What would YOU like to see happen under Obama's Administration?

[happychatter]

My pet cause is Public Campaign Financing, but that's a State Level Fight for me

On the Federal Level I'd like to see a free press

I'd like to see proper Election Reform that addresses corruption, e-voting and dirty tricks

I want the Bill of Rights restored

I don't want our Defense and Intelligence apparatus to be the private tool of transnational corporations and fat cats, but rather, to protect the interests of the American people

Your turn if you want to play... I'm just night owling it this week

peace out

edited to add: Trade agreements with teeth... enforced compliance regarding currency manipulation... labor and human rights standards... the environment

[lapfog_1]

1. I'd like to be employed again.

then, after I buy groceries and pay my bills... I'll worry about the restoration of my rights and so forth and so on.

[tabbycat31]

26. agreed 100%

I hate taking money out of savings just to eat. I can't even find a retail job right now and it's incredibly frustrating.

[eShirl]

2. two things

* socialized medicine
* regulated, federally legalized cannabis (modelled after the example of alcohol)

[happychatter]

4. we'll have to fight for THOSE two... I don't think either are on his agenda

I'm with you though... 100%

[happychatter]

6. I should add though... if too may more people are unable to pay doctors or buy medication

we might just find some strange new allies for the cause of single payer health care

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. The last 28 years of corporatist, anti-middle class, warmongering bullshit ended permanently

And a return to being something resembling a democracy again.

[happychatter]

5. that one brought a tear to my eye

I'm with you

I remember going up the Univ.District to find people protesting Reagan's bombing of Tripoli... it was just me and a handful of Communists...

we have SO much harm to undo... so much MORE blowback coming our way if we don't

[OHdem10]

7. Our country is in such a crisis that I believe Obama and His Team

will have to spend the first 2 years putting out fires while
trying to get this ship turned in right direction.

Since I have high regards for Obama, Hillary and Joe Biden, I am
asking them to do one thing: Anytime an issue or policy is discussed
be sure to study carefully and thoroughly how it will impact our
Middle Class. I understand they must assist Business but it
imperative that our Middle Class be saved. No Middle Class=No Democracy.
No Middle Class and we become a "Banana Republic".
When Middle Class is thriving America Thrives and Wall Street Thrives.

[happychatter]

8. I've been saying for a long time the Middle Class is two loan denials away from....

Homelessness and Public Transportation

the working poor... the poor period... are your brothers and sisters

[izzie]

9. A govt. that works from the bottom up to the top

and welfare out of the hands of big banks and for big business. I can not believe we are letting a guy next door go for broke, no job and house gone, and give money to a man making 16 million a year that runs a company the can not make any money. What is is with that type thinking any how?

[crispini]

10. I'm still waiting for my pony............

:D

[xenussister]

11. All that cash that was sent to Iraq and then went missing

Hundreds and hundreds of things, but besides those already mentioned, I really really really want to see an in-depth investigation about what happened to all that cash that was sent to Iraq and then went missing. The "liberal" MSM and Republicans blew it off, like it was no big deal. My mind still boggles!

[GreenArrow]

12. here are a few

in no particular order.

An end to the drug war.

A turn to being smart on defense, rather than "strong" on defense; i.e., big cuts to the military and a general rethinking of the way we project ourselves in the world.

A reinvestment in infrastructure programs.

An end to the useless and counterproductive No Child Left Behind scheme which devalues teaching as an end in and of itself and hampers interest in both learning and teaching.

A move away from privatizing things like roads, prisons, etc.

A sensible, fair accessible care, not profit, oriented health care system. This would include bringing big pharma to heel.

Openess in government; no more secret Dick Cheney style energy meetings.

A restoration of the fairness doctrine.

An end to the Cuba embargo.

I could list many more, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for any of them to come to pass.

[Ganja Ninja]

13. Legalize Marijuana and have the entire Bush cabal ...

renditioned to Iran.

[ensho]

20. Iran wouldn't want them. nobody wants them but the Hague

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[terrya]

14. My wishes are tied into that evil gay agenda

1) Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (a fully inclusive one, including transgendered folks)

2) Pass the Matthew Shepard Act

3) Down the road, repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell

4) Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (that one is probably undoable for a while, politically).

[Starry Messenger]

15. Out of Iraq. Health care. Help for the poor and underemployed.

I'd like to get my teeth fixed. More respect (and $$) for the arts and education. Marriage equality. Not in any particular order.

[L0oniX]

16. See list below:

* single payer health care
* stop the Iraq war in the time frame he campaigned on
* tax the rich
* pull out most of our military bases from around the world
* prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and all the others involved in war crimes
* stop the WTO and NAFTA
* give a 100% tax break for all those starting up new factories so we can have more jobs here
* tax the hell out of all companies who outsource jobs
* delete the no fly list
* recall most if not all of Bush's signing statements
* restore habeas corpus
* close down Guantanamo and all torcher camps
* ban lobbyists
* revoke corporate person hood
* join with the Kyoto Treaty
* pull out our military from Afghanistan and regroup our efforts using the CIA and special forces
* find and prosecute domestic terrorist group members of the KKK and other groups involved in hate crimes
* ban oil futures investments
* invest in mass transit where needed

...and I can come up with more but I got to go to work now.

[ensho]

21. like the one on KKK being a domestic terrorist org.

the (racist) cops have let them get away with too much. and that includes the racist cops in Wash.D.C. Justice Dept.

