Did Obama forget about Poker?
When Barack Obama was running for the presidency in 2008, he consistently suggested that online poker should be legal. What’s more is that it was also frequently noted that Obama was a poker player himself and sympathized with the cause of legalizing poker. But a half year into his term people are starting to ask about what, if anything, Obama has done for poker.
So far it seems as if Barack has done nothing which is extremely unfortunate since Barney Frank is still introducing bills to Congress that call for the legalization of online poker. Now you might think that Obama has been currently focusing on the most important issues, but so far there hasn’t been a whole lot of news on him doing anything major while in office.
And I realize that the president is just a single person (though a very powerful person) who can’t be expected to single-handedly turn around the economy and handle every issue within the first 6 months. But many poker players are starting to wonder when their problem will get handled. The Poker Players Alliance is especially worried about this since they have been lobbying forever to get poker legalized.
I guess the important thing to remember is that Obama has only had 6 months in office so far and there will be more time for him to get to this issue later. However, Congress has already mentioned that it will be at least September before the House votes on the legalization of poker. I just hope that it doesn’t go any farther than that and, if it does, I’m hoping that Obama does something about it.