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0% Afghanistan
Escalated war in Afghanistan & Pakistan
Obama's Afghan war chief linked to torture
14% Business
Named Goldman Sachs vice
president as head of SEC's enforcement divison.
In bed with Goldman Sachs and other Wall
Street barons
Named five pro-RIAA lawyers
to top Justice Department positions
Created failed bank bailout
Mishandled AIG bailout.
Got the Swiss to turn
over the names of US tax fudgers in major bank.
Supported the record industry
in major downloading case.
0% Drugs
Opposes legalization of
marijuana.
Increased funding for war
on drugs
20% Economic and fiscal policy
Stimulus program falls
far short
Named Lawrence Summers
as head of economic council
Proposed crackdown on
offshore tax avoidance
Created grossly insuffient jobs program
Failed to help signicantly with foreclosures
14% Education
Pushes test obsessed education program
Policies repeastedly interfere with powers of local schools
Proposes $12 billion
for community colleges.
Secretary Duncan threatens
to withold funds to states that refuse to privatize public schools
Education secretary Duncan
wants national education standards, for which there is no constitutional
basis for federal government intrusion
Argues for more charter
schools
Plans to press for merit
pay for teachers and other interference in local schools
Educuation secretary Duncan
wants to short student summer vacations and extend the school
day
63% Environment
Issues new emissions
standards for motor vehicles
Signs bill creating
two million more acres of public wilderness
EPA declares greenhouse
gases a public health threat
Plans to end projected
use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear dump
Permits states to set
fuel emission standards. This is not only good for the environment;
it's a rare example of a contemporary president observing the
10th Amendment's grant of powers to states
Supports expansion, and
heavy subsidy, of nuclear power
Supports development of so-called "clean
coal"
Fails to take meaningful steps to reduce
human pollution
27% Foreign policy
Hasn't closed Gitmo
Hilllary Clinton threatens
Iraq type war against Iran
Continues to suport Israeli apartheid
Caved in to Israel on handling
of settlements
Revived Bush era military
tribunals for terrorism suspects
Quietly announces that, in contradiction to a campaign pledge, he
will not be pressing for new NAFTA labor and enviromental regulations.
Plans to leave a large
number of troops in Iraq
Makes Hillary Clinton to
be Secretary of State
Agrees to sign on to
UN statement favoring global decriminalization of homosexuality
Eases restrictions on
Cuban families visiting Cuba and sending money there.
Names George Mitchell
envoy to Middle East

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5% Freedom & Justice
Signed an extention of
the Patriot Act
Obama administration says
it has right to kill you when you're overseas
Supports warrentless tracking
of US citizens via cellphone location
Supported renewal of key
provisions of unconstitutional Patriot Act renewed
Made it much harder to
find out if you are the terrorist watch list
Continues illegal border
computer searches
Supports the anti-gay Defense
of Marriage Act.
Supported continued illegal
wiretapping on American citizens
Permitting torture and
renditions to continue
Continues searchs of computers
at borders
Supports anti-gay marriage
law
Opposes legalization of
marijuana
Won't prosecute in states
that allow medical marijuana
Claims right to kill Americans
abroad it suspects fo aiding terrorism
Refuses to prosecute CIA torture criminals
Instutues virtual strip searches of air
passengers, without record to either Constitution or to proper
scientific testing for dangers.
Support overturn of
long-standing law
that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's
lawyer is present
Claims prisoners have no
right to DNA evidence that might prove their innocence.
Supports recording industry's legal war
against listeners
Eric Holder says he favors
continuation of secret searches of library and bookstore data
files
67% General government
In an end run around the Constitution, names 18 'czars' to oversee
cabinet level programs
Imposes lobbying limits
on staffers who leave during his term of office.
Supports limits on offshore
tax havens
Supports appointed commissions
to carry out important functions of Congress.
29% Health
Wants to remove health
insurers anti-trust exemption
Badly mishandled the healthcare
debate. Healthcare legislation a disaster.
Secret deal with pharma
industry drug costs cuts in healthcare plan
Calls for big cuts in Medicare
and Medicaid
Plans end to Bush imposed
ban on federal funding of stem cell research
Creastes a hyper-expensive,
intrusive and potentially unreliable program to computerize all
medical records.The primary beneficiaries seem to be the companies
that will be doing the work.
Names major healthcare
lobbyist Tom Daschle secretary of Health & Human Services.
He later drops out.
0% Military
Ending the consruction
of F22 planes.
-Appoints William Lynn
deputy defense secretary. Lynn has been a top official of defense
contractor Raytheon and did a poor job when he was formerly at
the Pentagon.
Chooses Robert Gates to
continue as Secretary of Defense
100% Mix
Has appointed a higher
percentage of latinos than either Bush or Clinton.
0% Politics
Dumped Howard Dean as head
of the DNC
Fired 200 DCN staffers
working on 50 state strategy
Hired Rahm Emmanuel as
top aide
0% Religion
Expands Bush's so-called
faith based programs
0% Seniors
Chose Peter Orszag, who
favors cutting Social Security for those under 59, to be budget
director
0% Transportation
Launched hyper costly elite
high speed rail serving business class riders instead of expanding
badly needed conventional rail service for passengers and freight
0% War crimes
Refuses to end renditions
Will not prosecute Bush
administration members for war crimes
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