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ngant17 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 08:42 AM
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6 priorities I'd make if I were President Obama
1. Mandatory paper ballots / hand-counting / quality assurance sampling (which includes of course exit polling) for all federal, state and local election ballots. Improving the election process and voting rights overall.

2. Stricter interpretation of the Constitutional amendment that allows only Congress to declare a war , and thus restricting the license of the President a wage a war, i.e. the Iraq war allowed the President to by-pass the original constitutional intent of a “war powers act”.

3. Quit using “terror threats” as an excuse to do anything I wanted to do, including trashing the US Constitution.

4. Follow peace initiatives. Consult former Pres. Carter for advice and guidance here.

5. Basically, anything in the way of recovering lost ground from the collective years of 3 different Rethug administration insanities, part of which began with Raygun.

6. More hybrid cars, and reducing industrial pollution/carbon footprints.


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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 09:06 AM
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1. #7
Arrest Bush Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

#8 reverse bush's environmental rapes

Send Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, O'liely to Gitmo forever for domestic terrorism
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 09:15 AM
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2. #1
Put that 700B (minus the 70B that is already lost to Wall St) into the hands of the people to stimulate the economy begin to get us out of trouble.
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DeepBlueDem Donating Member (433 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 09:27 AM
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3. 7 and 8
7. Kill the Patriot Act
8. Kill no child left behind
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TooRaLoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 09:28 AM
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4. #1 - Top priority, no question. nt
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-08 01:04 PM
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5. GLOBAL WARMING !!! Also, tho not as "big", systematically cleansing out all W's exec orders & ...
signing statements, as well as appointees. The judicial appointments, eg, we are stuck with, but the ENTIRE executive branch should be as meticulously free of all but the rare "competent and honest" W Bush appointee as possible, ASAP.
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