Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801856.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/...=topnews</a> Apparently Obama advisors have been compiling a list for sometime of many of the overtly damaging things Bush has done so they can quickly reverse them when he gets into office. I like where this is headed already.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne yay... big claps all round to all of you who voted for him.. I'm so happy, not just for America but the entire world!
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Yes, THANK YOU!! You see people, THIS is why we voted for the man!! You think McCain had a team of advisors overlooking all of Bush's horrible decisions and ready to overturn them once he got in office? Uh, not bloody likely .
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< You think McCain had a team of advisors overlooking all of Bush's horrible decisions and ready to overturn them once he got in office? >>> You mean, the ones he agreed with 90% of the time? <<< Uh, not bloody likely . >>> Indeed.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I am sooooo happy to be able to hold my head up again, it feels like there is hope again. Let's hope the wish list is achieved.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Just the Stem Cell reversal alone would make me a very happy boy. My blind brother got very emotional when he heard this.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Let's hope the wish list is achieved.<< Most of it shouldn't be too hard. President Obama will face numerous challenges that will take years to work on, like the economy or Iraq. But these things were largely Bush executive orders. Things like the stem-cell ban, torture, wiretapping, etc. These are things Obama can undo with another executive order.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< My blind brother got very emotional when he heard this. >>> Why would he want medical research? He should just pray harder.
Originally Posted By DAR I have one simple request of President Elect Obama and this is in relation mostly to foreign issues. If you do something, do it because it benefits the country,not because it's going to make other countries happy.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I very much look forward to a foreign policy that benefits the US. That's change I can believe in.
Originally Posted By Mr X I didn't read any comments on the torture/wiretapping stuff, though I was certainly hoping to. I've always been taught that once a government gets more power it NEVER yields it back willingly, so a step like THAT would be awesome indeed on President Elect Obama's part. On the other hand, even if he DID it wouldn't be so smart to announce it willy nilly, since it could easily embolden criminals who are plotting against America.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I have one simple request of President Elect Obama and this is in relation mostly to foreign issues. If you do something, do it because it benefits the country,not because it's going to make other countries happy.<< I don't think you have to worry about this.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster I really think the focus of Obama's first term will be on domestic issues. For the last eight years we've had a president who only cared about America when it was attacked by terrorists (not by hurricanes or economic crises, etc.). Of course Iraq and Afghanistan will be dealt with. But we are finally going to see something happen in our country.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo One can only hope Churromonster. I don't want to see the US become isolationist, because history has shown that the outcomes are bad. But the balance does need to focus on domestic restoration. A NEW New Deal perhaps?
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster From statements released by Obama's people this weak, it sounds like New Deal-like programs are being planned.
Originally Posted By Mr X Not necessarily, Sara. A lot of the setup work was done by Bush himself, crafting a far more powerful set of executive powers than ever before. A lot of it, Obama can reverse "with the stroke of a pen", as it were. Now, on the other hand, isn't that scary? I hope, hope, HOPE that one of Obamas' goals will be to restore the balance of power to its' proper levels. And I've seen some inkling of it already, which really puts a smile on my face (I'm certainly not all that optimistic though, it's a rare thing indeed when a government gives back some of its' power willingly!). "What inkling, X?" Is that what you wanted to ask? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/obamas-transition-team-wi_n_143048.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...048.html</a> ...Podesta also announced what the campaign calls the strictest, and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history. The rules, which were reported a few weeks ago by the Huffington Post, are: • Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition. • Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition. • If someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied. • If someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they are prohibited from lobbying the Administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked. • A gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests. I dunno why, but this sort of gives me a feeling it is a hint of things to come. Maybe I'm just optimistic. (I read an even cooler article about how he was going after some of the guys who were supporters of the torture and civil rights violations..but couldn't find it..it was interesting anyway)
