On Day One

The Better World Campaign asks what do you think the next president should do on his or her first day in office. Putting my "let's think about this overly literally" hat for a moment, what you probably want to do on day one is focus on a bunch of below-the-radar executive order type stuff that it'll be easy to make sure gets buried in the news because you also made a few important personnel announcements that the papers are obligated to cover.

Closer to the spirit of the question, I'd like to see an announcement disavowing the preventive war doctrine outlined by the Bush administration coupled with a statement outlining a vision for re-invigorating the global non-proliferation regime.

Comments

Send a plane to Gitmo, pick all the prisoners up, fly them back to the US. Then close Gitmo.

Posted by KEn | January 23, 2008 9:24 PM

Make a very public point of wiping the slate clean. Before Bush's flight from Washington lands, revoke his most egregious executive orders -- rendition and torture, restrictions on stem-cell and other scientific research, excessively long-term secrecy of presidential documents, God knows what other nefarious fine-print orders that flew under the media radar. (Job one for the transition team should be to excavate this stuff.)

Posted by allbetsareoff | January 24, 2008 5:20 PM

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Posted by jboonst1 | January 29, 2008 11:47 AM