Obama really could magically make the medical marijuana issue disappear...

[Dragonfli]

59. You don't think we are responsible for the politicians we work hard to elect?

In this case it is far more simple than you would like to pretend, our candidate has the power right now to lesson raids against sick pot smokers but chooses the opposite instead, he can all on his own, re-schedule the damn thing but would rather please big money donors that make money off of this suffering.

We chose him,
We supported him,
We are largely responsible for him getting into office,

We are therefore responsible for the politician we put there.

It did not help us any that he made a pretense during his primary that he would at least stop going after cancer grannies.
We are not responsible for lies we have not told, but we are if we parrot those lies and pretend we are blameless.

I wish you all the best as you deny any and all responsibility, I know I have been complicit, I voted for him.
Perhaps you did not, in that case I apologize but would ask, "just who did you vote for"?

I will, Goddess help me, be forced to be responsible for yet more pain when I vote for him again, I just don't pretend I don't share the guilt of this tragedy.

I DO, and it makes me want to vomit.