Reader poll: What should President-Elect Obama’s priorities be?

November 5, 2008 | Dean Takahashi | Comments | |

Here’s our first post-election poll on what President-Elect Barack Obama’s policy priorities should be. What do you think? Please leave comments in addition to voting here.


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  • SlipstreamBRO
    He needs to take his projects one at a time in my opinion. Otherwise he'll end up spreading himself to thin as well as our economy. That will fix attitudes and show that he can accomplish his promise. Then he'll be able to hammer out the other three much faster.
  • He has said repeatedly that on day one he will call the joint chiefs of staff in and give them a new mission: withdraw from Iraq. He must not break that promise.
  • dave denooia
    I find it interesting that people that are suppose to be sophisticated would actually take "fix the economy" as if the President -regardless of party affiliation, race, or whatever has the ability to "fix" the economy. Mr. Obama has never run anything.

    "End the two wars". How about winning "one" war-the macro -the "war on terror" (this means the Jihadist menace as embodied by the Mullahs of Iran, Hamas, Hezbalah, Syria, Al Qaeda, the Taliban)?

    The reality is that a guy with a very questionable background, with arguably horrid judgement and no resume-is now in the White House and the people that voted him in can't articulate any of the "policies" that he has actually proposed.

    Let me know when reality dawns on people who think that the government will "fix" our economy, or that one can unilaterally withdraw from a global war, or who think that raising taxes and spending money abroad in the midst of a global recession is a plan for success.
  • Nikita
    Dave, good comment.

    I also really don't like how skewed the poll is. Obama is not a panacea to all ills - he is an intelligent man who now has a lot of influence... it's going to be a difficult times head of us. "End two wars" - this I simply resent. It's as if US is the culprit, which couldn't be further from the truth. US is spending resources and lives to attempt to establish civil human societies. Yet, the perpetuated illusion is that somehow US caused this. If US rapidly "ends" the wars now, the ending will be similar to that of Vietnam - huge bloodshed as soon as US left.

    Difficult times are ahead for everyone... :\
  • adam_hartung
    President Obama won't be able to "fix" anything until he creates a significant Disruption - and finds some White Space to do new things. Those were the keys to success for Kennedy and Reagan. Can Obama find his own "fire the PATCO air traffic controllers" issue that will give him the lattitude to do something new - like experiment with the Laffer curve? Read more at http://www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com