Ten Citizen Voted Ideas For Obama

Well, it looks like Change.org are the spineless wimps suspected, as is the Obama transition team, and they refused to seriously consider the most popular idea - Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana. Change.org decided it was politically more sound to just present the top 10 ideas in no particular order.

Winners of the Ideas for Change in America Competition

After 656,991 votes for 7,847 ideas, we present the top 10 ideas for change (in no particular order):

Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students
Appoint Secretary of Peace in Department of Peace and Non-Violence
Free Single Payer Health Care
Develop & Implement a National Strategy for Sustainability
Pass Marriage Equality Rights for LGBT Couples Nationwide
Make the grid green in 10 years
Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana
Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties
Save Small Business From the CPSIA
Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom

My votes (from an email sent just before voting closed) showed the actual ranking of many of these ideas.

You have voted for the following 10 ideas:

Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana (1st Place)
Health Freedom IS Our First Freedom (4th Place)
Make the grid green in 10 years (5th Place)
Pass the DREAM Act - Support Higher Education for All Students (7th Place)
Pass Marriage Equality Rights for LGBT Couples Nationwide (8th Place)
Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties (9th Place)
Develop & Implement a National Strategy for Sustainability (10th Place)
Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration (14th Place)
END CORPORATE "PERSONHOOD" (19th Place)
Restore Investments In Rail Service And Infrastructure (29th Place)