Mitt Romney IGNORES question from medical marijuana patient in wheelchair

[FourScore]

Run time: 01:06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6UTnS6Z-A   Posted on YouTube: October 08, 2007 By YouTube Member: livefreenh Views on YouTube: 320649   Posted on DU: October 08, 2007 By DU Member: FourScore Views on DU: 3558

 

[Dr.Phool]

1. Breaking

Voters ignoring Romney.

[Colorado Progressive]

2. The look of utter false sincerity on his face warms my little heart.

He must have learned that from Bush, or maybe its just comes with the "R" after his name.

[The Wielding Truth]

12. Republican Moto - You can't live without help? Sorry.

[Colorado Progressive]

23. Notice how he looked embarrassed to have to talk to a dude in a wheelchair?

You could see the inward sigh (Oh no, not one of THEM!)

[The Wielding Truth]

27. ah....Awkward....

[TheUniverse]

3. What a douchebag.

He thinks his judgement is more important than that guys doctor.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Remember, they don't want government in charge of your healthcare.

[Bjorn Against]

24. Great point

I never tied that talking point of the GOP in with the medical marijuana issue, but it shows their hypocrisy so well. Thank you for pointing that out.

[AlinPA]

5. Romney is a slimy and arrogant candidate.

[WileEcoyote]

7. He didn't handle the question correctly

All Romney had to do was say that he wouldn't have this particular man arrested. He could even have won public relations points that way without offending his knuckle dragging core base of GOP shit heads.

[AlinPA]

13. RE: "knuckle dragging core base of GOP shit heads". I like that. nt

[WileEcoyote]

18. Thank you

That's really what they are. I've worked with these people. They seem to have a Neanderthal response to everything. White is black and blue is yellow.

They have an authoritarian attitude but will always back down if not in a position of what they feel is power.

Boss i once had was like this. Women absolutely hated him. My ex wife cringed whenever he walked by.

Die hard republicans completely lack an understanding of humanity. It's like they came from another planet. The stories i could tell you...

[bluestateguy]

6. Romney looks like the guy on the top of the wedding cake

And his flip-floppery makes John Kerry look like Harry Truman.

[Klaxon]

8. There is no room to coexist

With fucking pieces of shit like that... stupid inhuman pile of garbage...

He destroys the entire DEA argument regarding Medical Marijuana by mentioning the fact that there is LEGITIMATE MEDICAL VALUE TO CANNABIS, by snaking around to reinforce his Big Pharma buddies product... Synthetic THC..

When it is the synergy of cannabinoids found in the natural product that makes it effective... not just the THC..

If you support the war on drugs.. you toss Mitt Romneys salad willingly with gusto.



We need straight up legalization...

Or do you want to keep spending $550 dollars in taxes to keep the war on cannabis going?..(thats what you pay...each tax payer pays that)

Do you want to have to scrounge for money for SCHIP... when the TAXES on LEGALIZED Marijuana could pay for it easily... (40 billion)

Do you want your kid to lose his or her Federal funding for college eligibility because he got caught with an 1/8th??

Do you want to waste our resources on jailing sick people and normal adults for a victimless crime??

If so.. Go call Mitt Romney..

If not...

SPEAK UP!

[Mythsaje]

11. Synthetic THC, from what I understand,

is crap. It's hard on the body and doesn't even work as well as a few tokes of good bud.

The war on pot is doomed in the end. There are now sixty and seventy year old potheads out there. And even the young who don't smoke don't have the issues with it that the older generation did.

[lame54]

37. not to mention the cost.......

My son has had both...he has a lot in common with the young man in the video(dermatomyositis). I much rather he smoke a little bud than but another syn. chemical in his body. I worry constantly that the fed. goverment will ignore California law and jail him.

[Colorado Progressive]

26. Wow good point! I missed that!

He immediately suggested the expensive synthetic alternative to a natural illegal substance!

[tridim]

9. We need to get this exchange on the news somehow

But I'm sure they'll do their best to ignore it too, just like Mittens ignored the question.

[defendandprotect]

10. Ah, but you had synthetic marijuana . . . !!! Filthy little question; rarely works -- !!!

[hisownpetard]

14. In all fairness to Mitt, he did have something more important to do. He had to go

outside and tie his dog down to the top of his limo for a long 12-hr. drive
in the nice hot sun.

No wonder he has no clue of what's going on in the world - his windows are
always coated with waves of shit.

[ProfessorPlum]

15. In Romney's defense

being against medical marijuana is so illogical it's really hard to justify. So . . . no wonder he ran away.

You have to feel for these GOP candidates, having to take the most ridiculous positions and then trying not to defend them.

[Mendocino]

16. I often wonder if medical marijuana

could have saved Terri Schiavo, would the right still reject its use?

[nashville_brook]

17. are there any Dem candidates in favor of medical marijuana? other than DK?

anyone willing to put up a public defense of mmj, other than DK?

[tridim]

19. I don't think they've been asked yet, but I'd be shocked if any of them didn't support it.

It's a populist issue.

I also want to know what all our candidates think about decriminalization.

[nashville_brook]

20. i think this question should be asked, and decrim, too -- but, i doubt that ALL

our dem candidates would provide "unshocking" answers. i doubt anyone would throw the question back in anyone's face like Mittens, but, i'd expect a high degree of triangulation from all of the top three. maybe i'm a pessimist.

[tridim]

21. I think it's similar to the stem cell research question..

Where the obvious answer is "Yes, I support it". I hope I'm not proved wrong.

Of course the Repukes will use it against them.. "See Hillary|Edwards|Obama|Gore want everyone to take drugs!", but really who cares? The public already knows that medicinal pot is a good thing.

[nashville_brook]

33. i guess what gets me is that a *leader* leads and politicians follow -- ergo

i doubt we're going to see reform on the federal level. change is going to happen (if at all) in the statehouses.

[Ezlivin]

22. Just wait 'til a Romney family member has MS/SCI/AIDs/Glaucoma/Cancer

And then we'll see ol' Mitt come out swinging for medical marijuana.

I've spent 27 years in this wheelchair and I'll be damned if a politician is going to overrule my physician.

I would have least run over one of Romney's toes with my chair.

[razors edge]

25. Hypocrisy is no problem for the thugs.

They would just hide the fact that one of their own does something illegal and continue to pander to the brain dead for a vote.

How long have they known about the wide stancers in their party and said nothing?

[sallyseven]

34. His wife is reported to have MS.

She was doing very well in Utah after the olympics but he insisted that they move back to MA because he wanted to run for governor so he could run for president. Thats the kind of man romney is.

[kimmylavin]

28. What a dick.

Absolutely no reason for this ridiculous law...

[Islander Expat]

29. I think we just saw another "macaca moment"!

Spread this clip far and wide!

[rAVES]

30. mmmmm.. medical..

[bdamomma]

31. I would take that non response as a YES, I would arrest you.

Romney what a sleazy bum!!!

[DS1]

32. Instant campaign ad right there

Don't even edit it.

[pissed-off-student]

35. phony bastard

what a pric! i love how he just keeps smiling and moved on

[physioex]

36. Excellent Video.....

Expose him for the prick that he is......