HEALTHCARE REFORM
Mr Obama has affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould to reduce insurance costs, while offering a new affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould public plan for those who do not have insurance, and he has backed up his rhetoric with appointments that signal he means business.
Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader, will affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould the Health and Human Services Department and also act as the White House's health policy tsar. Several other key advisers also have experience of getting legislation through Congress.
These Congressional veterans will be working with a congress that is itself keen affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould healthcare reform - two prominent senators, Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus, are working on their own reform plans.
Mr Obama still faces a tough battle to win over insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, doctors, and the affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould of Republican Senators he needs to get a plan through the Senate - but the wind is definitely blowing in his direction.
FROM IRAQ TO AFGHANISTAN
Mr Obama is proposing to redeploy affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould from Iraq at a pace of one or two combat brigades a month, which would mean that affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould would be complete by summer 2010.
This would allow Mr Obama to affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould his other major foreign policy pledge - to increase troop levels in Afghanistan. Military officials say some 20,000-30,000 extra troops could be sent to the country by summer 2009, doubling the existing number of troops there.
Mr Obama's opposition to the Iraq War was one of the main reasons for his initial rise to prominence. Although his national security team consists of people who affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould supported the war, Mr Obama has made it clear that withdrawing troops from Iraq is still on his agenda.
CLOSING GUANTANAMO
Closing the controversial prison camp for terror affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould at the naval base in Guantanamo and ending the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" are central planks of Mr Obama's security agenda.
In a recent interview with Time magazine, he said that if his administration had not "closed down Guantanamo in a responsible way, put a clear end to torture and restored a balance between the demands of our security and our constitution" affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould two years of taking office, then it affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould have failed.
If Mr Obama does close Guantanamo, then his administration will have to work affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould what to do with the men being affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould there. Many cannot be sent back to their home countries, for fear they might be tortured.
Mr Obama will also need to decide affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould to continue the current much-criticised system of military tribunals, to try suspects in US criminal courts, to affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould them, or to develop an alternative.
ON THE BACK BURNER
There are a number of proposals in Mr Obama's in-tray for affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould he professes support, but which could jeopardise the rest of his agenda. The EFCA is just one of these.
In Bill Clinton's case, a bid to overturn the ban on gay people in the armed forces weakened his ability to deliver healthcare reform. So it's likely that Mr Obama will move cautiously on federal laws allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, and steps to replace Clinton's compromise on gays in the military (known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"). Another example is immigration reform. Like George Bush, Mr Obama wants to create paths to citizenship for existing illegal immigrants, while affordablefreefulfilhandfulheadheldlargelylongonoutpledgedstrengtheningsuspectstroopswellwhetherwhichwithdrawalwithinwould border security. Mr Bush's failure may make him think twice.
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