Because, chances are, he'll win. Predictions?

10/31/2008 11:20:01 AM

probably a lot of the same

10/31/2008 11:22:57 AM

stimulus package, announcement that the troops are coming out of iraq, tax form change, and probably a blowjob from an intern. a white one.

10/31/2008 11:57:14 AM

Announcement of a drawdown in Iraq (with Iraq's cooperation), part of his healthcare plan (possibly pushing to make denial for pre-existing conditions illegal), *maybe* some tax changes, Afghanistan 'surge', some sort of mortgage relief

10/31/2008 12:00:19 PM

oh, and, if you can find references in his speeches or on his website, all the better.

10/31/2008 12:03:40 PM

gettin a little confident i see

he will likely win, but this aint over

10/31/2008 12:24:34 PM

nah its over...either he wins and its over, or mccain wins and its over lol

10/31/2008 12:27:42 PM

I don't know if confident is the word, since I'm not an Obama supporter and ambivalent - at best - about the idea of him being president. I'm more interested in this as a thought / brainstorming experiment. He has described himself as a "blank screen upon which the American people can project their hopes and dreams." I'm interested in the kinds of hopes and dreams people have for his first 100 days.

10/31/2008 1:19:56 PM

i posted this link in another thread, but i think its quite relevant here too

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/obama-lays-plans-kill-expectations-election-victory/

10/31/2008 1:21:42 PM

Similar article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533157015082889.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#pr

10/31/2008 1:24:02 PM

FOX NEWS IS ON THE CASE

10/31/2008 1:24:50 PM

Some form of tax policy change, pull troops from Iraq (no troops in Afghan yet), preliminary steps towards healthcare reform, and might have to dodge some assasin's bullets.

10/31/2008 1:24:58 PM

that was actually from the times of london

10/31/2008 1:25:52 PM

- ammendment of the tax plan to burden the 500k+ crowd, instead of the 250k+
- moving forward with universal healthcare for children NOT adults
- increased funding for green energy
- increased military activity into Pakistan
- announcement of drawdown in Iraq
- talks with Iran scheduled
- talks with Venezuela & Cuba scheduled
- European leaders all stand in line to fellate him
- Israel initially shits a brick, only to later realize he's actually good for them too
- taking credit as the markets bounce back and the economy bottoms 4Q08/1-2Q09

10/31/2008 1:37:22 PM

The article from the ToL:

Quote :

"Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve. The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of “hope” and “change” are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy. One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, “so there’s not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair”. The aide said that Mr Obama himself was the first to realise that expectations risked being inflated. In an interview with a Colorado radio station, Mr Obama appeared to be engaged already in expectation lowering. Asked about his goals for the first hundred days, he said he would need more time to tackle such big and costly issues as health care reform, global warming and Iraq. “The first hundred days is going to be important, but it’s probably going to be the first thousand days that makes the difference,” he said. He has also been reminding crowds in recent days how “hard” it will be to achieve his goals, and that it will take time. “I won’t stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy – especially now,” Mr Obama told a rally in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, citing “the cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq”. Mr Obama’s transition team is headed by John Podesta, a Washington veteran and a former chief-of-staff to Bill Clinton. He has spent months overseeing a virtual Democratic government-in-exile to plan a smooth transition should Mr Obama emerge victorious next week. The plans are so far advanced that an Obama Cabinet has been largely decided upon, with the expectation that most of his senior appointments could be announced shortly after election day. Yet Mr Obama and his aides are under no illusions about the size of the challenges the Democrat will inherit if he enters the Oval Office. Tom Daschle, the party’s former leader in the US Senate and a strong contender for the post of White House chief-of-staff in an Obama administration, said last month that the winner next week would have only a 50 per cent chance of winning a second term in 2012. Not only will the next president take office with the country sliding into a potentially long recession — and mired in debt — but the challenges abroad are immense. There is an unfinished war in Iraq, a worsening situation in Afghanistan and an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan to contend with. Iran appears intent on acquiring the bomb and there remains the ever-present threat from al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists. If he wins, Mr Obama will inherit a Democratic-controlled Congress, and might even have the benefit of a 60-seat filibuster-proof “supermajority” in the Senate. Such a scenario would allow him to push through legislation largely unfettered by Republican opposition. Yet it also means that should the country still be mired in recession in three years’ time, voters — who have short memories — will probably blame him and the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Those stakes have led Mr Obama to conclude that while expectations need to be tempered, big things need to be achieved very early in his first term, when he will still have the political capital to achieve some of his most ambitious legislative goals. Having promised “real” change, the pressure will be on him to deliver. In the Colorado interview, Mr Obama added: “The next president has got to come quickly out of the box.” The early priorities being lined up if he takes power are a mixture of symbolism and substance. He plans to make a major address in a big Muslim country early in his first term. Having pledged on the campaign trail to close Guantanamo Bay, he is also determined to make early moves to rid America of the controversial prison. Yet what to do with the remaining inmates looms as an intractable problem, as many of their home governments refuse to allow them to return. Mr Obama’s first legislative goals will be to follow through on his pledge to cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the wealthiest Americans, and to push through a hugely expensive Bill to provide near-universal health insurance."

