Bill Clinton says he made mass incarceration issue worse

[Gman]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/bill-clinton-1994-crime-bill/

"I signed a bill that made the problem worse," Clinton told an audience at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's annual meeting in Philadelphia. "And I want to admit i

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Well, we've got our prisons filled with millions of pot smokers.

Congrats.

[randys1]

2. Surely a republican president will admit his mistakes soon?

As bad as Bill was in some ways, you all can thank your ASS he was the president when he was.

[Gman]

6. You got that right

[mmonk]

11. Riiiiight. Surely one will.

[mucifer]

3. He contributed to so much suffering in those prisons.

I remember being so angry when I knew that was what I ended up voting for.

We shall see if President Obama will at least try to reverse some of the damage.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Obama has had 6 years.

I haven't seen anything done. The rate of murder by cop has gone up too. Holder was more pre-occupied with arresting pot-smoking grannies and protecting Wall St criminals. I expected much better from this administration.

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. If you haven't seen anything done, you haven't been paying attention.

Obama got the Fair Sentencing Act through, which reduced the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.

Oh, and Obama and Holder got the Sentencing Commission to make those changes retroactive.

Holder issued directives to federal prosecutors telling them to back off on the mandatory minimums.

Holder and Obama have asked drug war prisoners to apply for clemency, and 30,000 have done so. The first batch got their sentences commuted this week.

Holder and Obama pretty much backed off on marijuana. They are letting legalization proceed apace and things are much quieter on the medical marijuana font, too.

There is all that.

[KamaAina]

4. At least he copped to it.

Perhaps he can convince the Mrs. to undo it someday.

[Reter]

7. First answer why you signed it

If you generally supported it but then saw how bad it was and changed your mind, then I totally forgive you. I've changed my mind on lots of things too.

Now, if you opposed it but only signed it because of political reasons, that's a different story.

[Logical]

9. He was an idiot to jump on that band wagon! nt

[Gman]

10. I think he agrees with you