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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:34 AM
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What do you think is the most important example of change
that Obama has already brought about?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:05 AM
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1. Walking upright
:P
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:38 AM
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2. Organization and his appointmens...
Agree with them or not, at LEAST he's appointing qualified people.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:21 AM
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3. Addressing real issues while avoiding most divisiveness. n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:03 PM
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8. where is your "sarcasm" smilie?
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 03:46 PM
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14. None here.
I suspect I'm going to have many issues with an Obama Administration, but generally he seems to be a cut above most other politicians.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:55 PM
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18. no divisiveness?
did you suffer a head injury of some sort recently?
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:22 PM
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22. I very carefully said "avoiding most divisiveness." n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:42 PM
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23. sorry for the snark.
I couldn't resist.

:-)
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:59 PM
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24. Well, the remaining divisiveness shouldn't be minimized, sure...
...but it does look like we'll be able to be a lot prouder of the next president. I have some hope left. :thumbsup:
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:23 AM
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4. Picking the most competent cabinet members rather than the most ideologically correct.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:43 AM
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5. He's obviously going to take gobal climate change very seriously
and of course that encompasses quite a bit. His science and energy picks are 180 degrees from bushco's appointments and policies. Labor and unions: Obama supports unions and making it easier to organize, including card check. His Secretary of Labor is someone who strongly supports workers and unions.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:23 PM
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7. I agree about global climate change.
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 12:24 PM by leftofthedial
It will be interesting to see how truly empowered his people are on environmental issues.

I also like the Solis pick, although I don't think he is setting her--or labor--up to have a powerful role. Otherwise, she would have been named as part of the economic team.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 03:48 PM
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15. Do you mean that the Labor Sec would somehow also be part
of the Economic team or do you mean he would have named her to a high level economic position?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:54 PM
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17. I believe if he was supportive of unions and understood what is really wrong with the US economy,
he would have named Solis as Sec'y. of Labor when he named the economic team. He would have given her and labor a more prominent economic position in his administration and would have emphasized the role of labor in reforming and restoring the US economy.

Instead, he named primarily a bunch of supply-side, "free market" ideologues to run the economy for him and left Labor until much later.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:00 PM
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19. actually, not a single member of his econ team is a supply sider.
or a proponent of a free market without regulation. I wish DUers would educate themselves.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:02 PM
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20. educate yourself.
Geithner, Summers and the entire Rubin crew are both supply-side proponents (for example, Geithner's role with AIG and the earlier bank bailout) and are most definitely free-market ideologues.

Obama himself is a self-proclaimed "free market" champion.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 11:52 PM
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25. bzzzt. wrong.
No, I'm sorry but they aren't supply siders and Obama has on many occasions advocated stronger regulation of the market.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-23-08 02:51 PM
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27. they are disciples of Bob Rubin, a Friedman-esque monetarist.
"Free market" doesn't mean zero controls, it means very limited controls. Geithner, Summers, et al are most assuredly in the monetarist (supply-side) camp. You don't get to be in charge of the New York Fed or the Federal Open Market Committee unless you are a true believer and a true supporter of the Fed's supply-side monetary policies.

As for the Obama, I'm just going by his own words. He has claimed repeatedly to be a believer in the "free market."
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:18 PM
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11. Science???
Well, golly gee...What is this science thing? Anything like seance?

:sarcasm:
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:52 AM
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6. Making "Conservative" An Adjective Not A Verb...
No longer are we to believe this is a "conservative" or center-right country. The election debunkned both the "conservative philosophy" and those who use it to destroy this country.

President Obama has pushed the national dialogue toward social not military, the middle class over the wealthy and that change can and will happen. For some he's brought hope...other he's brought salvation (deliverance from the dark side of repunicans).
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:10 PM
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9. The reinstitution of English, rather than gibberish, at news conferences.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:16 PM
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10. that's one that has actually occurred
at least.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:41 PM
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12. Well, I'm looking for a silver lining among the clouds of lousy appointments.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 07:03 PM
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21. .
:evilgrin: That was an easy one.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 02:46 PM
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13. Speaking in complete sentences, using real words. n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 06:50 PM
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16. now if I could just put some food on my family.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 11:53 PM
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26. speaking in a coherent fashion
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