Obama Offered a Joint, Shakes Hands With Man in Horse Mask

President Barack Obama hit the streets of Denver yesterday, but
he declined to take a hit.

Shortly after the president arrived for a
taxpayer-funded fundraising trip in Colorado yesterday, a
brewery patron boldly offered Obama a joint. Originally posted
here on Instagram,
the six second video shows the commander and chief laughingly
decline the opportunity.

Earlier in the day, another
Rocky Mountain local appeared in one of those
uber-creepy horse-head masks to shake hands with the president.
The New York Times‘ Doug Mills tweeted this picture
(right) showing Obama taking it in stride, but check out
this one and the mean mug on his security detail.

Regarding the president’s pool playing and beer sipping with
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper yesterday, Politico‘s
Jonathan Topaz dryly
writes that “Obama … has begun to venture out in Washington,
D.C., and interact with more average Americans,” which recalls the
satirical Onion article in which voters
lauded the president’s ability to stage a “convincing and
authentic approximation of an actual human conscience.”

Jokes aside, the president’s got a history of laughing about
marijuana, but not in a good way. Let’s not forget that the former
toker proved himself to be a big buzzkill in his first term when he
reneged on a pledge to stop raiding legal on California’s legal
dispensaries and LOL’d
at marijuana legalization advocates, dismissing the idea that legal
weed would be an economic boon for America.

Besides
repairing his own legacy, the president’s current mission
is to help members of his own party whose own political futures are
at risk. The Denver Post
explains that Rep. Cory Gardner’s reelection race “looks
to be one of the tightest in the country.”  Likewise, and
“Obama needs [Sen. Mark] Udall to win so Democrats have a fighting
chance of keeping control of the Senate.” 

Today, the president just wrapped up a
speech in Denver about middle class jobs, but apparently got

ditched by Hickenlooper. Obama will now make his way to

Texas, where he will undoubtedly have a less jocular time
dealing with the ongoing immigration crisis.