> I'm not sure why it exists at this point. I suppose you've got a better way to get the Obama administration to state their position on any issue you can wran

> I'm not sure why it exists at this point. I suppose you've got a better way to get the Obama administration to state their position on any issue you can wrangle 100k signatures for. It's not direct democracy exactly. It's a good system for allocating administrative time to speak to issues that are not politically expedient or important.