Count faith-based initiatives as one Bush program that President Obama does not plan on rolling back. In fact, Obama will “expand the mission to include abortion reduction and outreach to the Muslim world,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Obama will name Jason DuBois, a 26-year-old campaign adviser, to head the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Parternships. Obama plans to determine whether organizations that receive tax money can make hiring decisions based on religion on a case by case basis. According to the Journal, “the president will sign an executive order making clear that the director of the new office should seek guidance from the Department of Justice on specific legal issues regarding ‘how to respect the Constitution’ and nondiscrimination laws.”

If Obama truly respected the constitution he would know that it clearly calls for a seperation of church and state.

Giving organized religion: tax exempt status, the right to own property, taxpayer money to spread their propaganda, and the chance to hold presidental debates has turned this country into a theocracy.

The Catholic church decided long ago it was the church of the rich and powerful.

Why else does the pope live in a palace surrounded by priceless works of art while people are starving around the world?

It's called do as I say and not as I do.

President Obama’s limiting of executive compensation was mostly applauded, but the restriction on banks receiving "exceptional assistance" (aka bailout money) might not have the effect everyone desires, as some say executives will find ways to negotiate around the $500,000 salary limit imposed on senior employees. Some of the highest earners—traders, brokers, and salespeople—aren't executives at all, notes the Associated Press, and others may move to foreign firms and hedge funds, or transition to boutique firms to save their salaries. President Obama said, "What gets people upset—and rightfully so—are executives being rewarded for failure. Especially when those rewards are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers," but compensation experts say the limit will affect only five to 25 employees per bank, and David Schmidt, senior consultant on executive pay at James F. Reda & Associates, said, "There's plenty of wiggle room…There's no constraints below the senior executive level, so the question becomes, will the restrictions trickle down?"

The answer of course is no.

1. over $700 billion in corporate welfare

2. $40 billion increase in military spending

3. more money for organized religion to spread bigotry and intolerence

Obama has failed 3 major tests:

1. economic reform

2. military budget

3. civil rights

Just February 6th and Barack Obama has already managed to not only sustain the worst features of the G.W. Bush presidency but to expand them.

How's this for irony: Eric McFadden, a former aide to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, was arrested Wednesday. According to the Columbus Dispatch, he's charged with "seven prostitution-related counts" including "promoting prostitution, pandering obscenities involving a minor and compelling prostitution."

Where's the irony in that, you ask? Until fall 2007, McFadden worked for Strickland as director of the state's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Columbus police are calling him the "guru" of prostitution in the city, saying he's been involved in it for six years. According to the Dispatch, he was allegedly part of a ring operated on the Web that ran a raffle for sex and led to the creation of a brothel. Police also say he posted positive reviews of a 17-year-old prostitute

The knock on Candidate Obama was that he put style ahead of substance. Who knew what he was going to do (and who cared)? It was all about how he was going to do it -- with bipartisanship and ethics and a new era of "responsibility." Now comes the reckoning. President Obama is being judged not on the what, but the how.

His first full day in office, Mr. Obama imposed the "most sweeping ethics reform in history," barring officials from working on issues on which they'd lobbied in recent years. Then came the realization that a lot of really smart people hadn't just sat around for years waiting for him to give them government jobs, but had used their expertise for private profit.

What followed was a succession of waivers granting several top officials immunity from the rules.

From now until 2012, he'll be flyspecked for every interaction with a special interest, lobbyist, wealthy individual, or Republican. The problem with lofty aspirations is that at some point they meet reality.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123388281570455005.html

can spread more hate and bigotry too.

We don't have health care but do have record unemployment, how nice that Obama uses taxpayer money to help spread more intolerence in the world.

I'd hate to see what the extreme right wing will do.

Any chance we can get them to bomb the vatican instead?

I think he'll like Hannity just fine.

They can go gay bashing together.

or increasing funding for "faith based intitives" so they can spread more bigotry and intolerance.