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pax
01/24/09

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I posted my happiness about this on my Facebook page and it brought out some anti-choicers amongst my friends. I imagine the classiest way to respond is to say nothing, since I think the original post speaks for itself. Hate when that happens, though.
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HereComesMyBaby
01/24/09

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YAY! I will celebrate by eating fetuses!
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onestrawplz
01/24/09

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Obama has done more good in 3 days than Bush did in 8 years.
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Ms. Crankypants
01/23/09

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I was in a bad mood & now it's gone! Thanks Mr. President.
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FourInchHeels
01/23/09

@Ms. Crankypants: What? Crankypants was in a bad mood? Ohhh irony.
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meetkimgordon
01/23/09

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in the past two days i have sent two e-mails to the president to thank him for his grand executive orders, first gitmo now this. i never thought i would be this lady who loves her executive branch but i am! i can't wait to see what cool shit barack does on monday!
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MockMyWorld
01/23/09

@meetkimgordon: And Obama seems like the kind of president who might actually take ten minutes out of his workday to READ a sample of the emails the White House is getting, and who would be able to do that on his own, without asking his aides how.

And even if he doesn't, you know his failure would be due to the overwhelming volume of information coming his way, NOT to any hostility to uncensored information per se or the technology used to convey it. And that in itself is a delightful change. I love Obama's tech-friendly worldview, and find his BlackBerry addiction especially adorable. I'm so glad he's getting to keep it!
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tscheese
01/23/09

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I just broke down in tears. I just got home, opened up my laptop, and saw this. I couldn't get on Jez all day, but you guys, we are doing this. We elected a guy who is making things happen.

Sure, right now he's doing the no-brainer stuff that he can do via simple executive orders; bigger changes take weeks and months to shape and approve and get through Congress and implement. But the guy hasn't stopped bringing the change since the minute he got sworn in. I'm optimistic, for the first time in eight years.
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tscheese
01/23/09

@tscheese: And I didn't meant to say that executive orders are simple, and I didn't mean that closing Gitmo / taking down the Gag Rule are necessarily easy or quick decisions. It's just that, in the first three days in office, he's availing himself of the decision-making power that can make changes happen quickly, and that is what is making my heart thrill with hope.
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PrettyPrettyPrincess
01/23/09

@tscheese: me too, I haz the happy tears. I was holding out for this one for some reason. Repealing the gag law and closing gitmo, those were my markers, now I really feel like it's happening - the change we voted for. It's an amazing feeling.
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chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
01/23/09

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Nicely done, sir. Ooh, ooh, is that stem cell research I hear warming up in the wings...?
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pax
01/23/09

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Way to build goodwill among the oppressed people of the world, President Obama! Keep it moving!
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Leigh
01/23/09

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For those of you who have to respond to people who don't want their tax dollars supporting abortions, please let them know that no one can use US tax dollars to provide or promote abortion services overseas. The Helms amendment to the Foreign Operations appropriations bill, renewed annually by Congress since 1973, forbids it. ([www.usaid.gov]).
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veronykah
01/23/09

@Leigh: Can we get rid of that amendment while we're at it?
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sybann
01/23/09

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Barry - you are so turning me on.
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stoprobbers
01/23/09

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Let me tell you 'bout a boy I know
He's my Prez and he lives next door
In the morning when the sun coms up
He's in a meeting, to help lift me up
That's how I know, yes I know
Hallelujah I love him so

When I'm in trouble and I have no friend
I know he's thinkin' 'bout me 'till the end
Everybody asks me how I know
I say look at what he's fightin' fo'
That's how I know, yes I know
Hallelujah I love him so

Now, if he sees my rights are being gagged
My freedoms chained, my values bagged
By the time I count from one to four
He's made sure that I'm opppressed no more!

In the evening when the sun goes down
When there is nobody else around
He looks out from his White House pad
And knows America is gettin' rad
That's how I know, yes I know
Hallelujah, I love him so!
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rocknrollunicorn
01/23/09

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He was obviously just saving it up to give us the happiest Friday we've had in a long time. I take back any unkind sentiments from yesterday :)
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farmersdaughter
01/23/09

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A conservative friend was bitching at me today that "now we are funding abortions?" blah blah blah. For the record, he isn't even pro-life, he just gets fired up about government money being used for "stupid" things. So we had a little chat about how he should be thankful for anything involving a woman's right to choose or birth control, given his man-whore ways. He repented. I have a convert!
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pantsless economist...access RESTORED
01/23/09

@farmersdaughter: hooray! i wish more conservatives were like him.
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aubonpam
01/23/09

@farmersdaughter: That's amazing! I love it when that happens
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muppetprincess
01/23/09

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I think it is particularly awesome that he didn't call a huge press conference and make a big stink, he just quietly did the right thing. Isn't that how all our mommas told us was the way to behave?
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Hana Maru
01/23/09

@muppetprincess: I'm glad he rescinded the rule, but I think it would have been particularly awesome if he could be out and proud about advocating the right to choice.
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mllej
01/23/09

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Awesome. On day 4. The sheer awesomeness is making me tear up.
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