Friday, November 7, 2008

What are the top five things Obama should do on his first day as president?

Forty-seven-year-old Illinois senator Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20 next year. -irish

What would you like to see him do on his first day? My thoughts are:

1) Avoid getting assassinated
[Done]


2) Close Guantanamo
[In progress, signed order to close within one year.]


3) Restore Habeas Corpus
[Unknown, but he said before elected that he wants to do it.]


4) Announce that he will form a Department of Peace.
[Kind of, H. Clinton tasked with restoring US image]


5) Announce a new nationwide alternative energy effort.
[In Progress, on the web site.]


What are your top 5?

Items in green updated 1/22/2009

7 comments:

TRO said...

1) Avoid getting assassinated

Why is it that only the left talks about him being assassinated? And what about all those death threats/internet postings/photos/drawings of Bush being assassinated that were very popular with the left? Seems the violence is on the other side, not ours.


2) Close Guantanamo

Yes, let those terrorists free. Perhaps they can come to a half-way house in your neighborhood?


3) Restore Habeas Corpus.

As a law enforcement officer I can attest that we never lost it. Seriously, we do have to produce the body.

4) Announce that he will form a Department of Peace.

What does a Department of Peace do exactly? Do Iran/North Korea/China/Russia each have one we can work with? Will its Offocial Seal have a Unicorn and marshmallow clouds on it?

5) Announce a new nationwide alternative energy effort.

Didn't he already do that? It was called bankrupting the coal industry I think.

Ann said...

Indict Bush and Cheney for crimes against humanity, for lying to the American people and to the US Congress and ... .

And, Rowe for outing an US intelligence officer and ... .

Obama hater said...

Obama will make this country go bankrupt far quicker than bush ever screwed up. Hell he spent 170m on his inauguration alone while bush only spent 40m. Obama needs to cancel these bailouts first of all. He needs to let businesses fail and let the crooks go out of business that started this mess in the first place. The country needs to start over not go at the same pace. No matter how you look at it every part of this country is corrupt with greed and power. Now that Obama has all this power it will be only time that he falls into the trap. He may sound like a prophet now but thats because he is new. His main concern needs to be on energy. We need to be independent of foreign oils as well. If we strive for something like nuclear energy it will be much cleaner and we won't have to depend on someone else. Gas prices will always fluctuate as long as we go overseas.

Xeno said...

OH, I actually agree with much of what you have to say. I agree about energy, and I think Obama is going to be working on that. I think the bailouts are wrong and that we should let the market re-adjust naturally. The bubble has to collapse to the real value, as Ron Paul says. Otherwise, we are just setting ourselves up for another collapse, right?

But, here is the real question: if we did let everything that is inflated just collapse, would we punch a hole in our own hull? In other words, would the Ron Paul solution really work, or would it be a disaster? I don't have the macro economic background to answer that.

ubercheesehead said...

Xeno said:Could you give me some examples of American deaths caused by liberal terrorists?

How about William Ayers and the rest of the Weather Underground. Then there was the Unabomber, and the guy who bombed the science hall at UW-Madison, etc.

Xeno said...

Uber, Most individual Americans do not have the option currently to choose the source of energy which reaches their homes (or their servers), unless they can afford solar, wind, or geothermal ... I've looked into those options, but my local laws prevented me from acting on them. I have attempted to practice what I preach, but would not be able to do so legally. I stand fast on my point. I believe we can have clean energy without coal if we fund development properly.

ubercheesehead said...

OK, now to give a little more background on William Ayers. It was determined that evidence gathered against him was, to use the President's words, "tainted, but true." Therefore he was released. Upon his release he said http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000%5C000%5C000%5C267rdlhy.asp
"Guilty as hell, free as a bird—it’s a great country."

No matter what his current spin on the issue is, his past words convict him in the court of public opinion, though not in the law.