1000/365 = 2.74 years

wow...that's a pretty bold agenda

hmm...that sounds like a big bill...near-universal health insurance...I wonder how he will pay for it...

10/31/2008 1:37:42 PM

I will predict that he will institute an Obama TV Channel.

10/31/2008 1:38:30 PM

^ BET?

10/31/2008 2:06:12 PM

10/31/2008 2:09:02 PM

oh come on! when does it stop being politically incorrect to make jokes about the fact that the next president of the US is a black guy?


seriously people....get over this political correctness stick that's jammed up your asses

10/31/2008 2:11:51 PM

haha...please...maybe learn some better jokes then

[Edited on October 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM. Reason : "BET"...aaaahahahhahahahahhah HILARIOUS joke]

10/31/2008 2:12:35 PM

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/31/obamas-top-priorities-for-09/

10/31/2008 4:29:04 PM

pwnt

10/31/2008 8:52:16 PM

he's lowering the income level for tax increases
he's lowering expectations for his presumptive administration
he's campaigning in states that should have been locks

and he has a 3-1 advantage in funding

anyone reading this still think he's got this "in the bag"

11/1/2008 4:43:43 AM

Quote :

"he's campaigning in states that should have been locks"

yeah. Like Arizona, Indiana, and North Carolina.

Fucking Democrats. They should be in the historically red states instead.

wait...what?

11/1/2008 9:18:41 AM

alotta jibba jabba


little action

11/1/2008 10:43:13 AM

Quote :

""I won't stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy -- especially now," Obama told a rally in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, citing "the cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq." "

OH NOES

SOMEONE DARES TO SPEAK THE TRUTH

wheres McCain when we need more talk about bootstraps, trickle-down economics, and ncreased tax breaks for the wealthiest 1%.

oh, look, here comes Joe the Plumber. Everyone say "Hi Joe". Joe the Plumber is here to tell us about how Obama's foriegn policy will lead to the death of Israel. right Joe? Joe? Joe??? has anyone seen Joe?

quick, someone cue the clip about how Ayers is a communist terrorist.



[Edited on November 1, 2008 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ]

11/1/2008 11:18:21 AM

hey joe!

11/1/2008 11:20:13 AM

also, looking forward to this:

http://www.statesurge.com/bills/352559-s3008-federal

i guess when socialists go around saying "support our troops", they actually mean it



[Edited on November 2, 2008 at 8:58 PM. Reason : ]

11/2/2008 8:53:49 PM

END THE WAR IN IRAQ....RAWR!

11/2/2008 9:01:19 PM

because that's exactly what that bill's about..

11/2/2008 9:02:14 PM

Sponsor of the bill - Christopher Bond, a Republican.

11/2/2008 9:10:55 PM

even Elizabeth Dole is a co-sponsor

11/2/2008 9:21:52 PM

A huge case of buyer's remorse.

