He was on Boortz this morning. I think he said that he has changed his view, but I wasn't listening too closely.
I can respect that. It's refreshing to hear a (former) politician admit that he is capable of changing his views given new information.
Especially when taking into consideration one of the iron rules of politics and bureaucracy: "Never admit you're wrong, and never apologize."
That axiom goes a long way in explaining the asinine behavior of our government.
He was on Boortz this morning. I think he said that he has changed his view, but I wasn't listening too closely.
According to this, he seems to be coming around a bit:
"Goyette: ...but I have to assume that as a former US Attorney you’ve been kind of an oldline and maybe even a hardline drug warrior and most of us Libertarians think the drug war is foolish and folly.Barr: There’s a lot of room to work on that issue. For example, on the issue of medical marijuana and the states’ rights issues involving that. I’m very supportive of states’ rights. I am also very supportive the concept of legitimate testing for the use of medical marijuana and I’m very disappointed that the government has stood in the way of that. So there’s a lot of room there. I’m working through some of those individual liberties issues…