Obama's second-term agenda

Politico44 ^ | 6/11/12 | BYRON TAU

[ColdOne]

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza looks at what President Obama and his advisors hope to accomplish in a second-term:

Obama has an ambitious second-term agenda, which, at least in broad ways, his campaign is beginning to highlight. The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change, one of the few issues that he thinks could fundamentally improve the world decades from now. He also is concerned with containing nuclear proliferation. In April, 2009, in one of the most notable speeches of his Presidency, he said, in Prague, “I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” He conceded that the goal might not be achieved in his lifetime but promised to take “concrete steps,” including a new treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.

In 2010, Obama negotiated a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Russians and won its passage in the Senate. But, despite his promise to “immediately and aggressively” ratify the C.N.T.B.T., he never submitted it for ratification. As James Mann writes in “The Obamians,” his forthcoming book on Obama’s foreign policy, “The Obama administration crouched, unwilling to risk controversy and a Senate fight for a cause that the President, in his Prague speech, had endorsed and had promised to push quickly and vigorously.” As with climate change, Obama’s early rhetoric and idealism met the reality of Washington politics and his reluctance to confront Congress.

Obama’s advisers say it is more likely that the President would champion an issue with greater bipartisan support, such as immigration reform.

[Biggirl]

Obama is “one and DONE”.

[tbpiper]

The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change

That assumes, of course, he can fix the economy by next Thursday.

[Tenacious 1]

He could improve a lot of environments if he would just stop campaigning, sit his but at the a desk in DC and wait for the elections.

[SampleMan]

Obama's next 4-year plan? Soviet style shopping.

[ryan71]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_urvjCXg6c

[Signalman]

[mojito]

What a great agenda!

Unilateral disarmament and crippling what's left of the productive capacity of the US energy industry with punitive taxes to support “climate change.”

How progressive! And if you think that Barry was a nasty little commie in his first term, just wait!

You haven't seen how nasty, little, and commie our Barry can be.

[KeyLargo]

There has been something going around conservative talk that this book “The Amatuer” author Klein or someone said that Obama’s ‘talks’ with imaginary persons made up by him is like Norman Bates talking to his mother.

I have been unable to find the quote or who said it?

[New Jersey Realist]

Hopefully the turd’s second term will be a 10 year stint in Federal prison doing hard labor.

[The Great RJ]

Obama's second term:

• Use a manufactured "Reichstag fire" crisis to implement the emergency powers he gave himself by executive order
• Use these emergency powers to shutdown and censor the Internet and "detain" dissents
• Use new FCC "Fairness Rules" to muzzle talk radio and Fox News
• Use drone technology to spy on US citizens and enforce new levels of regulations
• Create a "National Service Corps" army of brown shirts
• Declare himself President for Life (dictator)