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Mother Of Four Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 07:55 AM
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What is the single most important thing you want....

To see done in the following presidential term?


Keep in mind the first two years of any term can be linked to the previous president, due to the time it takes our red tape to let things through in government...on the same note the time it takes to actually affect a change.

In other words, if you could focus on just ONE thing you would want to see happen (No, not the election itself) after we have a new president...

What would that ONE thing be?
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 07:57 AM
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1. Healthcare / Insurance reform. n/t
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jmp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 07:58 AM
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2. Have our troops brought home from Iraq.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 07:59 AM
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3. One thing: complete reversal of everything * has done.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:05 AM
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6. Could that be done with one bill?
A legislative "reset" button?
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:14 AM
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9. When your president, as proven by Cheney, et al...
anything is possible.

I'd call it the Presidential Rewind Bill.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:02 AM
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4. a completely different foreign policy
that includes ending the war in Iraq
an end to all wars of aggression
increased use of REAL diplomacy
a real solution for Isaeli Palestinian peace

Notice how I got around that one thing?
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:08 AM
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7. Agreed.
And honoring our international treaties, particularly in regards to arms control.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:15 AM
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10. Yup.
We are going to have a much tougher time as Americans trying to do things ourselves. Many of our problems are going to need outside help. We need to repair those bridges with all the countries of the world so that as the dollar ceases to be the world's trading currency we can build new trading relationships and map out a productive economic role in the world economy. Without that, our country will continue to descend down into debt and insolvency, and NONE of the other issues will be solvable.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:05 AM
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5. Repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Give me that, and I'll go away. nt
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:12 AM
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8. Complete and effective
campaign and election reform. Other than that there are too many things truly crying out for immediate attention for me to stupidly pick one above the others and keep my fingers crossed. Restoration of our chance to have democracy(not a guarantee we will be wonderful at it) is the first shift to counter everything destructive. That is why I also can't delineate the perfect set of reforms, just that they better be pretty damn foolproof and effective.
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1932 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:16 AM
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11. Stop the polarization of wealth through higher min wage, more progessive tax policy,
Edited on Fri Oct-26-07 08:17 AM by 1932
strengthening unions, and to address all the places in the "free market" where costs are allocated heavily on the poor, middle and working class, and the benefits are all confered on people who are doing really well (like, the way people pay for higher education, energy, homes and health insurance).
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alteredstate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:26 AM
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12. Get us out of Iraq
and keep us out of Iran.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:26 AM
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13. Campaign finance reform.
All other issues would follow.
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:31 AM
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14. I would say health care, but now I would go for restoring
the Constitution, and reverse this slide into dictatorship.
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:39 AM
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15. fair elections
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 09:10 AM
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16. IRAQ WAR OVER
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 09:23 AM
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17. Honesty about the global elites
and their agenda and a strategy to make governments work for the people. Everything else would fall into place after that happened.
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freestyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 09:33 AM
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18. End the war.
That must be the first priority because of the continued loss of life, our utter lack of credibility on the world stage, and the huge sums of money that it steals from programs to rebuild this nation and its people. After that, we can get on with repealing the tax cuts, universal health care, equality for all citizens, and becoming a better educated nation.
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phen43 Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 09:37 AM
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19. Universal healthcare and an End to the War
This country can't be the great nation it once was if it's citizens can't afford to be healthy or if many of our young men & women are dead!!!:patriot:
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 09:46 AM
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20. The End of
Outsourcing and Free Trade.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 10:48 AM
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21. An effective and stable system of public financing for federal elections.
Everything else will fall into place from there.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 11:36 AM
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22. Environmental protection
Introduction of a new and effective environmental policy, in addition to strengthening all of our existing environmental laws and ratification of the Kyoto Protocols.

This is my priority, regardless of who eventually gets the Democratic nomination (and hence, the White House in 2008 :) ).
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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 12:20 PM
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23. NO REPUBLICAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE.
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