Obama In Trouble

Those are some of the wonkier things he's done. (There are others: introducing legislation to make it illegal for tax preparers to sell personal information, for instance, and legislation on chemical plant security and lead paint.) He has done other things that are more high-profile, including:


* His "health care for hybrids" bill

* An Energy Security Bill

* Various bills on relief for Hurricane Katrina, including aid for kids and a ban on no-bid contracts by FEMA

* A public database of all federal spending and contracts

* Trying to raise CAFE standards

* Veterans' health care

* Making certain kinds of voter intimidation illegal

* A lobbying reform bill (with Tom Coburn), which would do all sorts of good things, notably including one of my perennial favorites, requiring that bills be made available to members of Congress at least 72 hours before they have to vote on them.

* And a proposal to revamp ethics oversight, replacing the present ethics Committee with a bipartisan commission of retired judges and members of Congress, and allowing any citizen to report ethics violations. This would have fixed one of the huge problems with the present system, namely: that the members have to police themselves.

- www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2983845

 

People who don't want to see improvement in the welfare of the average man and woman in these United States, who care more about the wealthy than they do about the vast majority of people in these United States. People who want to see the continuation of the Bush-McCain policy of foreign adventurism.

 

I couldn't have said it better.

I wonder just how many dozens of idiotic attacks like this will be posted here before January 10, 2009, when Obama is sworn in as 44th President of the United States of America.

 

That's why it makes sense.

 

The same reasons why I support Senator Obama - the protection of civil liberties and a pro-America foreign policy.

 

I guess we'll see come January 20, 2009.

Regardless, I think I will like Senator Obama's policy in Iraq better than that of Senator McCain.

 

Well, I'm not sure Obama is pro-American (that would make eveyone else anti-American in their foreign policy). :laugh:

I know you are enamored with Obama's rhetoric on Foreign Policy, but wouldn't you be more comfy with him as Sec of State? :thumbs:

 

I want Senator Joe Biden as Secretary of State.

 

That's a good idea. After all, Joe thinks that Obama is "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,". He's a shoo-in!

 

Biden is one of the few democrats - certainly compared to who's left - that's honest about Iraq. He knows we cannot possibly have everyone out of Iraq immediately. It will take time or else a massive destabilization will occur. I give him credit. And he has a great admiration for Helms and Thurmond, whom he worked with (and spoke at Thurmond's funeral). I appreciate someone willing to be bipartisan for the good of our country.