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Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions - washingtonpost.com

Submitted by Leolaporte

Nov 09, 2008

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Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team. Read the full article

Comments (9)

Andyb56,

Nov 09, 2008

Early next year is going to be an interesting time....

Jasongoldberg,

Nov 09, 2008

@andyb56 Obama team's list of 200 Bush actions to overturn immediately. -- they must be salivating.

Twitizen,

Nov 09, 2008

I'm just a little surprised there are 200 things that got done in the current admin. Is there anything to be left intact?

Ajsmom514,

Nov 09, 2008

I'm very interested to see what the next year will bring! I'm glad he seems to be taking the time to make some decisions prior to the inauguration.

Eloquent47,

Nov 09, 2008

Abilities notwithstanding, how prepared is this man to govern? What an exciting time to be on his team. Still awaiting the phone call!!!

Robertworstell,

Nov 10, 2008

Obama is also poised to become very unpopular very fast if he doesn't govern from the center and compromise with all factions. New brooms want to sweep clean - but moderation in all things is an even older truism.

Desormeaux,

Nov 10, 2008

I would be SO very happy to see him look past the religious warriors out there and do something that would SO very much help mankind. I would like for President-Elect Obama to look at stem cell research and what it could do. I support it very strongly.

Dannytatom,

Nov 10, 2008

@Desormeaux Exactly what I'm hoping for.

Dat,

Nov 10, 2008

According to a NYTIMES article, by Janny
Scott, when Obama arrived in the Illinois
Senate as a brand new senator,
he was greeted with taunts,
name calling by his African American colleagues.

Obama's African American colleagues,
held it against him, that he was a graduate
of Harvard and that he was of mixed race,
he wasn't black enough.

They said so to his face.

It got so bad, that a shoving match ensued
between Obama and one of the principal
agitators.

Stanley Crouch piece in the NY Daily News

"Obama isn't black like me illustrates
the hostility that African Americans
in positions of power and influence within
our society had towards Obama.

What about Jesse Jackson's rude comment,
"I want to cut his nuts off"?

Jesse Jackson may have been crying when
Obama finally made it, but were those
tears of joy or rage, because he knows
he could never get it.

Obama is not an African
American in the traditional sense.

There is no Public School in any ghetto
that he attended anywhere in the urban
centers of the USA.

His formative years were spent
attending school in Indonesia.

He speaks well, eloquently, in perfect
command of the English language.
African Americans are coming out of the
woodwork, rallying around the Obama flagpole,
now, but a lot of them didn't do so in
the beginning.

He owes more to the whites in the Senate
that were his friends than the blacks that
turned their backs on him.

I like respect and like Obama a lot.

I have tremendous respect, admiration for Barack Hussein Obama.

I have contempt for those African Americans that
in their own words "gave Obama hell" when he first arrived
in the Illinois Senate, because he wasn't black enough,
in their opinion.

They are jumping all over him now, that he won.