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Obama, his first term (148 posts)
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Post #2
10 Nov 2008
Obama will move to veto Bush laws
President-elect to use special powers on stem cell and oil drilling policies
(The Guardian) Barack Obama will move swiftly to unpick many of what he sees as the most egregious acts of the Bush administration when he enters the White House in January, including restrictions on stem cell research and moves to allow oil drilling in wilderness areas, a leading member of his transition team said yesterday.
... Podesta singled out restrictions applied by George Bush, in 2001, on federal funding of stem cell research, as well as recent moves by the White House to dilute environmental protections against oil drilling, as two areas in which quick action may be taken. "You see the Bush administration, even today, moving aggressively to do things that are probably not in the interest of the country," he said.
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A good beginning on the ecological and jobs fronts already, looks like.
Might some attention to the worst elements of the USA PATRIOT Act be next?
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>Might some attention to the worst elements of the USA PATRIOT Act be next?
From your lips to God's ears!
sharon
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I forget. Is Guantanomo bay part of the Patriot Act?
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<-I forget. Is Guantanomo bay part of the Patriot Act?->
Not in any way I know of. Guantanomo being a pre-standing U.S. base before 9-11, simply had part of it re-purposed under the existing Commander-In-Chief powers of the Presidency.
Congress, I believe, later tried to give some extra-territoriality legal status mumbojumbo protection to Bush and what was being done there. But I don't believe that legislation was part of the Patriot Act - it came after the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was a cobbled-together piece of Rightwing wish list items that had been sitting on their metaphorical shelf gathering dust under the belief that "They'd never let us pass this" that got slapped together and shoved through in the immediate wake of 9-11.
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Your recollection sounds about right to my ears...although closing up the prison and trying anyone yet to face their charges in civilian/criminal courts would go over rather nicely as well, and I think that's already on Obama's to-do list. It'll come too late for Omar Khadr among others, but it's there.
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Post #8
12 Nov 2008
Something else that might come to the President-Elect's attention upon his swearing-in re: aviation security rules:
http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AVwebInsiderBlog_TSAProposal_199114-1.html
Apparently the deadline for comments on this change takes effect just before Obama's sworn in.
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Post #9
12 Nov 2008
I wonder if he had much to say during the Bush administration when he was setting up secret tribunals and the Patriot Act?
Congressman sorry for likening Obama to Hitler
(CNN) — Republican Paul Broun is sorry for calling President-elect Barack Obama a 'Marxist' and comparing him to Adolph Hitler, the Georgia Congressman said Tuesday.
...Broun was specifically referring to a July speech by Obama, where the then-Democratic presidential nominee said he supports a civilian force helping the military when it comes to national security: "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the military]," Obama said in the speech that was largely a call to national service.
Responding to those comments, Broun told the AP Monday: "That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
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Palin says she'd be honored to help Obama
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that she would be honored to help President-elect Barack Obama in his new administration, even if he did hang around with an "unrepentant domestic terrorist."
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Post #11
12 Nov 2008
Time for the alien parasite to change hosts.
Cheney, Biden to meet privately at VP residence
WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney, getting ready to hand off the job as the nation's second-in-command, will sit down with Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday at the Naval Observatory.
Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said Cheney and his wife, Lynne, have invited Biden and his wife, Jill, to their home at the observatory, the vice presidential residence. The meeting on the vice presidential transition follows the historic meeting President Bush had Monday with President-elect Obama.
"The Cheneys and the Bidens will have a private meeting and then tour the residence," Mitchell said.
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And what is Blackwater USA for the Bush II Administration, I wonder?
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Scouts?
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Praetorian Guard, or so the fears have been running as I recall. I wonder if such an organization might not have a financial interest in gumming up the works of transition between Administrations.
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Post #17
18 Nov 2008
After he is officially made the most powerful man on the planet, Barack Obama will celebrate with pizza.
Obama to bring his favourite Chicago pizza makers to inauguration
After he is officially made the most powerful man on the planet, Barack Obama will celebrate with pizza.Not just any pizza, but his favourite one, from Italian Fiesta Pizzeria on Chicago's South Shore.
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Post #18
18 Nov 2008
Atlanta - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.
After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US
Atlanta - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.
... Supremacist propaganda is already on the upswing. In Oklahoma, fringe groups have distributed anti-Obama propaganda through newspapers and taped it to home mail boxes. Ugly incidents such as cross-burnings, assassination betting pools, and Obama effigies are also being reported from Maine to Alabama.
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wth was wrong with that html ?
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http://www.thevhive.com/forum/the-v/threads/the-new-software-thread/1087?folder_name=chat
It's being looked into. Nick's having trouble replicating it on his end.
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Post #21
21 Nov 2008
Clinton has agreed to be secretary of state, reports say
(CP) WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton, the woman who fought a bruising battle against Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, has accepted an offer from the president-elect to serve as secretary of state, The New York Times reported Friday.
The Times, citing two Clinton confidants, said the New York senator has opted to give up her Senate seat to become one of the most prominent members of Mr. Obama's forthcoming administration.
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Post #23
1 Dec 2008
Obama rolls out national security team
(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced Sen. Hillary Clinton as his pick for secretary of state, calling her an "American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence."
Obama also confirmed that he is keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post.
Rounding out his Monday announcements, Obama named retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones as his national security adviser, Eric Holder as attorney general, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary and Susan Rice as ambassador to the United Nations.
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The Belles of the Ball
It was billed as the biggest, most eye-popping of the inauguration hotel packages: the JW Marriott's $1 million "build-your-own-ball" offer. You get 300 rooms, four suites, $200,000 worth of food and drink, and a primo site overlooking the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route.
And it was snapped up within hours of Barack Obama's election as president by a customer the hotel declined to identify.
This morning, the Marriott is scheduled to announce that the buyer is a Virginia businessman who wants to bring to the inauguration disadvantaged people, terminally ill patients, wounded soldiers and others down on their luck.
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quote: Reuters
Budget deficit to hit $1.2 trillion
The U.S. budget deficit will swell to a record $1.186 trillion in fiscal 2009 as the global recession saps the economy, congressional forecasters said on Wednesday, presenting a daunting challenge to President-elect Barack Obama who has said tough choices will be necessary.
The Congressional Budget Office also forecast the deficit will likely fall to $703 billion in the 2010 fiscal year which begins October 1, 2009, as the U.S. recession begins to ease in the second half of this year.
The budget gaps for both years likely will be significantly greater, however, as Washington prepares to deliver a jolt to the economy with a large economic stimulus measure.
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When was the surplus again? Nine years ago? Damn that's some spending...
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Also, some tax cuts.
I remember when the usual Bush $400-500 billion deficit was jaw-dropping. It's a brave new world.
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And a couple of wars funded outside the regular appropriations pricess.
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