What Obama has already done for the country

[Original Poster]

Undoes Bush's bad policies In the nascent days of his administration, the new president has used his executive authority to freeze not-yet-finalized Bush-era federal regulations, stopped plans to ease air pollution standards, and established a more open public-records policy. His top staffers' salaries have been frozen, and stricter lobbyist and gift rules have been issued. Obama ordered the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, closed within a year. ...he signed the orders to close the controversial detainee camp and secret overseas prisons and ban the use of torture during detainee questioning. Abortion rights activists are expecting the new president to reverse the so-called Mexico City policy, known as the "global gag rule," that restricts U.S. foreign aid to organizations — including the U.N. Population Fund — that "promote or perform" abortions. And the administration is said to be looking at issuing an order that would stop a last-minute Bush proposal that would allow the expansion of offshore drilling in areas that have been previously banned, and to block the Interior Department's plan to develop oil shale fields largely found in Utah. Shutters CIA prisons President Barack Obama will close a secret network of CIA prisons immediately.

[Universal Mind]

Let's see what actually ends up happening. I am not going to make any literal bets with money. I could be wrong. But I "bet" Guantanamo is still open and we still have troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in two years. Be on lookout for, "Something suddenly came up." Clinton and Bush 41 pulled some outrageous promise breaks with that excuse. I have become a major cynic in regard to politicians, especially Republicrats.

[Original Poster]

Good point, but I'm just trying to balance it out because Fox News has been saying things...

[Zera]

Obama has not said he will end "the war on terror" any time soon, has he? (Like Radiohead said, I might be wrong)

[Abra]

Still waiting on stem cell research and alternative energy legislation.

[ChrissyMaria]

You guys do know you can ask policy questions on his new whitehouse.gov site, you can ask anything and leave comments or complaints...he wants to know what he is doing wrong ala JFK, I think its useful for him to hear our complaints or comments. I know I'm going to write questioning his stance on the patriot act I and II and the war on drugs. I am however impressed so far by what he has done, guantanamo will close in 300 days or so, the detainees will be transfered to federal prisons and given habeus corpus, torturing prisoners only gives more fuel to the terrorism fire, treating them humanely will ensure our victory. Now, I will wait and see what happens with iraq and the war on terror, he actually doesn't call it the war on terror anymore, I think he has chosen to abandon that title in search of a less engaging title.

[Half/Dreaming]

Look, all I know is the guy is sending me to Afghanistan. Beyond that, I really don't care.

[Invader]

he actually doesn't call it the war on terror anymore, I think he has chosen to abandon that title in search of a less engaging title. Aye, being that it's customary to release POWs at the end of any war, it makes sense that Bush gave this war a name that could ensure it lasted virtually for as long as humans are on earth.

[tkdyo]

treating them humanely will ensure our victory. I agree with everything you wrote except this...When they already mainly care about dieing in an explosion...I doubt doing this is going to change their minds very much. Our answer lies in truly helping the countries there to recover (read not force them to rebuild a certain way), and them leave them be with their legislation in my eyes.