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Paul Rumelhart stated:<BR>
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"In my opinion, it's wrong to torture prisoners AND it's wrong to hold them indefinitely. If I'm understanding this correctly, Obama just failed us all here."<BR>
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Yes, Paul. That does tend to upset me.<BR>
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Yet, when examined amongst the other accomplishments of President Obama since January 20th (30 days ago) . . .<BR>
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Signed executive order establishing strict guidelines for lobbyist who want to work in the White House.<BR>
<A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-EthicsCommitments/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-EthicsCommitments/</A><BR>
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Announced executive pay caps<BR>
<A href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.executive.pay/">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.executive.pay/</A><BR>
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Signed executive order to close GITMO and secret CIA camps overseas<BR>
<A href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_alter_CIA_interrogation_detention_0122.html">http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_to_alter_CIA_interrogation_detention_0122.html</A><BR>
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Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, legislation to fight pay discrimination and ensure fundamental fairness to American workers.<BR>
<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKAKlurRAY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKAKlurRAY</A><BR>
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Signed the S-Chip legislation giving 4 million kids health insurance.<BR>
<A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1gCF9U2Cc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1gCF9U2Cc</A><BR>
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Cancelled 77 leases around Arch's National Park (Utah) that had been auctioned off to oil and gas companies.<BR>
<A href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008709435_drill04.html">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008709435_drill04.html</A><BR>
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Signed the Stimulus Bill<BR>
<A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100785745">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100785745</A><BR>
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I can overlook a little oversight.<BR>
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I am quite pleased . . . no make that impressed . . . with President Obama's first THIRTY days. Aren't you?<BR>
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Tom Hansen<BR>
Moscow, Idaho<BR>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go to work."</FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_EC_MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000>- Roy Zimmerman</FONT> <BR></P></body>
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