Steve Chapman on Election 2012, Chicago, and Pot Smoking Presidents

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Steve Chapman on Election 2012, Chicago, and Pot Smoking Presidents

"Back in '92 we had a choice between a guy that smoked pot and a guy who hadn't, and we ended up voting for the guy who had. Same choice this year," says veteran columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman.

Reason TV spoke with Chapman about his latests articles, the rise of libertarian principles, how the Tribune has changed during his 30 year career as well as tips he would give Gov. Romney to peal off Obama supporters.

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[Marshall Gill]

"Back in '92 we had a choice between a guy that smoked pot and a guy who hadn't, and we ended up voting for the guy who had. Same choice this year," says veteran columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman.

And I have dared to question if Chapman was a deep thinker!

[injanear]

I agree w/ Penn Jillette here. I'll take the guy who's never smoked pot over the guy who has, but will still allow his admin to round up smokers. Even worse, BO is an admitted former cocaine user...felony status. Oh well, he was young and besides he never got caught so who cares? No principles.

[Antiwar7]

Sorry, "peel off," not "peal off." Unless some weird act with bells is involved?

The choice is between a proven mass murderer and child killer, who says he's smoked pot, versus a wannabe mass murderer who apparently hasn't smoked pot.

F**k that! I'm voting third party.

[Dan]

How many stories can you do about legalizing weed for ***** sake. Seriously if this is the primary issue for the libertarian movement then it's become a farce.

[darius404]

I'm not sure how you can look around here, or most other libertarian sites and seriously claim that it's "the primary issue". Do you live under a rock?

[Redmanfms]

Well, it's pretty easy for non-libertarians to see it that way when you have proglodyte shitheads like Chapman and Bill Maher claiming to be libertarians because every other issue these dope-smoking frauds get behind are straight prog playbook stuff:

"'Back in '92 we had a choice between a guy that smoked pot and a guy who hadn't, and we ended up voting for the guy who had. Same choice this year,' says veteran columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman."

Fucking seriously? Eat a dick Chapman. And what libertarian worth his salt would play the political dichotomy game? Especially when both choices suck for libertarians, for essentially the same reasons.

"We" voted for Clinton? Is that like the royal "we", because none of the libertarians I know who voted in that election did. Most of them favored Perot.

[johnl]

Because defeating socialism seems much harder than defeating prohibition.

[jway]

Paranoid old men keep
marijuana illegal and
make our children LESS safe.

[Antiwar7]

O-bomb-a isn't that old.

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