so i'm thinking of voting republican

[Emu]

I do agree that it does seem like it was staged, but I can't say it's exploiting his handicap to push a political agenda necessarily. If he was going around saying that Republicans denied him government-sponsored health care and that's why he's in the wheelchair, then, yeah, that's exploiting a handicap, but this guy's intent, in spite of the way he went about it, was to try to get support for his form of treatment. I don't see how that's significantly different from St. Jude's using their handicapped/sick children to get money to treat them.

Edit: I'm not sure in what sense it's a "trap," either; it should only have been a trap if there were no way he could've come out of it with his integrity intact. He should've been able to answer that question with "I don't support it for reasons x, y, and z," not "I don't support it" and walk away. Shit, even if he said "I don't support medical marijuana because marijuana is illegal" it would've been a more satisfying answer. If he's confronted with that kind of situation and doesn't have the integrity to give a yes or no answer, then fuck him. Forget the method.