Obama says he appreciates Bush's help

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Obama says he appreciates Bush's help
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 7, 3:15 pm ET

CHICAGO – President-elect Obama says he is appreciative of the cooperation that President Bush has offered in smoothing his transition to the White House.

He said "we only have one president at a time." Obama also told reporters Friday that he's confident that "a new president can have an enormous impact. " But Obama also said that he understands that until next Jan. 20, the current administration is in charge.

He said he also appreciated Bush's "commitment that his economic policy team keep us informed." He also said he was "grateful" that he has invited Obama and his wife, Michelle, to the White House on Monday.

He said he expected to have a substantive conversation with Bush at that time and that "I am not going to anticipate problems."

Obama said he wants to go into the talks with Bush with "a spirt of bipartisanship and a sense that both the president and various leaders of Congress all recognize the severity of the situation right now."

[timvp]

These quotes can't go over too well with Obamatards. They'd rather Obama spit in W's face and kick his dog.

[GuerillaBlack]

Fine with me.

[TheProfessor]

These quotes can't go over too well with Obamatards. They'd rather Obama spit in W's face and kick his dog.
He conducts himself as a statesman. Why would anyone expect otherwise?

[boutons_]

Obama is surfing on a huge wave of good will.

Kicking dubya when the extremely unpopular dubya is already in the sewer of history would be pointless and counterproductive.

Everybody knows Obama is shackled by so much of the shit and poison pills inherited from dubya that options for "change" will be limited, but Obama has to try, was elected to try to affect change away from dubya's disastrous administration.

I'd love to see Obama shutdown the bailout of the criminal financial sector that has crippled the world's economy while stuffing their pockets. I expect Paulsen will accelerate his redistribution of taxpayer wealth to the wealthy and corps now that his tenure as socialist-in-chief is in doubt.

[TheMadHatter]

This is why Obama will be such a great President in the next 8 years.

This motherfucker is Cool Hand Luke.

[Nbadan]

He conducts himself as a statesman. Why would anyone expect otherwise?

True.....why would anyone expect anything less....Dubya may be an SOB but the only thing he has to worry about now is his legacy...

[Nbadan]

While Obama may 'apreciated Dubya's help' in this transition he is also getting ready to reverse as many as 200 Bush policies...


Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.

A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition.

In some instances, Obama would be quickly delivering on promises he made during his two-year campaign, while in others he would be embracing Clinton-era policies upended by President Bush during his eight years in office.

"The kind of regulations they are looking at" are those imposed by Bush for "overtly political" reasons, in pursuit of what Democrats say was a partisan Republican agenda, said Dan Mendelson, a former associate administrator for health in the Clinton administration's Office of Management and Budget. The list of executive orders targeted by Obama's team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush's appointees are rushing to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy.

Washington POst (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801856.html?hpid=topnews)

The good news just keeps on coming....

[ChumpDumper]

Dubya may be an SOB but the only thing he has to worry about now is his legacy...Right. About the only thing he can hope to do now is broker some new agreement regarding the Palestinians. It is no coincidence that he sent Condi there the day after the election.

[Anti.Hero]

This is why Obama will be such a great President in the next 8 years.

This motherfucker is Cool Hand Luke.

slurp slurp slurp slurp

[baseline bum]

I wonder if Obama appreciates the huge fucking hole Bush put the country in too.

[Spur-Addict]

slurp slurp slurp slurp

I guess he'd rather suck it, as opposed to taking it in the ass. I could be wrong.

[boutons_]

FDA: captured by BigPharma, but totally subservient to BigPharma after dubya filled FDA with BigPharma and Repug hacks.

Interior: totally compromised into being a dept of BigOil, polluters, BigCoal, land developers, loggers.

DoJ: totally raped and politicized.

NSA/FBI/CIA: dozens of career professionals driven out or retired due to Repug political operatives

Anybody with even the slightest whiff of neo-c*nt about them needs to be fired.

The real, lasting damage was all the radical right judges appointed by dubya.

Obama should increase SCOTUS to 11 and appoint 2 centers/progressives to offset the pro-business/anti-citizen conservative judges.

FEMA needs to escape from the suffocating DHS and totally re-built with disaster professionals as it was under Clinton.

So much dubya shit throughout govt, will Obama have enough shovels to throw it all out?