(That title is bound to make many a Republican feel vindicated.)
Check this out. That gives me a total boner.
Obama is going to be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison?
You gotta be shittin' me. You run a country that sends more of its citizens to prison than any other nation on the planet ..
.. and you presidents never pay a visit?
Not even the Russians and the Chinese together send as many of their citizens to prison.
Are we really the land of the free? Doesnt look that way.
I guess this would be a good time to start. Bring your over-night bag, dawg. If you really wanna get a good feel for what it's like to live in the Land of the Free for millions of Americans.
And take Hillary with you. This way she'll be able to experience first-hand what effect the policies that she and her husband have wrought on millions of Americans. You know, those "super-predators" that she talks about.
(You look a lot like a super-predator yourself, dawg. Criminal justice .. Clinton style.)
Dude, John Oliver has a nice intro to prisons posted here. You should check it out. And also this one about Bail. And this one about Municipal Violations. And this one on Public Defenders. There are more that you need to see, but those will get you started in the right direction.
[ John Oliver is on fire. Wow. I am impressed. That is the biggest penis I have ever seen. And I have seen some big ones. Let me tell you. ]
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» How Far Will Obama's Pebble of Zen Justice Ripple Out into the Pond of American History?
Update July 19, 2015 » I am impressed. That Obama went to jail.
And I am not the only one.
I am actually wowwed.
I was impressed before, but I was wowwed when I read the following passage (near the end of this column by Peter Baker) »
Like Mrs. Clinton on Robben Island, Mr. Obama was shown a cramped cell and briefed by officials.
Then he came over to a group of us, kept in place by yellow police tape, to talk about overhauling the criminal justice system. It was basically a recitation of the same policy points he had made in a speech a couple of days earliers.
But when he started to walk away, my colleague Darlene Superville of the Associated Press, called after him, asking what struck him about the prison.
He paused, almost as if considering whether to actually say what he was thinking. Then he turned to come back. What struck him, he said, was that it could have been him in one of those cells.
He, too, had made mistakes, he said.
And were it not for the advantages of life that he had - advantages the El Reno residents did not have -
he might have been a prisoner and not a president. "There but for the grace of God," he said.
It was a strikingly personal observation, one that would be hard to imagine any other president making, even if any of them had taken the time to go to a federal prison.
This is the kind of shit that makes me proud to be an American. Not torturing little, skinny, innocent taxi drivers to death, no. Not pouring a slurry of raisins and walnuts up people's asses.
That kind of shit does not make me proud to be an American, George.
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