in the room during all of these deficit talks. The White House knows it can walk away with the budget largely on track by simply vetoing any proposed extension. 

Obama ended DADT and has been silent about states legalizing gay marriage, so I think it’s safe to say he’s on the right side of history on that issue. I could be wrong but I believe most of the crackdown on marijuana has been from state and local police, not the feds. I know the Justice Department under Obama issued a statement a couple of years ago saying that they would not aggressively pursue prosecutions of the companies. 

But yes, there are some mixed signals and both sides are corrupt. 

But that’s a Hopeychangey™ boot on your neck! Doesn’t it feel awesome?

It either his principle or it’s not. He’s either compromised it, or he hasn’t. If it is his principle, he’s compromised it. If it isn’t, you got played. He lied.

So, Bush set Obama up back in 2003? And he placed that well timed bomb to go off after the midterm elections? Come on, pull the other one. And say it with me: “Obama Tax Cuts.”

The courts ended DADT. Obama had no choice but to sign the law that complied with the court ruling. Yay, Obama!

I wonder why the first two words in the headline are “Keith Olbermann”

Bush had them expire after he was out of office for the same reason Obama is having them expire after the 2012 election.

Plus the Obama tax cuts are not an elephant in the room – they are a red herring.  Assuming an economic growth rate of 5.0%, which is itself unrealistic, allowing the Obama tax cuts to expire would generate $230 billion a year to the treasury.  Our deficit would still be $1.1 trillion after this raise in taxes. 

He was on right side of DADT – I’ll give him that.

As for his statement a couple of years ago – he lied.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/california-medical-marijuana-cannabis-crackdown 

Tommy Christopher said :

 Unfortunately, there isn’t one for then-Sen. Barack Obama; it would be interesting to see how he would handle such a question now.

Here’s one .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUze-oYsswI

How he answered the question  , after a 12 second pause and someone whisperering in his ear was ; ” Ummmmmm…..the ummmmm…. I would not have the Justice Department prosecute or raid medical marijuana facilities . It’s not a good use of our resources .”

As to how he would answer it now , does he have any choice except to say he will continue to the IRS and U.S. attorneys continue to work at closing them .

Yet here you are trying to discredit him. Why read the article and comment? BECAUSE YOU’RE SCARED OF KEITH!!!!!

Right, gk123. For all the wailing and moaning, the vast majority of the revenue cut was from middle class and lower folks.

Letting all of the cuts expire at the end of 2012 would save $3.8 trillion over the next decade. Letting the tax cuts expire for those making more than $250,000 would save $700 billion. That would make a real dent in the $2.4 trillion in total deficit reduction envisioned in the debt limit deal.

$700 billion over 10 years for “rich” people. Which means the non-rich portion is $3.1 billion over 10 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/the-truth-about-taxes.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Perhaps because it was on his show? 

It couldn’t have been one of the billionaires you decscribe….If he was, he would have been at one of Obama’s many $40,000 per plate dinners and not talking to Romney about pot.

All Keith has to do is go to the trunk of his car and and retrieve his own supply of weed,  He could then send it to Mr. Holton and other patients and claim the expense as a “charitable gift.” 

Who is this Keith person you talk about?

Are you kidding?  This will cost him the South Carolina Primary!

So your good with a miserable economy and a proven unqualified president?

No choice.

HA!

The common link is he never pays attention to the thread,

LMAO!!!…. and the GOP wants to end the Department of Education…

Comments from you and your pals?

ROFL! LMAO! NTTAWWT! OMG!

What are you, 3?

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/20/obama-administration-requests-stay-of-dadt-injunction/

oh yes.  So many 40,0000 a plate dinners  and he is most certainly the only politician to ever host expensive fund raising dinners.  I’m sure no other politician else has ever done that!!  

well,  I tried to keep it simple for him. 

If I were one of his employees, yes, I would be scared of Keith. 

He is exactly the same as Glenn Beck – shouting idiotic things to anyone who will listen in order to garner ratings.  Though nowhere near as sucessful as Glenn Beck, he is equally disingenuous. 

After Current TV goes the way of the dodo and Air American – I wonder where he will end up? 

Romney is so far out of touch with the American people, that’s he’s even
out of touch with the people who are out of touch with the American
people….

What sort of idiot leaves weed in their trunk.

“Idiots” who are afraid that the police will search their glove compartments!

KO try to resurrect your career!

Like you have yours up Obama’s many orifices?

I’m a conservative that is for Medical Marijuana. Heck thats childs play compared to some of the pain killers they have now. 

You must be one of his 5 viewers.

I see I struck a nerve.

(Initially I didn’t think you were Stonepark, but now I see your comments are every bit as foul and self-loathing.)

