Is Obama a Belieber?

Guess we'll fuind out soon enough. It would appear that a petition on the White House website calling for the deportation of Justin Bieber has reached the 100,000 signatures that the administration says are needed for it to consider acting on a petition. Granted, the whole petition idea was stupid. To avoid having to consider really moronic petitions the White House moved the threshhold from something like 10,000 signatures (fuck, I could probably get that many) to 100,000 signatures, a tacit acknowledgement by the White House that thet whole petition idea was stupid. But now they're stuck with it, and a "Bustin' Justin" petition has hit the White House's "look at me" mark.

So now what? Well, the guy who started the petition thinks the law should be applied:

"We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture," says the petition, created by one "J.A." in Detroit on January 23, the day Bieber was busted in Miami Beach for impaired driving and illegal drag racing in a flashy Italian sports car. "We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive and drug-abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society."

Bieber, in the country on a renewable work visa, not the so-called green card -- it isn't green -- has had his legal problems lately:

Now out on bail, Bieber is due back in Miami for a court appearance on Valentine's Day, when he will also also face charges of resisting arrest and using an expired driver's license.

Police in Los Angeles are pursuing their own investigation into an earlier incident in which Bieber allegedly hurled eggs at a neighbor's house.

So, Bieber's a douche. We knew that even before he started getting arrested. But now he's getting arrested. Normally, that's a good way to get your visa revoked. Will it happen? Well, like all other Obama promises, the whole petition program isn't intended to actually accomplish anything:

But State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki cautioned that the petition program "doesn't always determine a step will be taken, it's more of another opportunity for the voices of the American people to be heard."

That's right -- it's just to make people feel like the administration is listening to them, not to provide an avenue by which the administration actually does listen to the people.

Ultimately, I don't think Bieber has to worry about deporation. Hell, Obama won't deport illegal immigrants, and Bieber is legal, so I don't think Justin needs to worry about getting sent back where he came from. That's not an Obama thing, after all.