The president is the guest on a talk radio show. You are the next caller..you have one question. What do you ask?

Why sir are you taking my parents hard earned money, and giving it to the high school drop out crack heads of the world who are on welfare and didn’t have enough drive, initiative, and perseverance to create a living for themselves work hard. Eh? Eh?

Why are you against legalizing and utilizing marijuana?

And no doublespeak. Answer for real.

@BlahBlahBlah1010 And my question for you would be, how does it feel to be so charmed and positive you or a loved one will never, ever fall on hard times?

@Knotmyday- GQ!

Touche. But still. I think its unfair, and that Obama has no right to do that.

@BlahBlahBlah1010, welcome to the 21st century.

Bitching about welfare queens was last century. The modern conservative party bitches about socialism and threatens to secede from the union.

Incidentally, how do your parents earn their hard earned money?

Are there any cabinet officials on this site? or government employees? In every system there is, and will be, corruption to some degree. The public will never know what the true ambitions are of the government. So like everyone else should do is just deal with it, or shake the right hands.

I would ask Obama about how his family is adjusting to life in the White House.

“When do you (and your advisors) foresee the job market opening up again so my well educated, experienced and did I mention lovely wife can resume working?”

What can I and people like me do to help solve the economic, crime, and educational crisis?

Are you hiring accountants?

Why in the world did you choose Ken Salazar to head up the Department of the Interior rather than Raul Grijalva?

“Why did you feel the need to ridicule and mock the very people who helped your internet campaign become so successful? Why did you choose to respond to a vast simplification and generalization of the issue regarding marijuana, versus convening a group of intellectuals to have a serious debate about decriminalization, when we are equipped with the knowledge we have now regarding drug use, decriminalization, and the “war on drugs”?”

@dynamicduo, to which the answer would be “because I still need political capital to pass all the other shit I need to do. Wait until end of second term plz k thnx.”

“The last 8 years were a wash under George Bush. Can you get it right this time Obama?”

“So what happened to single payer health care?”

@benjaminlevi – Obama never promised single payer. He in fact said that though he favors single payer in theory, our system of employer payments is too entrenched to make single payer a feasible option. In other words, if we went after single payer, it would fail just like it did when Hillary Clinton tried to push it through in the early 90s for the same reasons…there’s just too many entrenched interests with too much money at stake to yank up our healthcare system by the roots and start over, and Obama would rather push forward legislation which he can actually get passed which will cover every American. Hell, he is still in his first 100 years and they got SCHIP through, something they’ve been trying to do for years….I’d say he’s actually taken on health care a lot more aggressively than even I expected him to.

I think he’s just in his first 100 days. Hopefully he doesn’t plan on being in the White House for 100 years. :)

‘How exactly does spending our way out of debt work?’

‘Why did you let your attorney general call us cowards?’

‘Why do you want to make a visit to a doctor or hospital like a visit to the post office or DMV?’

@Noel_S_Leitmotiv – and here’s how I suspect he’d answer those questions (or how I’d answer them if I were him).

1) If the government spends money to put people to work, the people will have more money to spend, and they WILL spend it. Their incomes are taxed as are the profits from the companies which hire them, some of that money is recovered directly. When they spend money, other businesses make more money, those businesses pay taxes on that money, and also have to hire more people to meet the increased demand, people who also pay taxes. More money is generated, more is taxed, the government recoups even more. These people spend money and the cycle continues. Economists have shown that if you just give money to a person, the government will eventually recoup 95% of it, if you however pay people to work, the government gets a return of somewhere between 300 to 400% over the long haul. So, it only makes sense to spend money to put people to work if you want to get the economy working and people spending money again, because without that, we’ll keep having more and more layoffs so businesses can just keep their doors open, but then people will by and large have less money to spend at these businesses and the cycle will spiral downward, not upward. It’s basically Economics 101.

2) Though I don’t control what the AG says, his actual quote, not taken out of context as you just did was, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards…” And though that is a choice of words which can lead to people drawing all sorts of inane and inaccurate conclusions, there is much truth in what he says. We have yet as a society to have a great discussion about race, and so we never hear about the issue until it comes back to bite us, such as the case of the Harvard professor and the Cambridge police department….a very small local incident became a huge dialogue on race because there are so many pent up issues in a society where one race treated the other as less than human for the first several hundred years of the nation’s existence.

3) I would like to make health care as accessible to everyone as the post office or DMV, perhaps more so, after all which is more of a basic human need…being healthy, getting a driver’s license or getting mail? I’d pick the first one every day and I certainly wouldn’t let the rhetoric of those who want to kill health care reform so the status quo can continue and insurers can continue to make billions off the misery of their clients, all the while seeking new and better ways to deny people the coverage they paid for, while letting nearly 50 million Americans go without health care at all and countless others go underprotected, one surgery or illness away from bankruptcy, keep me from trying to make sure every American is insured. Do you realize that 17,000 people a week in this country file bankruptcy due to medical costs? I guess given the choice between having a lucky few be able to see a doctor whenever and for whatever reason they want, and letting all Americans see a doctor when they need to, even if it means some inefficiencies and the occasional longer than desired wait (which are after all the biggest complaints about the DMV and Post Office), I’d choose the later any day.