Kinda, Sorta, Maybe Open for Questions

Al Giordano is not happy with the President-Elect Obama's execution of the first round his Open for Questions program:

The Obama staff bothered to answer just five questions: two of them in a sentence apiece, none of them in more than a single paragraph.

To just one of the top questions on drug policy - the one on legalizing marijuana - the response came without argument:

Q: "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?" S. Man, Denton

A: President-elect Obama is not in favor of the legalization of marijuana.

Big whoop. Wow, those Transition policy and website staffers really had to do some heavy lifting to craft that original phrase! Where did they come up with such fine policy prose? (Maybe they got the rocket-scientist-cum-energy-secretary to pen that one?)

I can't say that I blame him. I don't think the responses were horrible, but I was hoping that this time around we wouldn't have to grade our President on a curve.