Obama Interview Ignores Marijuana Legalization Questions (Again)

What are you so afraid of, Mr. President?

As everyone is probably pretty well aware at this point, one of the most popular activities at the White House is the practice of organizing online forums for people to vote on questions for the president, getting everyone all excited about it, and then completely ignoring the vote totals and disappointing participants with predictable answers to generic questions. It happened yet again yesterday.

Although 18 out of 20 of the most popular questions submitted by voters via YouTube were about the drug war or pot, the president in his 45-minute post-State of the Union chat didn’t address a single one, including a a question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police that won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House’s “Your Interview with the President” competition.

They did, however, find the time to get the president on record about late night snacking, singing and dancing, celebrating wedding anniversaries and playing tennis.

Of course, the president has answered similar questions in the past, mocking legalization supporters on one occasion and calling it a legitimate topic for debate on another.

What the president has never done is actually answer such a question completely or intelligently. At this point, it’s rather hard to imagine that he ever will.

And so the cycle is certain to repeat itself again and again, as one web forum after another is dominated by marijuana and drug war questions that will continue to go unanswered (though some may occasionally be acknowledged and sidestepped). The “legitimate debate” to which Obama says we’re entitled is something he nonetheless refuses to actually engage in, and the frustration that drives this issue to the front of the line in every such forum will be well fed for the foreseeable future.

In the meantime, it ought to be obvious to everyone that something is very wrong when this many people keep asking the same question and the president has nothing to say.

Added by Scott Morgan on January 31, 2012.
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  • Brickeechickee

    He’s running for reelection. Now is the time to watch what one says, he needs to stay middle on contravercial topics or he will lose too many votes on either side of the debate

  • Asmithpika

    hes a shmuck

  • http://www.facebook.com/silverstorm42 Neal Feldman

    I think it would be worth 4 years of hell under the Teapublicans just to see Obummer’s lying face when he loses huge, and the data shows it is his ludicrous support for cannabis prohibition and his rabid hostility to medical cannabis that directly caused his loss.