[AspenRose]

22. That's a really good list

I hope they do something about the no-fly lists and domestic spying too. I DREAD flying.

[Diamonique]

17. I want the news media to go back to being about reporting news...

... instead of pushing an agenda.

[last1standing]

18. I want the sun and the moon to rise and fall at my personal whim.

But since that isn't any more likely than Obama being able to recreate the press to make them do their jobs properly, I'll stick to reality.

Work to pull this country back from economic depression. This means stop throwing money at financial institutions that just use it to buy up other failing banks and start lending money to companies that actually hire working class people who keep the economy afloat (with regulatory strings that keep these companies from investing our tax dollars overseas).

Restore Habeas Corpus. The right to question one's incarceration is paramount for a free society.

Support (really support) GLBT rights. No one who is GLBT should be paying a single tax dollar until his/her rights are specifically encapsulated by federal law to be equal (not separate) to those of every other person in this country.

Get out of Iraq. We are killing innocent people and borrowing ourselves into poverty all for a war on a country that never threatened us. It has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that our war in Iraq is illegal and predicated on lies. Every day we remain is a day we are criminals.

Cut military spending. There, I said it. The United States currently spends as much as every other country in the world, combined on our defense. Even so, our soldiers do not have basic equipment, often resorting to buying their own. Reduce spending by eliminating mercenaries who charge up to 20 times the cost of a soldier and give up on ridiculous SDI programs that just don't work.

Support Free Trade, but understand that free and fair are not antonyms. If GM wants to build a plant in China that plant should be equipped with the same environmental protections as the U.S. would require and the workers should receive the same pay and benefits as a union worker. If Toyota wants to ship cars over or build them here, the same rules should apply.

Universal health care. We can't compete on a global scale against companies that do not have to pay for individual health care for their employees. Until we realize this and resolve the issue once and for all, we will continue to go down the road of obsolescence. We will end up as nothing more than a wasteland nation with the ability to destroy the entire earth with nuclear weapons.

There are many more things that must be done, but this list would be a good start.

[ensho]

19. military out of Iraq; military bases closed around the world;

military brought home to clean up the toxins at ALL the military bases in the US.

reduce the amount of gas driven vehicles.

re evaluate the safety of all our nuke plants.

tackle the pharma Barons for their criminality.

tell us the truth about mad cow and demand that all cattle sold for eating be tested for mad cow.

label all foods that have been modified.

stop the meat Barons from putting hormones in food animals/fowls. (no more man breasts)

I could go on.

[happychatter]

23. Thanks for playing... great ideas here... I thought we needed to find some things we AGREE ABOUT

right about now

[demwing]

24. Two Words:

Fairness Doctrine

[alsame]

25. Competence, honesty and transparency. n/t

[TheCoxwain]

27. Rush Limbaugh's Ugly head chopped off

[camera obscura]

28. An actual end to combat operations in Iraq. And unicorns farting rainbows.

The second one is optional.

[Radical Activist]

29. Just stick to his platform.

As long as he doesn't pull a Clinton and abandon his platform to move to the middle, then I'm happy. He ran on the things I care about most: clean energy, public service, right to organize, end the Iraq war, fair trade and so on.

[Rocknrule]

30. The war on terror expanded to include a domestic front

Gitmo may be history, but all the McVeigh/Adkisson/Oswald wannabes out there should be given a one-way ticket to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. And people like Palin, Savage, Coulter, and Hannity should receive a strong message that the American people do not condone them inciting potentially dangerous, violent hatred against other Americans.

[Rocknrule]

31. The war on terror expanded to include a domestic front

Gitmo may be history, but all the McVeigh/Adkisson/Oswald wannabes out there should be given a one-way ticket to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison. And people like Palin, Savage, Coulter, and Hannity should receive a strong message that the American people do not condone them inciting potentially dangerous, violent hatred against other Americans.

[Cleita]

32. 1. Single payer universal health care or the passage of HR676 the extended

Medicare for all bill that's floating around in committee, ignored and not heard. Sure George W. Bush would veto it but hopefully, if it get's to Obama's desk he won't.

2. I want all criminals and thieves attached to the Bush administration to be investigated, tried and sentenced including the head cappos themselves, George Bush and Dick Cheney.

3. An FDR type of program to start putting every one to work and reverse the downward spiral of the economy.

Of those three, reasonable to me, things I want done, I'm a realist and know that maybe only number 3 has a chance in hell of getting done.

[LWolf]

33. My top priorities:

No more NCLB, or high-stakes testing of any kind.

No more NAFTA/CAFTA

HR 676.

Universal public pre-school through college education.

No more patriot acts.

Restore habeus corpus.

Get out of Iraq, and end the bogus war on terror.

Economic stimulus aimed at the people, in the form of a modern WPA-type
jobs and infrastructure program.

Some modern version of a fairness doctrine.

Election reform, to include:
hand-counted paper ballots in all elections
all polling banned
all elections 100% publicly financed
all candidates guaranteed equal, and equally neutral, media coverage
proportional representation
irv or some other form of ranked voting

How many of these do you think are likely to happen in an Obama administration?

[Starry Messenger]

35. Slightly more likely than the McCain administration?

Fingers crossed anyway. ;)

[LWolf]

36. We can probably get some concessions, anyway.

Which is more than we'd get from a McCain administration.

[WinkyDink]

34. Restoration of Habeas Corpus, #1. Then send Bush and Cheney to The Hague. Well, a girl can dream.