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Change We Can See

I try not to be an Obama zombie, but if he’s doing what he says he will — how can you not like the man? He’s shown, so far, that he’s the kind of man says what he means, means what he says and does what he says he will do.

Put simply, we were eating really bland junk food and now we’ve got steaks.

In the first few days Obama has been the president of the U.S., he has set the bar pretty high by making changes to the way Washington does business, some major and some minor.

Here are the ones I could come up with-

• Ordered a freeze on new regulations
• Started a plan for withdrawal from Iraq
• Ordered the closure of CIA prisons
• Stopped allowing torture and instead requires interrogations to go by the Army Field Manual
• Ordered increased governmental transparency over the coming months
• Banned aides from attempts at influencing the administration when they leave his staff
• Banned gifts from lobbyists to anyone in the administration
• Overturned the Gag rule which prohibited aid from going toward any organization that mentioned abortion as an option in family planning
• Asked Sun Chairman Scott McNealy to author a white paper on the benefits of using open source for the government as a whole

And that’s just the first week or so. What will he do in his four years as president?

I don’t know but if it’s anything like this, America really is back, baby.