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What Are YOUR Priorities for the President's First 100 Days?

Posted by Jim Gilliam, Brave New Films at 7:56 AM on October 28, 2008.


Set your own legislative agenda at White House 2.

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I made a new website that I'd like to share with you.  White House 2 is where U.S. citizens are coming together to tell the next President what we need him to do in his first 100 days in office. Check out my video introduction.

Both candidates agree with us -- we need change, big change.  Now is the time to start getting specific.  Here are *my* top 10 priorities:

  1. Stop the Iraq war
  2. Enact universal, single-payer healthcare
  3. End cancer deaths in 10 years (2019)
  4. Make the U.S. a leader in green jobs and innovation
  5. Energy Independence in 7 years (2016)
  6. Have a press conference every week
  7. Real-time transparency
  8. Election Reform
  9. End corporate welfare
  10. Increase grants for basic scientific and tech research
What are YOUR priorities for the next President?  Go to the website and make your own list.  The homepage automatically keeps track of the most popular priorities and ranks them like the Billboard charts.  You can see priorities rise and fall in real time, based entirely on the ingenuity of the American people.

http://whitehouse2.org/signup

Please forward this.  The more people who join, the more clout we will have with the President and the media.  Too often our national dialogue is driven by sensationalism.  We cannot let the media trivialize the task at hand, or scare us away from the change we need.  With a large enough network, *we* will set the national agenda and make the most of this historic opportunity for change.

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Tagged as: barack obama, john mccain, change, 2008 election, white house 2, 100 days

Jim Gilliam is a co-founder of Brave New Films and has helped produce Robert Greenwald's documentaries: Uncovered, Outfoxed, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq for Sale.


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All good, but I have a few more...
Posted by: QuestionAuthority on Oct 28, 2008 8:08 AM   
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1) Repeal of USAPATRIOT Act

2) Restoration of habeas corpus and posse comitatus as the law of the land

3) Wiretapping without a warrant to be made unlawful again

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» RE: All good, but I have a... Posted by: ranchero42
First 100 days should resemble this agenda..!
Posted by: TJColatrella on Oct 28, 2008 9:52 AM   
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Collectivize all Farms owned by big agribusiness especially Monsanto and start growing Industrial hemp..!

Nationalize the America Oil Industry and all Major Energy..

Free College education for all who have the proper grades and test scores..

Single Payer Health Care..

Nationalize the Airlines..

No credit cards allowed to charge over 15% maximum punitive rate others from 5-10% only..

Withdraw Troops from Iraq within 12 months..

Begin talks with Iran..

Go negotiate and fix tings with Russia and Putin who can easily be dealt with..if you're not a Texas ass-hole..

Keep internet neutral and free..

End NAFTA and CAFTA..!

Hold the Trials for Phil Gramm and Dick Armey and their stank crooked wives..

Hold Trial of Alberto Gonzales...

Ban and dissemble the Federalist Society and remove all Federal Judges who are known members of this conspiracy..!

End Corporate "Personhood.."

Arrest all members current and former of AIP and send fresh brigades to Alaska to put an end to this cession movement..!

Send Tanks to surround Exxon Mobil Headquarters in Irving Texas, then go in an allow them to negotiate their surrender for crimes against the American people..if not..well you know..?

Single payer pharmaceutical system..

Hold Trial of Karl Rove for crimes against America it's people it's system of governance and general asshollery..!

End Capital Punishment after Rove sentencing only..!

Deport Murdoch as persona non gratis..!

Restore Posse Comitatus..!

Recind NSPD-51 and HSPD-20

Recind all Presidential signing statements and pass law no future presidential signing states can be made..!

Recind Executive Order 14348..

Recind Warner Defense act..!

Dis-banned and outlaw Blackwater asap..!

Hold Trial of Condi Rice

Nationalize KBR and hold mass trials of all top executives thereof..

Nationalize Haliburton and hold trials of their top executives thereof..

Cut pay of Congress and Senate by 20% until economic crisis is resolved..and deny any recess..until resolution of economic crisis..

Reset all Sub Prime Mortgages at 6.25% and forgive all penalties to date 1/2 of which are illegal anyway..

Declare Bob Dylan's Birthday National Holiday..!

Declare Muddy Waters Birthday national Holiday..!

Declare Ray Charles Birthday National Holiday..!

Summon Thomas Pynchon to White House for private meeting so I know who he is..!

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A 'Knights Templar' style raid & Arrests of Cheneycorp
Posted by: Purple Girl on Oct 29, 2008 8:42 AM   
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At the Last utterance of the Oath of Office by President Obama, All Traitors which have spent decades undermining Our country are to be arrested, imprisoned and Prosecuted for their High Crimes...Cheney,Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Baker,Kissinger..Those Criminals who infiltrated the political realm during Nixons admin and have been working to destroy our Country ever since.
They did Just seize power they stole our Democratic Process and kneecapped our Free Markets- The very basics to Our society's founding and existence.
'Trickle Down ' was fundementlly UNAMERICAN to begin with...That is the structure of a Feudal System of governance- the Wealthy hold all the resources (which are th efruits of the working classes labors) and 'Trickle ' it down as THEY see Fit! EXACTLY what Monarchies and dictatorships Do!
No doubt Americans 'cling to their Guns & God' they are the Only two Rights and freedoms this regime has been unable to pry out our hands!Sen Obama's statement was not insulting, it was a observation of fact!And Who even admitted to operating in th e'Shadows' of power...Cheney. Who confessed he could care Less what the American People Want! Admitted he doesn't work for US, admitted his TREASON!?!
This mans head should have been loped off in the Public square YEARS ago!And Now he has his next 'Frontman' Up and ready to Go for another round of War games aimed at Americans!
McCain ahs already said he would not End the Iraq occupation, even though ALL reports prove the American People Say 'Get out NOW!'. Why would someone claim to 'Know how to catch bin laden' and yet fail to enlighten US for 7 YRs!! Unless he is blowing his own horn, Delusional or blatantly Treasonous with no intentions to do so. Lest we forget Johns anti communists groups aid & comfort to the Fledgling AQ in the '80's. A Creator destroying his Own creation? Highly Unlikely- It's done so much to keep them in Power and given them ability to seize even more.Hell Bin Laden has served his purpose as a cataylyst very well for this 'New World Order' (was that a Slip HW?). Never in our History has so many rights and freedoms been striped from Americans. Never before in Our history has so much Power been weilded by one Branch of Gov't,particularly the VP's office. never Before has Ameircans been more Beholdened (enslaved)by Brick & Mortar.In Europe at the time of our Independence such entities claimed such powers because they possessed a Family Crest, We just call them Logo's Now!
Until WE reclaim our Free Market Democracy and punish those who have betrayed US and our guiding Doctrines and Laws , the rest is Mute.

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