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It was a "He's not George W Bush" award I think. The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when Obama won. The US under republicans was increasingly disliked by the world as they continued to invade countries, make hostile statements towards other countries, build up the military to unprecedented levels and violate human rights. Quite frankly they were not helping world peace in any way, only lining the pockets of the industrial military complex and killing a lot of people with bombs.

But what has Obama done?
- Guantanamo is still open
- CIA torture camps still exist
- Still in Afghanistan, with a worsening situation and we all know it will never end (see Russians in the 80s).
- Still in Iraq
- Patriot act just got it's extension as did the warrantless wiretaps and detention of American citizens
- Still throwing ludicrous amounts of money at the military, haliburton, blackwater
- Hasn't found the BILLIONS 'lost' by the department of defense in Iraq.
- Still mechanations about invading Iran floating around, after that probably Syria and Pakistan and so on.

While Obama has been speaking about peace, he hasn't achieved anything yet, the financial crisis saw to that. IMO he should have held back on health care, the lobbyists are controling that discussion and FOX news are spreading too much FUD to have an adequate debate. Many people are also too focused on their self interest to pay another 2% tax to cover health care for all Americans.

The health care debate has slowed Obama down, I want to see movement in other areas and a less authoritarian America. I want financial sector action, the crooks took the public money and are back to their dodgy ways already, Obama needs to address this before people forget how devastating the financial crisis was.

More action, less talk.