The Public gets Smoked

Based on changing the way the American people keep involved with government today, President Obama recently held an online town meeting. I think this is a great way to help get more people involved with what is going on in government, however, there has to be a little discretion or screening to the relevancy of the topics and involvement. The blog I read was by John Aravosis, a Washington DC based writer and political consultant. He has a lot of recognition as one of America’s top progressive political blogger.

The blog I read was about the recent online town meeting with President Obama and was focused on how the American public was overly zealous about the topic of legalizing medicinal marijuana. It was simply titled, Obama and marijuana. Simple and to the point and yet catchy enough to spark up anyone’s interest on the topic. I have to say that I agree with Mr. Aravosis’ view in the blog, which is not as much about the actual legalization and response from Obama, as it is about the stupidity and lack of relevance to what is going in the rest of these United States. He states how the focus of the online questions were stupidly redundant and how most of the questions seemed to lack any relevance to the categories in which they were supposed to be about.

Obama’s staff or whom ever is in charge of screening the white house website, where the questions were posted and voted upon, should be brought up to speed about how we would be better served and informed from diversity. Mr. Aravosis does a good job of relaying his opinion with a thick fog of sarcastic remarks that actually made me giggle a little. By the end of his blog I feel that most readers should have gotten his point, but in case they were to stoned, he states it very clearly.

“Now people are upset. Well too bad. It was a stupid question to ask the president of the United States.”

I would have to agree 100% with him.