See, this is why I’m a cynic. It helps me to understand the world. Being a cynic, I would assume any participation in this stunt was pointless and that it was actually just a way to get administration rhetoric out in a different way.

And I would be right.

The top 1% does coke so the question doesn’t matter to the 1%ers that the phony represents.

Day after day people discover o just isn’t into them and they are shocked just shocked.

Not only are you right, but all the cynical comments posted on the prior thread (yesterday?) were completely appropriate.

This is faux ‘engagement.’ It’s a one-way propaganda street. Suspect (or is it hope) it will backfire.

It’s so pesky to have to pretend there are voters out there.

Day after day people discover o just isn’t into them and they are shocked just shocked.
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Me, I’m not shocked, anymore.

As I used to say in comments over on Kos, “Barry don’t care”. I got slammed for it but getting slammed doesn’t change the fact that Obama cared about only one thing, being the first AA prez. Nothing else ever mattered and nothing else ever will.

He’ll retire, probably after his completely undeserved re-election to dozens of corporate boards and speaking engagements around the world. He’ll retire to comfortable tens-of-millions with a do nothing legacy.

A legacy that will include a worsening economy for all but the 1%, a continuing destruction of civil rights, being the first president who killed a US citizen with no thought of the constitution or the bill or rights, completely ignoring global climate change. The list of failures for Obama is so long it isn’t even worth crying over.

We should have expected a different behaviour from Google or Osterity?

Fuck Obama. Google, too.

Barry and george jr both did blow (coke).
Seems the law is possession over 1 gram is a FELONY, weather or not you were busted .

Tell me these felons weren’t scoring a 8-ball (3.5 grams) at the least and they condemn those who use the Herb their GOD created for “meat”, meaning to be consumed often.

For many many years blacks have been the scapegoats for everything. Even today Obama is accused of not liking work. Food stamps go mostly to black people (not true). Blacks have more abortions (not true). Blacks are inferior mentally (not true). With all this going on I don’t think our first black president wants to be historically tied to legalizing drugs. I’m sure he knows the science involved with it and has even experienced using it. Still I don’t think he wants to be the first (black) president to legalize marijuana. With all the bullshit he’s had to take from the inbred hillbilly racists, I can’t say that I blame him.

I’m pretty sure Obama is saving any pot actions for when he has trouble getting re-elected, or loses.

He just loves his country so much he has to run and hide from questions from The People, that’s all. It takes a truly brave man to run so fast.

Obummer is too tied to the banks and big pharma to consider marijuana legalization. He is their whore, not ours.

With all this going on I don’t think our first black president wants to be historically tied to legalizing drugs.

I have to agree, in that the forces behind the Partnership For A Drug Free America would hammer him endlessly for exposing our children to drug dangers.

Also, no President can legalize any drug, that requires legislation being passed for the President to sign.

But, at some point Obama could direct the DEA to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I drug (no medical value – this Sch. I move was done by Bush I) to a lower classification that allows medical use, and then he could push to let states individually decide the issue of recreational use. I hope that he does this in his second term, if he gets one. No electable Republican would EVER do this.

But, one thing that I do not think that Obama is cognizant of is why so many folks on online forums push the question forward. In my view it is because of two factors: a) common sense and fairness, noting that the state sanctioned recreational drug, alcohol, is more deliterious to both the individual and society than cannabis, and, b), more obscure, but still true, Obama is probably not aware of the fact that pot was smoked at virtually all of the anti-Vietnam War rallies, which led Republicans to hate the association and thus push for harsher marijuana laws, and people want that unfair curse lifted.

I cannot believe the marijuana users community in California isn’t mounting major pressure on Diane Feinstein (she’s on the ballot this round) to make some noise about the US Attnys in all CA federal court districts being on a rampage against MM dispensaries.

It’s working very well. They’ve closed almost all dispensaries in San Diego (approx 150+) in just the last few months, and the story is similar all over the state. I understand the same is underway in Colorado.

I guess the pro-MM community doesn’t have the political strength I thought they might.

Zorpo-government? Never mind protecting the legitimate expression of political thought. Let’s ignore it?

> Still I don’t think he wants to be the first (black) president
> to legalize marijuana.

Ya, much much better to be the first black president to be a complete asshole/psychopathic murderer.

Great gymnastics!

Obama is not ignoring it. In fact he has been cracking down on MM.

Fed order closure of 23 Medical Marijuana Clinics in Colorado
http://articlestosee.blogspot.com/2012/01/fed-order-closure-of-23-medical.html

Wow, great point.

We can make a lot of arguments why he should do this or that, but that point remains very valid.