I am thinking of running for office (Big Vanity with lights)

Myself ^ | November 4 | Moi

[Protagoras]

I disagree with 1/2 of the three planks. No sale.

[BlessedBeGod]

Prayers on the way already!

[jmc813]

Who are you a retread of?

[jmc813]

You guys both need to chill.

[MissouriConservative]

"I don't like the looks of an 80 yr old granma smoking a doobie either, but neither do I want to see her using a suppository and taking a crap on a handicapped toilet."

I'd rather have an 80 yr old grandma who uses a suppository than an 80 yr old stoned grandma behine the wheel of a car.

[Dont Mention the War]

Don't let it bother you. Sometimes I think it's jealously. For example, if you start a thread about the Presidential Debate prior to the Debate the moderator will change the title until someone well liked starts one. Not everyone is treated equal on FR.

That precise thing was done to me when I tried to start an election returns live thread. The name of the thread wasn't changed, but it was removed from any of the topics in which it had a chance of being seen. Later on "someone well-liked," as you put it, started one, it was put at the top of breaking news and ended up getting over 10,000 replies.

Try to ignore it and concentrate on the platform.

Looks like HLL did. And got results.

[Congressman Billybob]

You ran a hopeless campaign. No big deal. Most successful politicians have at least one of those on their resumes, as do I. I ran for the Baltimore City Council in 1971.

I did too little planning, not enough staffing, not enough fund-raising, and got stomped into the mud. Wrote it up in a Newsday and wire-service article in 1982 under the title "Here's to the Also-Rans."

As for your "misogynist" comment, nowhere have I suggested that women are any more likely to run hopeless campaigns than men. It is a common failing of first-time candidates.

I gather you did not come close to winning. If you had, you would have mentioned it. Then, improve your planning, your fund-raising and your staffing, and good luck next time around.

I write about campaigns to help other people run more competently than they otherwise would, by benefiting from other people's mistakes, including my own. And I do know my stuff about politics, as the article below plainly demonstrates.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest, "Roosting Chickens, and Results of the 2004 Election"

[Congressman Billybob]

I have run for office before. See earlier post to HillarysLovely Legs.

And if someone has run twice and lost twice, one begins to conclude they haven't learned what they needed to from the first experience. As Einstein noted, repeating the same experiment expecting the result will change, is not very bright.

I learned from my first loss, what I shouldn't do wrong the next time. And the first thing I learned was not to run at all unless I am prepared to run and win.

I do not jump to conclusions about people whose backgrounds I do not know. I do reach logical conclusions from available facts. I recommend both processes to you, and to all others.

Billybob

[rageaholic]

Again, that's an issue for medical doctors, not government. If somebody takes medication that impairs driving ability, the doctor orders them to refrain from driving. Beer impairs driving ability, will you campaign to bring back prohibition too?

[Manny Ortiz]

You are such a blowhard. It's really laughable.

Hey, I recomemnd you stop lying about things that can be checked with a simple mouse click.

[MissouriConservative]

"Beer impairs driving ability, will you campaign to bring back prohibition too?"


Driving will impaired by alcohol is against the law, the analogy is a little flawed. And it is an issue for government. Medical doctors do not police the streets, police officers do. A doctor can tell a patient till they are blue in the face, but a doctor cannot force a person to do what they say....police officers can and do.

Sorry, but I am against legalization of drugs period.

[Manny Ortiz]

BTW, I missed your answer to HLL's question about whether you were going to give the money back you raised for your campaign that never happened. Are you going to keep that money? Aren't there laws about such things?

(Please try to limit your response to a couple hundred of words and please direct them to the actual question. TIA.)

[Congressman Billybob]

As always, I will obey every word of federal election laws, except the 60-day ad ban which I seek to violate publicly and create a text case for the US Supreme Court. As for the rest of your comments, Dick Cheney's comment to Patrick Leahy should suffice.

Have a nice day.

Billybob

[Manny Ortiz]

Well, since you didn't FILE and therefore federal election laws do not apply it is safe to say you are KEEPING THE MONEY.

WHAT A GUY!

[rageaholic]

Sorry, but I am against legalization of drugs period.

Apparently you are against legalization of safe, non invasive medical drugs. This kind of dogmatic, unreasoned policy making will not get you elected.

DWI is against the law, regardless of the substance.

[MissouriConservative]

Pot is not a safe, non-invasive drug. Pot warps perceptions and alters reality. Pot also has a tendency to damage brain cells and slow reaction times.

Pot is not aspirin and should not be legalized.

[austingirl]

Best of luck to you.

[MissouriConservative]

If you want medical marijuana, it is already available in the form of Marinol......

* Medical marijuana already exists. It's called Marinol.

* A pharmaceutical product, Marinol, is widely available through prescription. It comes in the form of a pill and is also being studied by researchers for suitability via other delivery methods, such as an inhaler or patch. The active ingredient of Marinol is synthetic THC, which has been found to relieve the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy for cancer patients and to assist with loss of appetite with AIDS patients.

* Unlike smoked marijuana--which contains more than 400 different chemicals, including most of the hazardous chemicals found in tobacco smoke-Marinol has been studied and approved by the medical community and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation's watchdog over unsafe and harmful food and drug products. Since the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, any drug that is marketed in the United States must undergo rigorous scientific testing. The approval process mandated by this act ensures that claims of safety and therapeutic value are supported by clinical evidence and keeps unsafe, ineffective and dangerous drugs off the market.

* There are no FDA-approved medications that are smoked. For one thing, smoking is generally a poor way to deliver medicine. It is difficult to administer safe, regulated dosages of medicines in smoked form. Secondly, the harmful chemicals and carcinogens that are byproducts of smoking create entirely new health problems. There are four times the level of tar in a marijuana cigarette, for example, than in a tobacco cigarette

# Morphine, for example, has proven to be a medically valuable drug, but the FDA does not endorse the smoking of opium or heroin. Instead, scientists have extracted active ingredients from opium, which are sold as pharmaceutical products like morphine, codeine, hydrocodone or oxycodone. In a similar vein, the FDA has not approved smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes, but has approved the active ingredient-THC-in the form of scientifically regulated Marinol.

# The DEA helped facilitate the research on Marinol. The National Cancer Institute approached the DEA in the early 1980s regarding their study of THC's in relieving nausea and vomiting. As a result, the DEA facilitated the registration and provided regulatory support and guidance for the study.

# The DEA recognizes the importance of listening to science. That's why the DEA has registered seven research initiatives to continue researching the effects of smoked marijuana as medicine. For example, under one program established by the State of California, researchers are studying the potential use of marijuana and its ingredients on conditions such as multiple sclerosis and pain. At this time, however, neither the medical community nor the scientific community has found sufficient data to conclude that smoked marijuana is the best approach to dealing with these important medical issues.

# The most comprehensive, scientifically rigorous review of studies of smoked marijuana was conducted by the Institute of Medicine, an organization chartered by the National Academy of Sciences. In a report released in 1999, the Institute did not recommend the use of smoked marijuana, but did conclude that active ingredients in marijuana could be isolated and developed into a variety of pharmaceuticals, such as Marinol.

# In the meantime, the DEA is working with pain management groups, such as Last Acts, to make sure that those who need access to safe, effective pain medication can get the best medication available.

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[Congressman Billybob]

Are you illiterate as well as obnoxious? The answer to your question is in large type in front of God and everybody on the first page of my website.

Billybob

[Manny Ortiz]

I went to you website--where I notice you are still asking for money. But I didn't see whether you were going to give the money you raised back or not.

You are quite the little huckster, aren't you?