The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian: 'Will President Obama Legalize Marijuana If He Wins Reelection?'

Source:The Young Turks- President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) speaking at an international drug conference.

"Will President Obama end/minimize the war on drugs and legalize marijuana if he wins reelection? MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell thinks the president would in fact legalize or decriminalize cannabis if he wins another term. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks disagree." 

From The Young Turks

Newsflash for Cenk Uygur: Barack Hussein Obama is not just a politician, but a career politician, whose running for reelection as President of the United States, where he's looking at best a 5 point election either way, with 3-5 swing states determining who'll be President of the United States in 2013. 

My point is (and yes, there is a point) the Obama Campaign probably figured out last year, that the only way they get reelected, especially with the economy and recovery being so slow, with still so many Americans still unemployed and now living in poverty, that they have to win the Independent voters overwhelmingly. Because the Republican nominee is going to run a hard-right campaign and doing to nothing that could weaken the turnout of the Far-Right in the Republican Party. And then President Obama can say: "You might not like me, but the other side, especially with a Republican Congress, should scare the hell out of you. You have to reelect me."

While President Obama is supposedly running to the middle (like a mouse running from a cat) at the same time, The White House is going to try to appease partisan, especially left-wing Democrats (like The Young Turks) to vote for them. And talk about things like universal pre K, getting Medicare back on the table as a public option in health care reform, raising taxes on the wealthy, criminal justice reform, etc. And who knows, if Democrats retain the Senate, even with a Republican House, maybe rethinking our drug laws as well.