Joe Klein believes in marijuana legalization. Fine. That?s not the issue of interest to me in this blog entry.
What does interest me is the way Klein responds to a president who holds the opposite view.
Had George W. Bush ?dismissed the legalization question with a simple ?No,?? Klein undoubtedly would have responded with a snide column referencing Bush?s history of alcohol abuse and rumors of past drug use.
Klein?s reaction to a ?simple no? from President Obama?
This was a rare instance of Barack Obama reacting reflexively, without attempting to think creatively, about a serious policy question.
I could make a bad joke about Joe Klein wanting to blow more than just a joint ? but I won?t.
