Benghazi On The Brain

Reblogged from Fredericksburg.com.

It doesn’t matter what Obama does, or what the media does, the GOP keeps screaming about Benghazi.  What happened in Benghazi was horrible, but I don’t think you can find a scandal.  Nobody in the administration wanted anyone to die.  People keep looking for something that’s not there.  

What troubles me about the president’s critics are that they want to hurt him politically a Hell of a lot more than they want information about dead Americans.  You didn’t hear them ask for an investigation on 9/11 or the invasion of Iraq where a lot more than four Americans were killed.

There’s also been some outrage over the president throwing a party for his wife’s 50th birthday and for his comments on marijuana.  He’s not the first president to have a party just like he’s not the first to take a vacation (but that doesn’t stop the critics).  

What he said about marijuana is pretty accurate.  Marijuana probably isn’t good for you and in some ways it’s worse than smoking as in it has lot more tar than your standard cigarette.  You can argue and compare long term affects of each, but marijuana is probably a lot less dangerous than alcohol in the short term.

The president says his policy on marijuana hasn’t changed.  Maybe it should change.  Rick Perry, governor of Texas, thinks it should be decriminalized.  I agree with him.  We’ve wasted too much money in the “war on drugs” and incarcerating non-violent offenders.  Being for decriminalization doesn’t mean you’re for legalizing.

That said, I think it should be legal.  We’d stop chasing people down, wasting money on courts and prison time for something that’s not going to make you more dangerous behind the wheel than a few beers.  I’ve always felt people should be left alone to do what they want to do as long as they don’t hurt anyone else with it.  This seems to be one of those issues where a lot of liberals and conservatives agree.

Personally I don’t like marijuana.  I never really did.  I think it’s boring and it makes people boring, especially those that do so much pot that all they talk about is doing pot.  People always assume I do it since it’s a stereotype for an artist and musician to do drugs. The funniest thing about that is I have never gotten a lot of flack or pressure from pot smokers for abstaining.  Most pot smokers I’ve met haven’t cared that I don’t use it and in return I don’t give them flack for it.