Same as Loyal.

Make the US more respected around the world instead of the joke it is now

Public works (more funding for museum, national parks, etc)

We're over half-way there on that one, I think.

Actually, I saw a pundit discussing an FDR-like program of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Our bridges and roads need serious help anwyay. It would put thousands and thousands of Americans to work. And it's spending that has to be done anyway.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... 35,00.html

Klaus Emmerich has long been a figure in Austrian television news. His journalism career spans 61 years and includes a stint as a correspondent in Washington D.C. for ORF, Austria's public television station. He is something like the Wolf Blitzer of Austria.

Or, at least, he was. Now, the respected US expert has stained his own report card with a string of blatantly racist remarks regarding the election of Barack Obama in the US. Speaking on a talk show on the Austrian public channel ORF on Wednesday, he said: "I wouldn't want the Western world to be directed by a black man. When you say that is a racist remark: right, without a doubt."
Americans are "racists, now as before, and it must be going very badly for them that they so convincingly ... send a black man, and a black, very good-looking woman, into the White House," he said.
The Austrian broadcaster distanced itself from his views, saying it was against any form of discrimination. "We have never had any comments from Mr. Emmerich which would indicate he has such opinions," Pius Strobl, head of communications at the channel told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

..Following his outburst, the moderator prevented the now-retired Emmerich from having another chance to speak, Pius said.

But Emmerich himself voiced no regret. On the contrary, he even took a harder line in subsequent interviews. Obama's victory was an "extremely disconcerting development" he told the Austrian Standard on Wednesday, because "blacks aren't as politically civilized." Meanwhile, he told Die Presse in an interview published on Friday that Obama has "a devil-like talent to present his rhetoric so effectively."

Dieter Brosz, a speaker of the Green Party, was one of many riled by the comments. He urged the channel not to give Emmerich a platform again. "Racist remarks have no place on ORF and are to be avoided."

But did you guys see this
http://www.economist.com/Vote2008/

It is pretty crazy, though obviously it has flaws but still, a remarkable feature.

Actually, I saw a pundit discussing an FDR-like program of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Our bridges and roads need serious help anwyay. It would put thousands and thousands of Americans to work. And it's spending that has to be done anyway.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

get out of Iraq
Get rid of the Patriot Act
Start to balance the budget so we can increase the value of the dollar
Take a hard stand on torture (i.e. we don't do it)
Start to scale back Gitmo


I've given up on us finding Bin Laden and I don't believe we'll see universal health care

Calm a Hurricane. Must be Cat 5 though, anyone can calm a sub Cat 5 Hurricane.