Pablo, your attitude that it’s “either principle or not” is the exact kind of black-and-white thinking that has led to partisan gridlock. I’d like you to find a single president ever in the history of this country who has not compromised on major issues. A single one would do. Please find one, or give up the sanctimonious tone. Compromise is the bread and butter of politics. If Obama caves on the 2012 expiration date, then you can talk. 

Secondly, you’re right. Ending the tax cuts for everyone would mean more revenue. No one is arguing otherwise, and it may be the best course. But the Republicans like to pretend like reverting back to old rates for the wealthiest is meaningless. You yourself just made the case that it would improve gaps by $700 billion. That’s no small matter, especially considering that the GOP goes apesh*t over a few hundred thousand dollars given to NPR. 

He doesn’t have a car!

So please remind me of his excuses.  I don’t remember any excuses unless you have confused explanations with excuses. 

You are right on Mencius. 

I will give up my tiny bit of a break on my taxes if the rich guys give up theirs.  I am sure it would hurt me more than it would hurt them but I am OK with that.  And I am probably not the only one.

They are lobbying for VP.

He must keep it in his apartment, because he cannot hide it in his underwear.  He has no balls and the rest of his package is too small.  The police would arrest him walking down the street!

Medical marijuana?  Contraception?  What’s next, hair dye?  Let’s keep the focus on jobs and the economy folks… if youoca

What does that have to do with Republicans booing the Golden Rule? Thank All the Saints in Heaven no one quoted from the Sermon on the Mount. He would have surely been lynched.

Most true conservatives are. It’s the Socially Conservative John Birch core of the Republican party opposed to it.

Ok, one more time who in the hell is Keith Olbermann and why should I care if he dug up an old video?

You ARE wrong…the Feds are who are cracking down, the NTF, the IRS and banks are all wreaking MAJOR havok with some of the most regulated and best-run of the collectives in San Diego. Northern California and other places…16 years after MMJ was approved by the majority of California residents…
AND — our beloved Governor Moonbeam can’t even PLAY A GOOD LIBERAL and stand up for the rights of his people.

We knew he would come back if only to be banned again. Can’t wait to see if he starts spouting racist b.s. again. 

Winning. 

TC, are you digging deep for these kind of stories or is Team Obama handing them to you?

Is that where you keep it? You must have a lot not to stash it somewhere smart. Dealer?

Hey douche, link to my actual YT page not the listing. Thanks. More Liberty

They ought to decriminalize drugs PERIOD.

If you’re suggesting that Pres. Obama’s WORDS on the matter are more progressive because they aren’t Newt’s, you can’t truly be serious about the matter at all.

Let’s not forget the bus carrying the HS kids from California on a ski trip recently stopped in Colorado…  the cops found bunches of bags of pot and the kids all had doctor’s scripts…  so let’s keep your argument in the realm of reality..  This guy in the wheel chair was doing the famous “Gotcha Question” as he is one for whom medical marijuana is appropriate and one to whom it should not be denied…  But at the same time had Romney made comments that could have been construed to be supportive medical marijuana, images of the abuse of medical marijuana such as those HS kids would have been used to attack him, not this unfortunate young man in his wheelchair.  

Yes, dealer!  It was rough for awhile, but then Bain Capital invested on the condition that I only market to liberals.  Now I am in the 1%!

Hahaha  I have to laugh!  California has elected to both the senate and to congress some of the most progressive politicians in the country…  those who have little problem in trampling the constitution for the greater good…  Well just put that in your pipe and smoke it! Marijuana as many other things is one of those things that should be regulated by the states as delegated to them under the 10th amendment.  

“Democrats want social justice – yet are fine with an overarching government intruding in our lives every day – for the common good.”

Haha, What!?…I always hear conservatives make this claim, yet never have any example of “overarching government intruding in our lives”.

Well, like the man said, he did “answer the question.”  The people that continued to badger Romney simply didn’t like the answer!

As for my “conclusion” on the subject, Yes, I suggest that Marijuana be legalized, at least medically.  

In my youth I smoked pot, in fact beer and weed was part of the scenery of my youth.  Alcohol was legal in Wisconsin at 18 for my generation. (1978)  Hot summer nights, partying with my friends at the various sand and rock quarries that dot Wisconsin.  Playing frisbee in the park or going on the proverbial “stone cruise”…

“Bare foot girls sittin on the hood of a Dodge drinkin warm beer in the soft summer rain”

                                  Bruce Springsteen, “Jungleland”

“Back then everything was simpler and more confused”

                  James Douglas Morrison

Purveyor

Go back to Fox Nation where the likes of you feel at home.  Nobody is forcing you to come here. 

“Decriminalize” has become a pretty vapid word lately. Something may not be criminal, but it may involve police, courts, and a costly fine.

“Regulated” seems to better convey a status of victimless.

Olbermann suffers from Post-MSNBC-Syndrome and the only cure is suicide.

