Is Obama Moving Too Fast in His First Few Days in Office?

By U.S. News Staff

January 23, 2009 RSS Feed Print

The Associated Press sums up President Obama's second full day in office: "President Barack Obama moved quickly Thursday to reshape U.S. national-security policy, ordering the Guantánamo Bay prison camp closed within a year, forbidding the harshest treatment of terror suspects and naming new envoys to the Middle East and Afghanistan-Pakistan." This in addition to the moves President-elect Obama made during the transition into office—specifically, asking Bush to request additional TARP funds from Congress. Is President Obama moving too fast? How much does he expect to get done in his first few days in office? How much should we expect? Post your thoughts.

Previously: Should Obama Close Guantánamo Bay?

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Provide concise evidence of this fascism: Names, dates, and evidence.

You cannot, because NOTHING the Bush administration did met the definitions you posted. That is because we have a constitution and elected officials who protect it.

It is really pitiful that there are so many ignorant people in this country, especially with our exceptional 24x7 access to facts, historical archives, to include transcripts and photos. Using this term so loosely is an insult to the millions who have suffered and died on our planet fighting true fascism. GROW UP.

JinTX of 7:06PM January 27, 2009

F. Brown - you seem to be up in arms about our RIGHTS yet you don't even know what the roles, rights and functions of our government are.

Obama cannot do most of what you list. Read the constitution before you start claiming that the rights secured by it have been violated.

JinTX of TX 6:57PM January 27, 2009

In the Words of Our Enemies reveals:

What the Islamists themselves are saying about their plans for America--nuclear devastation, followed by Islamic sharia law

How Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is leading a radical anti-American revolution that aims to increase Iranian influence in our hemisphere

Why China's plans go beyond regional hegemony to driving the United States out of the Pacific

How even allegedly "friendly" countries, like Russia, are conspiring against us

How the most violent and hate-inspiring Islamic ideology comes from sermons written and read by our "ally" Saudi Arabia's government-backed Wahabbi clergy - which, because they are official, are tantamount to Saudi government statements

How many countries have threatened using nuclear weapons against America (it's more than you think)

How, five years before September 11, Osama bin Laden had made clear his intentions to strike the United States by any and every means

Islamic "hate factories": how from the Palestinian West Bank to the holiest mosques in Saudi Arabia and Iran -- as well as on television, radio, and from hundreds of other podiums - leading Muslim clerics preach the "right" of Muslims to commit terror and to subject all "infidels" to Muslim rule

Excerpts from some Islamist websites that beg to be read in the context of the Democrats' hell-bent desire to force the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq

What al Qaeda's official training manual teaches about beating and killing hostages

Leading Islamic clerics give their views on topics such as "The Entire Earth Must Be Subjected to Islam" and "We Have the Right to Kill 4 Million Americans"

What the al Qaeda terrorists and others are saying and doing, continuously, to foment violence in Iraq

How Islamists are trying to turn secular Turkey into an Islamist state

How dangerous is North Korea's Kim Jong Il to America and its interests abroad? Let him speak for himself

Russia's Vladimir Putin on al Jazeera -- denying that terrorists exist, defending Iran and its nuclear program, and more

T.Brooks of OH 6:18AM January 26, 2009

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