~Elation~
Whew!! It’s been a LOOOOOOOOONG eight years. But this morning, I am feeling redeemed. Our country was hijacked for too long by people who co-opted the word ‘freedom’, eroding it all the while bantering it about like a marketing slogan. Freedom and liberty aren’t just words, they’re deeply-held values. So, in celebration of those values, here is the TOP TEN LIST OF THINGS I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO UNDER OBAMA:
10.
No more Sarah Palin! You betcha she’s a great governor for Alaska and all, but can we get her off the national stage? Also? Please?
9.
Justice John Paul Stephens, who at 88 years of age has held out admirably, can now retire. THANK YOU JUSTICE STEPHENS!
8.
Proposition 8 may lose in California, but we are, once again under Obama, a country that stands up for individual freedoms in the face of discrimination. Gay civil rights are coming. Keep fighting!
7.
A more humane response to any national tragedy. Remember Bush when he was notified of the 9/11 attacks? The seven-minute blank non-response? Can you imagine how very differently Obama would’ve handled 9/11 or Katrina? Healthcare, or lack thereof, counts to me as a national tragedy. We are too rich a nation to let our own people suffer without care.
6.
A return to the balance of power between the branches of government. Goodbye to the abuse of executive orders. WOOT!! CHENEY’S FINALLY OUT!
5.
An end to the Bush Doctrine. Pre-emptive strikes? Insanity. And a violation of International Law. A pre-emptive strike in defense is a poorly masked act of hegemony at best, an outright invasion of a sovereign country at worst.
4.
A return to ANY form of fiscal responsibility. Can we say, $10 trillion in debt? According to Kathleen Parker, Bush “spends like a day-wager on a three-day drunk.”
3.
A return to sanity for Women’s Reproductive Rights and international support for Family Planning. Enough with the archaic, anti-woman dogma that led Bush to ban all support for international family planning organizations within hours of his inauguration. You get the feeling that all those millions of poor starving third world babies are invisible to religious extremists. Of any flavor.
2.
Goodbye Gitmo and all the shame it stood for. When detainees protested by attempting suicide, the Pentagon reclassified suicides as “manipulative self-injurious behaviors.” When detainees protested with hunger strikes, they were force fed with tubes down their throats. In June of 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that internees at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to habeus corpus since Combatant Status Review Tribunals were determined to be an inadequate substitute for representation before a fair court to determine if they were held justly. I am looking forward to a return to individual rights and freedoms, even for accused foreign peoples. If they are truly “terrorists” or criminals, the truth will out. Arbitrary imprisonment without review is Stalin’s legacy, not ours.
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Most of all, I am looking forward to a sane and reasonable president who instills confidence with his calm, his intellect, and his compassion. This is a man I respect and am proud to call our next president.
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