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Well all right then. Following the lead of Frogette's post and prompted by Cart's comment in my last post, here's my wish-list for Obama's presidency:

• Get out of Iraq within a year, and that means all troops. If the Iraqi army can't handle the situation by now, they never will.

• Make capturing Osama bin Laden a top priority, but recognize that using air strikes and thousands of troops to do it isn't working — it's only alienating the people there.

• Stop using the hammer of the US military in the war on terror. It's a police action that requires good intelligence and cooperation from other countries.

• Show some leadership and push hard for a single-payer, Medicare-for-all-style of health care. Don't try to retrofit your new plan to the inefficient, expensive, for-profit system we have now.

• Make clean energy the engine that drives the economy in the next few decades. It's a win-win.

• Make it clear to the Israelis that we will no longer support their brutal treatment of the Palestinians with our tax dollars.

• Prosecute the criminals in the Cheney/Bush administration.

And if getting these things done means you don't get a second term, so be it. Don't do what the Clinton's did and put your personal ambition and ego ahead of the good of the country.