10th Amendment: Libertarian Penn Jillette Attacks Obama's Hypocrisy and Drug Use

Obama smoking marijuana

Comedian, magician, and libertarian Penn Jillette came out swinging against Barack Obama. Penn is the second comedian in almost as many weeks to question Dear Leader publicly. John Lovitz was the first.

Penn's attack centers around Obama's admission of smoking marijuana and how his life would be today had he been arrested.



What troubles me about this... I think it's beyond hypocrisy. I think it's something to do with class. A lot of people have accused Obama of class warfare, but in the wrong direction. I believe this is Obama chortling with Jimmy Fallon about lower class people. Do we believe, even for a second, that if Obama had been busted for marijuana -- under the laws that he condones -- would his life have been better? If Obama had been caught with the marijuana that he says he uses, and 'maybe a little blow'... if he had been busted under his laws, he would have done hard f*cking time. And if he had done time in prison, time in federal prison, time for his 'weed' and 'a little blow,' he would not be President of the United States of America. He would not have gone to his fancy-a** college, he would not have sold books that sold millions and millions of copies and made millions and millions of dollars, he would not have a beautiful, smart wife, he would not have a great job. He would have been in f*cking prison, and it's not a god damn joke. People who smoke marijuana must be set free. It is insane to lock people up.


Rightfully so, Penn goes to the Constitution to prove the war on drugs needs to be dealt with by the states, and that federal drug laws for the most part with a few exceptions violate the 10th Amendment.

"Now, he has not left this to states' rights," Jillette posited. "As you know, medical marijuana... you can get in California, and the feds are coming in to try to stop this. States' rights don't mean jack sh*t to the Obama administration on anything except gay marriage."


Penn nails it, although I might have to disagree with him on the gay marriage issue, which like the war on drugs, Obama is now making a federal issue as we have observed over the past couple weeks.

You see, we seem to forget before the federal prohibition of marijuana names like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it. It's a part of American history.

As you can see, growing up, Obama had a total disregard for the federal prohibition of marijuana. Yet today, despite his past, he has no problem trying to tell the states what to do within their own border. That's where the tyranny begins.

By the way, Penn is neither a drinker or a pot head, but he is a libertarian.