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Obama Plunges Into Agenda At Home And Abroad.

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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jan-21-09 07:34 PM
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Obama Plunges Into Agenda At Home And Abroad.
Source: NYT/Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday plunged into Israeli-Palestinian peace diplomacy on his first full day in office and looked poised to order the closing of the internationally condemned military detention camp at Guantanamo.

Acting swiftly on Day One after his inauguration, Obama also summoned his economic team and war council to press ahead with plans for rescuing the battered economy and ending the unpopular war in Iraq.

With his prompt attention to the decades-old Middle East conflict, he made clear it would be a top foreign policy priority among the litany of problems he inherited from his Republican predecessor George W. Bush." >>>




Read more: http://nytimes.com/reuters/2009/01/21/news/news-us-obam...


Good 'list' of President Obama's immediate agenda.

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   He has done more in one day than Bush has done in the past month! n/t  prostock69   Jan-21-09 07:49 PM   #1 
      I bet Obama won't spend a quarter of his term clearing brush.  phantom power   Jan-21-09 09:43 PM   #2 
 
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1. He has done more in one day than Bush has done in the past month! n/t

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2. I bet Obama won't spend a quarter of his term clearing brush.
Or three hours a day "exercising." Or whatever it was that Bush did while Fourth-Branch was doing his job for him.

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