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Beeblebrox
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 Your Obama Wish List There's no question that Obama probably won't be able to get everything accomplished in one term. So what is YOUR priority wish list for an Obama administration?
Mine:
His tax plan and economic reform
Health care reform
Re-banning torture and shutting down Gitmo
Withdrawing from Iraq
Restoring court oversight on wiretapping
Overturning DOMA and DADT
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| Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:06 pm |
 
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Groucho
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Catching Osama bin Laden
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| Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:51 pm |
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Chippy
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Same as Loyal.
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| Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:57 pm |
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Rev
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Chip [Bot] wrote: Same as Loyal. and also he needs to cure cancer and aids. that's all  U CAN DO IT, OBAMA!
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Tuukka
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Making Americans feel optimistic about the future and see themselves united as a nation. (of course excluding the far right nutters who will never like him anyway just out of principle)
Bringing common sense to politics with no partisanship for the sake of partisanship. Gaining respect of moderate republicans as well, and being able to work with them together to do good for the nation as a whole.
Gaining respect and admiration for USA from the rest of the world, and using the respect to handle international conflicts in logical and calm manner, to create solutions that can be permanent.
Bringing a sense of decency and honesty to american politics as a whole. Not intentionally trying to lie or mislead the voters, other politicians or other countries.
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Re: Your Obama Wish List End war in Iraq
Replace the heads of Treasury, Fed and SEC
Provide another stimulus package
Revamp the Patriot Act
Eliminate the warrantless searches
Balance the Federal Budget
Freeze any efforts at more "free trade" agreements
Drill in ANWR
Ease out of Afghanistan
Leave Pakistan, Iran and Russia alone
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misutaa
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Make the US more respected around the world instead of the joke it is now
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| Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:50 am |
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Come up with a proper energy plan
Get out of Iraq
Find Bin Ladin
Middle Class Tax cuts
Public works (more funding for museum, national parks, etc)
health care
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| Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:51 am |
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Beeblebrox
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Misutaa wrote: Make the US more respected around the world instead of the joke it is now We're over half-way there on that one, I think.
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| Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:22 am |
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Beeblebrox
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Jedi Master Carr wrote: Public works (more funding for museum, national parks, etc) 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.
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misutaa
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Beeblebrox wrote: Misutaa wrote: Make the US more respected around the world instead of the joke it is now We're over half-way there on that one, I think. hopefully, the press releases that I have read from other countries are very positive for Obama so I hope he can bring our reputation back up. On a not so related note: I just realized that Obama is not recognized by Firefox as a correctly spelled word, I except it too change soon
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Re: Your Obama Wish List 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
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| Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:27 am |
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FILMO
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Re: Your Obama Wish List For the US
Stabilize the Economy
Fix Health Care System
Get rid of that Patriot Act Stuff
Handle the debt
Change the way Americans consume
International
Get out of Iraq
Build a stronger international coalition with more troops and equipment for Afghanistan
Help fix international Economy (best by fixing own Economy)
Work more together with EU UN etc
Help to build up an new worldwide plan for enviroment protection
Theres is more.....but I guess he will be busy as hell to only achieve half of the above stuff.
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| Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:35 pm |
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Caius
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Ending (or greatly restricting) the war on drugs.
Overhaul of the tax system (simplifying things, not saying change specific tax policy)
Overhaul of the veterans administration, veteran's health care system, and grievance/benefits process.
Immigration reform (enforcement with easier path to citizenship for those here currently and to those who want to come in the future).
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Groucho
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Beeblebrox wrote: Jedi Master Carr wrote: Public works (more funding for museum, national parks, etc) 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. It would still cost less than the Iraq war. _________________Buy my books! http://michaelaventrella.com
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misutaa
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Re: Your Obama Wish List The Dark Knight wrote: Misutaa wrote: Beeblebrox wrote: Misutaa wrote: Make the US more respected around the world instead of the joke it is now We're over half-way there on that one, I think. hopefully, the press releases that I have read from other countries are very positive for Obama so I hope he can bring our reputation back up. 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." Well that isn't a good example haha. Foo is crazy. 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.
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Beeblebrox
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Cuba voted for McCain? I thought Obama was their fellow Marxist commie.
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Beeblebrox wrote: Jedi Master Carr wrote: Public works (more funding for museum, national parks, etc) 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. Our infrastructure is a mess and we need a lot fixing. I would like to see some fixes on the transportation, maybe invest in better railroads to give people alternatives to driving on the freeway. Now I am biased about Museums, and National Parks being some one in that field, but I do see him giving more money to the NPS, the Smithsonian, etc. The Government need to create more ways for people with college degrees to get jobs. Could open up positions for historians, scientists, etc.
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Jim Halpert wrote: 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
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Corpse
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Walk on water
Turn water to wine
Calm a Hurricane. Must be Cat 5 though, anyone can calm a sub Cat 5 Hurricane.
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FILMO
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Re: Your Obama Wish List oh I forgot one
-Dont get shot!
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Beeblebrox
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Corpse wrote: Calm a Hurricane. Must be Cat 5 though, anyone can calm a sub Cat 5 Hurricane. At this point, I'd settle for one who actually knew one was coming and didn't appoint an Arabian horse judge to head FEMA.
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Krem
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Playoffs in college football. Also MTV to play more music videos.
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Beeblebrox
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Re: Your Obama Wish List Is change really coming? http://www.time.com/time/politics/artic ... 66,00.htmlWASHINGTON  President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.
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Beeblebrox
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