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Barack Obama Facebook Live
- thesis 15y agoSweet, he's campaigning again...
- hugh3 15y agoWell, they say you should stick to what you're good at.
- tsuipen 15y agoIt's called democracy for a reason.
- OstiaAntica 15y agoTechnically we are still a republic.
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- tsuipen 15y agoNo. Technically, we're a federal constitutional republic and a representative democracy. The "representative" part was implied in my previous comment.
- r00fus 15y agoI know this is all tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, isn't YC all about going outside your comfort zones? Pushing the edges? Who amongst us is born knowing they'd be successful at leading a startup? In that vein, I think Obama hit it out of the park... just, when he had his "liquidity event" he kinda stopped doing the things that made people vote for him.
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- rms 15y agoEvery single open question thing Obama gets is inundated with questions about medical marijuana, and every time he mostly ignores it...
- staunch 15y agoEducation. Healthcare. Budget. Medical marijuana. War. Energy. Which one isn't like the others?
- rhizome 15y agoThe one that isn't in the newspapers all the time anyway.
- blhack 15y agoOne of them intentionally deprives sick people of an almost completely harmless medicine that can dramatically improve their quality of life at an extremely low cost and extremely low danger relative to some of the alternatives? Haha, just kidding! All of those people with MS are just faking it because they want to get high! It totally makes sense that we should call them felons! The fact that we are deploying deadly force to stop people from obtaining medicine is something that the president shouldn't ever address because it's really not that important.
- staunch 15y agoThere are a 100 issues as important as medical marijuana that he could have addressed. So what? What he did was talk about the very biggest issues, all of which are objectively more important than medical marijuana. Have a little perspective.
- blhack 15y ago>There are a 100 issues as important as medical marijuana that he could have addressed. So what? So of those 100 issues, this specific one has come up time and time and time and time again and every single of those times he has dodged it. It's noteworthy because people pretty obviously care about it, and it's unfair of him not to address it.