11/2/2008 9:23:54 PM

The enacting of the EFCA, which has garnered little attention but should.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/small-business-entrepreneurs/2008/10/31/small-business-issues-in-the-ballot-box-the-employee-free-choice-act.html

Quote :

"the Employee Free Choice Act could make it more feasible for the workers of smaller businesses to unionize. Under current law, in order for a union to be recognized at a business, 30 percent of the workers of the business in question must express support for joining a union. This is then followed by a secret ballot election where half of the workers must vote in favor of joining. The Employee Free Choice Act would make this election unnecessary and allow the union to be recognized through a process known as "card check." A majority of workers simply need to sign cards expressing their intent to join the union, and this process need not be secret"

Not a big fan. I can not fathom the reason why the need to change the way this currently works. Secrets Ballots = Good. Right? Secret Ballots mean no intemidation from either the company or the union bosses/thugs. Not only that, you remove voting and replace it with just signing a card with an intent to join? Bullshit.

11/2/2008 9:24:00 PM

I don't see how anybody with a brain could support such an act, unless they were getting money from the labor unions. Oh wait...

11/2/2008 9:26:24 PM

^ agreed

11/2/2008 9:27:18 PM

Everyone gets free in-state college!

lol jk

11/2/2008 10:38:05 PM

Quote :

"I don't see how anybody with a brain could support such an act, unless they were getting money from the labor unions."

At least one economist supports it:

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/employee-free-choice-act-could-be-biggest-reform-since-new-deal/

11/3/2008 12:36:29 AM

The apparatchiks will all hail Chairman Obama (required). The politburo will issue pamphlets with new directives for and pass new laws on behalf of the proletariat. Party officials, prosecutors, and law enforcement--"The Truth Squad"--will reeducate any who dare disagree with Chairman Obama--you have been warned, citizens.

http://www.kmov.com/video/index.html?nvid=285793&shu=1

Be well.

11/3/2008 1:45:37 AM

I love all the Obama supporters who say how awesome universal healthcare will be. Mainly b/c its the easiest thing you can refute.

All you have to do is ask how he can pay for it. And the answer is, he can't...ta daaaaa.

11/3/2008 2:27:47 AM

^ Obama's plan is not universal health care. The health care organization would get revenue from people paying their monthly premiums.

11/3/2008 2:34:53 AM

^ The premiums that they would be forced to pay? I mean, how else will Obama pay for this (among other things)?

Quote :

"Obama and Biden will require coverage of preventive services, including cancer screenings, and will increase state and local preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters."

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/

Hey, I know how Obama will pay for this--by raising the estate tax and every other tax in sight!

[Edited on November 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM. Reason : .]

11/3/2008 2:53:16 AM

Quote :

"I won't stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy -- especially now," Obama told a rally in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, citing "the cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq."

Hmmm... Iraq War: 200b/year... Entitlements: 1.4t/year (as in TRILLION). Wonder which one is bankrupting us more...

11/3/2008 5:52:09 PM

11/3/2008 9:56:38 PM

he'll set it up so everyone can say

Quote :

"remember what happened last time we voted a black guy"

11/3/2008 11:00:02 PM

Quote :

"oh, look, here comes Joe the Plumber. Everyone say "Hi Joe". Joe the Plumber is here to tell us about how Obama's foriegn policy will lead to the death of Israel. right Joe? Joe? Joe??? has anyone seen Joe? quick, someone cue the clip about how Ayers is a communist terrorist."

Joe how could you leave your boy John McCain hanging like that???

^^ lol,

I still think its sad when NC is a swing state. Hell, the KKK leaders want Obama to win so they can rally the ignorant redneck whites to their cause by claiming blacks are taking over.

11/3/2008 11:04:42 PM

NC is going to McCain, don't let CNN fool you.

11/3/2008 11:40:39 PM

i sure hope so

11/3/2008 11:54:07 PM

i'm really starting to wonder if the average American democrat understands economics in our country............

11/4/2008 1:00:11 AM

of course he doesn't understand economics. That's why there's even the notion of "windfall profits"

11/4/2008 6:53:16 AM