The Winner of the March 26th Daily Snipe is...

pretty much half the people posting on the liberal blogs today, aside from the creators of those blogs.

You heard it, you, too, may already be a winner.

I'm keeping this one short and sweet because many other people have laid this out, including a guy I've been calling out fairly routinely, my old blog crush John at AmericaBlog.

You see, he is a member of the reality-based community on the topic of Obama laughing at a question about legalizing marijuana.

Somehow people seem to think it was mean, against his change motto, and short-sighted to laugh at the fact that in almost every category of question about the economy, there had been some sort of concerted effort to get a question, tangentially related to the economy, about marijuana to the top of every category.

Are people freaking insane? Were you all high today? Even when i'm high, i know the difference between reality and whatever today was.

No President anytime soon is going to advocate, if he wants to get re-elected, the complete legalization of marijuana. You know where a good place to start might have been??? MEDICAL MARIJUANA!

He wasn't being mean, he wasn't being glib, he was laughing at something that was funny. How in the world did so many marijuana questions make it to the top of an online question submission?

The country isn't ready for it, and this isn't a civil rights issue where you can argue that maybe someone needs to move the country forward. We should be talking about De-criminalization, but legalization is about 25 years too early and it isn't gonna start with the President. De-criminalization could save us law enforcement and prison-related money, and help restore some of the community cohesion that mass incarceration has caused. THAT would be a huge step. Let's aim for that first.

So, please. Put the honey bear back in the cabinet and don't distract the President, a man who can do multiple things at one time, with issues that are no-starters and then snipe at him for acknowledging the political silliness of the situation.