Last week New York Congressman Anthony Weiner posted "IAmA Democrat Who Fights, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). AMA." He responded in the IAMA thread to many of the questions, but also wanted to respond on video to the top 5 voted questions. His response can be seen HERE or on the embedded video below.
Why do you unconditionally support the state of Israel? Why have you insisted in the past that the Palestinian Liberation Organization is a terrorist organization, but you let Israel slide when it kicks Palestinians out of their homes to build new settlements?
I thoroughly appreciate your hard-hitting style on the issues I agree with you on, but to me this is one of the primary unrecognized (by the U.S.) human rights crises of our day.
Thank you for your time, as I know you are a busy man. Take care.
About voting "No" to extend the Patriot Act
3. ConradVerner
Do you think its time to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes and what do you feel about the War on Drugs in general?
4. Westrunner
What's going on with Campaign Finance Reform? Is there any hope we'll see an attempt at it any time soon?
5. dbingham
First off, thank you for fighting so hard for all of us. If there were more Democrats like you, we wouldn't be in the shit we are.
As a congressional Democrat who is putting up a solid fight, you have a better understanding than any of us how this process works. A lot of us on the outside are getting pretty disappointed by President Obama's actions, but we have no understanding of the process or the give and take that accompanies those actions.
Given that you have a much better vantage point than us, how do you feel about Obama's performance so far?
Have you ever voted against your conscience because of the politics involved? What votes were they?
Since this IAMA made it all the way into our Top 10 IAMAs of All Time, we thought we'd break down what that means in terms of traffic and activity.
The Congressman's IAMA received the following:
- 2,554 total points (upvotes - downvotes)
- 4,564 total comments
- 62,887 total votes on comments
- 159,062 Pageviews
- 133,178 Unique Views
- 00:03:34 Time on Page
