Posted by Tina
You have to read Abe Greenwalds entertaining piece in “Commentary”…
** We were told the 2008 election was all about monumental, life-and-death questions regarding the future of the country. Did we want to be the kind of nation that sends prisoners to foreign lands to be tortured? Did we want to continue on the path of unilateral preemptive war? Did we want to keep ignoring climate change? Did we want to repair our image in the world and work with allies? Did we want to remain a domestically divided red-and-blue war zone or come together as pragmatic Americans to reaffirm our commitment to the founding fathers promise? We were told that if we collectively answered these questions wrong, there would be blood in the streets – a second civil war started by the minority of Americans who were fed up with the inequality, unilateralism, bellicosity, and division of todays America. *** Charged with so monumental a task, Obama reached out admirably to the American people and asked them for guidance. What, he wanted to know, was the greatest public concern as America struggles on the precipice of extinction? **
Legalizing Marijuana Tops Obama Online Poll, The Hill
** Last week, the website Change.gov the official website of the Obama Transition Team asked the public to provide them with a list of the top public policy questions facing America. Visitors to the site were then asked to vote on which questions should take priority for the incoming administration…the Open for Questions tool has processed over 600,000 votes from more than 10,000 people on more than 7,300 questions. *** Ironically but perhaps not surprisingly the top question for the new administration as chosen on and voted by the general public was one most politicians seem utterly unwilling to talk about. *** Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.? **
Change.gov The office of the President-elect
** Over the next few days, some of the most popular questions selected by the Change.gov community will be answered by the Transition team, and their responses will be posted here on the site. **
But will they answer number one?