Someone who relied on his own deep insecurities and feelings of inadequacy to take the concepts of projection and hypocrisy to new levels for attention.  He predictably self-destructed and was banished never to be heard from again, but TC has apparently discovered him in a back alley somewhere and is hell-bent on reviving his sickness.

Typical Republican responses on this page I see. Your response to anything is attack Pres. Obama.

Unmistakable.

You need to revisit your youth once and a while.

Don’t feed the trolls.

Better than what your boy Bush lost 4.4 MILLION JOBS in his last year.  The fourth quarter of 2008 the GDP contracted at a 5.4 percent annual
pace, which had not been seen since 1983 during the Reagan Depression?  I hate to hear what you think doing awesome would be like!  Hahaha.

I guess losing 4.4 million jobs in Bush’s last year and leading us into a
recession starting in December of 2007 is good?  Obama getting us out
of the Bush recession starting in 2009, and keeping us out of the
recession ever since is bad? 

In his first year-and-a-half in the White House, GW Bush presided over a 37% decline in the stock market value…what about during Obama’s first two years?  The Dow was up 48%, the S&P 500 is up 60% and the Nasdaq up 90%.

You should be Tebowing right now for Obama….lol.  Or you can hit yourself in the face and pretend you still have Bush as president.

They cut the end of the video out – when Romney flew back over the parking lot, in a helicopter provided by Bain Capital, hooked the little stoner’s wheelchair on the left front skid and then dropped him down a nearby smokestack. A lot of people claimed that showed Romney had little imagination – since that’s the same way Bond wasted Stavros in For Your Eyes Only, but others thought it showed Romney wasn’t afraid to look outside his own circle, and consider how other people would handle things, when dealing with challenging situations.

I am a supporter of Ron Paul, and a supporter of the federal government getting out of the prohibition business.  That said, I have come to the conclusion that I can support any Republican candidate – however reluctantly – EXCEPT Mitt Romney, and I didn’t even know about this exchange.  I just have a feeling that Romney is a person who will say and do anything to get elected, and has in his other elections, and nobody has a clue what he will do if he is elected.  President Obama was such a black box at the time of his election, and I don’t like what came out of that box at all.  Hope and change has proven to be a disaster.  We don’t need any more surprises.

“I will never be so young again”

John Powers

The last line in his book: “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?”

VOLT,
That was/is an insightful comment. Thank you. Trust me, I spend much time reflecting on the past as I spent my life attempting to hold on, tightly, to my youth.

“The road of excess, leads to the palace of wisdom” William Blake

Vaya con Dios

It’s really good to see your staunch defense of Christian principles there empeor…I figured anything related to the bible, liberals would be leading the charge in a booing crowd…

Bush certainly aint my boy, but I think you are willfully ommitting certain key points to the statistics that your quoting.

The dow decline that you spoke of was both part of the cyclal recession cycle our economy used to take every eight years or so and was further compounded by 9/11.  You and I both know that the stock market steadily increase with the dow over 14,000 by 2008. Showing a similar increase to the one you spoke about wiht Obama.

Secondly, unemployment for the majority of the Bush years remained below 5% with a healthy GDP growth every year until his last year.

How GDP growth been with Obama? 

Additionally, during the last three years, the workforce has continued to shrink, and Obama has consistently failed to do anything about our deficit spending or  our non discretionary entitlement programs which you should know, are taking a larger and larger chunk of our annual revenues from one year to the next.  

So that fact that you are Tebowing to Obama after all this sits right in front of you to see, leads me to believe you need to be hit in the face to help you snap out of your trance.

I don’t know if Mr. Holton was present for this exchange, but livefreenh’s YouTube channel, here’s then Senator Obama’s response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUze-oYsswI&feature=plcp&context=C34b8837UDOEgsToPDskJvEABhaOoHxlB5BClcEKli

The poor man. As someone who also suffers from chronic pain (albeit obviously I have no right to compare my suffering to that of Clayton) I can vouch that just even the simple fact of being 80 pounds is unbelievably painful in itself, before you even add the rest. An appetite stimulent is absolutely vital; MJ is a perfect drug for this young man and it makes me so angry that such a lifeline is so difficult to obtain. Being very thin is the worst. Everything is unbelievably painful, even sitting on a well cushioned chair feels like sitting on rocks. Sleeping is difficult; requiring padding to achieve a modicum of semi comfort. Your knees rub together painfully, your hip bones rub the bed and ache constantly. My heart cried out when I heard his weight as I’ve been in the same predicament weighing a similar mass. I hope he currently is able to access plenty of mj to fulfill his requirements. Anyone that doesn’t support a drug that helps such a man live in somewhat comfort is truly heartless and I can only say I hope for their sake they never know the true agony of chronic pain. Their weak heartless constitutions couldn’t handle it. But rest assured if a similar fate befell them, they would be the first to cry out for the sweet relief of that rare pain reliever that doesn’t destroy your organs and make you even sicker in the process! Heartless hypocrites I don’t doubt they’d be!