Barack Obama's Executive Orders

Barack Obama's Executive Orders

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New President to Put His Stamp on the USA Sooner Rather Than Later

Barack Obama, following the traditional practice of incoming Presidents, plans to put his own stamp on the United States by issuing a series of executive orders that will have the force of law. The choice of the executive orders is illuminating.

Some of the first executive orders will no doubt be pleasing to some of Barack Obama's feminist supporters and will anger pro life supporters. Barack Obama will lift the restrictions on foreign aid to abortions
Barack Obama's Executive Orders
 that were imposed by President George W. Bush. Obama will also lift restrictions for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Neither of these proposed executive orders is unexpected. President Clinton, when he first entered office, issued similar executive orders to lift abortion restrictions imposed by both President Reagan and the first President Bush.

President George W. Bush had imposed some restrictions on embryonic stem cell research because such procedures destroy human embryos, which pro life supporters regard as taking human life. Breakthroughs in adult stem cell research have subsequently obviated the need for embryonic stem cell research that many find ethically suspect. Nevertheless Barack Obama will issue the executive order that will open up embryonic stem cell research.

Far more controversial, because it will affect far more people, is a proposal to issue an executive order to reverse President Bush's opening of offshore areas and certain land areas such as Utah to oil exploration. While, due to the current economic slowdown, the price of oil and gas has declined since the summer highs, unrestricted oil exploration still enjoys wide spread support. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has gained a lot of political mileage with his "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" campaign.

More experts suspect that the current decline in the price of oil and gas is only temporary. When that price starts to rise, Barack Obama's executive order restricting oil exploration will almost certainly come back to haunt him.

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Ok,check this out and decide for yourself. Sometimes you just have to dig a little bit deeper! This concerns our new President. Please don't watch this around the kids! Also check out the book "Eating in the Dark" By Kathleen Hart". This book tells you about America's Experiment with GM Foods. It's definitely worth looking at!!!!!!!!!! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756
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Posted on 04/23/2009 at 3:04:09 AM

Stem cell research never stopped or was restricted. Only embryonic stem cell use was restricted and even that continued on with the use of placenta and umbilical cord stem cells. Embryonic stem cell have also proven less stable than adult stem cells. Get off your political high horse.
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Posted on 02/18/2009 at 10:02:51 AM

THE COUNTRY SAW ITS NET WORTH PLUMMET. THE COUNTRY SAW MILLIONS OF JOBS LOST. THE COUNTRY SAW THE COUNTRY SAW BILLIONS GO TO BANKERS WHO HAD CONNECTIONS TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. AND SO AMERICA BECAME SICK OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. AND IN SENSELESS DESPERATION, AMERICA ELECTED AN UNKNOWN COLLEGE PROFESSOR AS ITS PRESIDENT. SO WHEN YOU SEE OBAMA GIVING HIS NEXT SPEECH, AND YOU NOTICE HOW OUT OF PLACE HE LOOKS AT THE PODIUM, IT'S NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE IGNORANT OR EVIL OR RACIST. IT'S BECAUSE THIS MAN IS COMPLETELY OUT OF HIS DEPTH. HE SNAPS AT THE MEDIA WHEN THEY ASK HIM SERIOUS QUESTIONS. HE LOOKS BAFFLED WHEN HE GETS ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE. AND THE ONLY ECONOMIC SOLUTION HE SEEMS TO KNOW IS TO GIVE AWAY MONEY TO HIS FRIENDS. BARACK OBAMA IS THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT. BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
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Posted on 02/12/2009 at 8:02:37 PM

IT'S CLEAR FROM THE PAST FEW WEEKS THAT BARACK OBAMA IS COMPLETELY OUT OF PLACE. IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT HE'S BEEN TRYING TO DO TO THE COUNTRY, IF YOU LOOK AT HOW HE HANDLES HIMSELF, IF YOU LOOK AT THE WAY HE DEALS WITH THE MEDIA, IT'S PLAIN TO SEE THAT HIS ELECTION WAS DUE NOT TO HIS OWN ABILITY, BUT TO A PERFECT STORM OF EVENTS. FIRST, GEORGE W. BUSH DESTROYED THE ECONOMY. HE DRAINED THE TREASURY WITH AN ENDLESS WAR. HE SOLD OUR MANUFACTURING BASE OUT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. HE GAVE BILLIONS IN AIDS MONEY TO AFRICA TO BURNISH HIS IMAGE WITH LIBERAL JOURNALISTS AND HISTORIANS. SO AMERICA BECAME SICK OF GEORGE W. BUSH. SECOND, JOHN MCCAIN RAN THE WORST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN LIVING MEMORY. HE PRAISED OBAMA CONSTANTLY. HE REFUSED TO LET HIS SUBORDINATES ATTACK OBAMA. HE NOMINATED AN UNQUALIFIED ALASKAN HILLBILLY AS HIS VICE PRESIDENT. SO AMERICA BECAME SICK OF JOHN MCCAIN AS WELL. THIRD, WALL STREET COLLAPSED AT THE HEIGHT OF THE ELECTION SEASON. THE COUNTRY SAW ITS NET WORTH P
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Posted on 02/12/2009 at 8:02:03 PM

I ask that each of you recognize that the President is not going to save us we need to save ourselves and that of the 80 pages of promises he made during his campaign, he will have to prioritize and push them through the bureacracy of our government meaning that the lower priority items may never get on the table. To move this country forward, we need to take our eye off of blame, political party, and personal differences and focus on the big picture. Rising above the words conservative and liberal will allow us to see that we are truly headed in the wrong direction regardless of the president and it will take each of us to move this country to a more unified focus on making America great. It starts with our own very basic priorities in life and identifying where each of us can make a difference.
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Posted on 02/09/2009 at 11:02:21 AM

Bush took executive orders to a new level -- not only to circumvent the legislative branch but also the judicial branch. Where is your concerned for those abuses, Margaret M.?
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Posted on 02/08/2009 at 8:02:00 AM

The comments so far are very revealing -- no one senses anything unusual in this application of executive authority, since other presidents have used executive orders. However, the number of executive orders is unusual, as is the practice of circumventing the authority of the Legislative Branch of Government -- The Congress -- The Elected representatives of the People in reversing issues that do not have a time urgency, but are simply ideologically incompatible with the new administration. The political danger is that President Obama will continue to create law, which is not the authority of the Executive Branch, resulting in change in the balance of power in our democracy. Governments in which legislative authority is vested in the Executive authority are the definition of a dictatorship -- something the United States has never had. Stay tuned. The next four years are going to be interesting.
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Posted on 02/06/2009 at 7:02:13 PM

BUSH DA BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FERGET OBAMA
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Posted on 01/28/2009 at 10:01:18 AM

Obama is the greatest thing to come upon america.He can do things nowbody else could because he know how it feels to stuggle
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Posted on 01/26/2009 at 6:01:26 AM

Wayne, Obama was president of the Harvard law review. Presidents of the law review are chosen based on competition scores, grades, and ability. Harvard law school has been considered the most prestigious law schools since the 1870s. The first volume of the law review was published in 1877, there have been about 130 presidents of the review since then, and Barack was one of them.
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Posted on 01/23/2009 at 10:01:42 AM

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