The Obama Administration created this site to give citizens official responses to issues they care about. The Terms of Participation page claims a response will be made "in a timely fashion" to petitions that meet the signature threshold within the designated period.
Currently, some petitions have remained unanswered for over two years. The worst case is a petition to "Require all Genetically Modified Foods to be labeled as such" that met its goal on October 23, 2011. As of December 20, 2013, 790 days later, there has still been no response. This makes a mockery of the petition process.
Please commit to respond to all successful petitions within 30 days, or else post a detailed justification for the delay and thereafter post weekly updates describing your progress toward a full response.