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Obama: I Never Discussed My Seat With Blago

Prez-elect talks policy priorities, scandal in wide-ranging interview

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Dec 10, 2008 10:05 AM CST
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(Newser) – The president-elect opined on a variety of issues with the Los Angeles Times yesterday, including how his name will be announced at inauguration (Barack Hussein Obama, as per tradition):

  • Priorities: He'll start with "a serious investment" in infrastructure for "a green-energy economy."
  • Centrist Cabinet: He's not retracting his liberal campaign promises, and the "proof of the pudding" will come in accomplishments.

  • Selective bailouts: Regulation could have prevented the crisis, but it's no time to punish the auto industry, manufacturing's "backbone."
  • Muslim world relations: He'll be "unrelenting" in building goodwill, which includes his campaign promise of speaking from an Islamic capital.
  • Unions: "I want to strengthen the union movement in this country."
  • Free trade: He's all for it, and cautions against drawing "a moat around the American economy."

Obama says he'll keep an eye on long-term fiscal problems: I'm already going to be inheriting a trillion-dollar deficit, even before we get started.
Obama says he'll keep an eye on long-term fiscal problems: "I'm already going to be inheriting a trillion-dollar deficit, even before we get started."   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Among Obama's top priorities are starting a green-energy economy that boosts jobs and reverses the recession.
Among Obama's top priorities are starting a "green-energy" economy that boosts jobs and reverses the recession.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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We're inheriting probably the most crowded agenda that any president has inherited in a very, very long time. - Barack Obama

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Shannonals
Dec 19, 2008 12:36 AM CST
Those who can accomplish great things do, those that can't whine and complain about the action of others
Zebraone
Dec 10, 2008 9:21 PM CST
Agenda? He's just fast with his footwork~~ Reacting to which way the wind blows. Old proverb: 'The reed grows in the direction of least resistance'
Zebraone
Dec 10, 2008 9:17 PM CST
Sho' nuff!~~~ Never discusse the vacant seat, but how about the one he bought for his springboard to the "presidency"

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