MICHAEL MOORE'S ADVICE TO OBAMA

Poor President-elect Obama is being swamped with ideas, requests, and reminders of what he said on the campaign trail and what we now expect of him. Myself, I had a fuzzy, unformulated idea of what Obama should do next. Having a sense of his person..I expected the best. But yesterday, I happened to turn on the TV and caught Michael Moore on Larry King Live. Moore always looks so seedy, and rumpled and he is not a great speaker. Like many of us he stumbles and works perhaps too hard with the spoken word..but he has ideas and thankfully, a gift with formulating and expressing them on film. His films changed the way the our nation thinks. As the award-winning director of the famous "Sicko" which perhaps more than any other single media event changed how we look at the health-care system, Moore transcends his looks and his words. So I stopped surfing awhile and listened. As usual, Moore was worthwhile.

When Larry King asked what he expected of Obama's presidency, Moore answered with the follwoing short statement which I recommend to you. Hopefully you might even post the lines up somewhere on the refrigerator or the bathroom mirror. It's what we all want of the Obama presidency in a few short sentences. (See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-KawFvrcw4).

Moore began : "Well I hope he's listening, if he takes my advice...here's what I'd say. Hit the ground running. We don't have that much time...the Republicans will be back and these things have to get done. End that war in Iraq and bring back the troops. We can use that ten billion dollars a month here in the US. Start a Manhattan project for energy like FDR..
And make sure the rich pay for that mess of Wall Street.! Revisit that $800 billion slush fund that Bush agreed to. When you make a mess..you gotta clean it up. Don't put the burden on the people who didn't cause the problem. And get us all the universal health care we need. "

Main ideas:

1-END THE WAR IN IRAQ--BRING THE TROOPS HOME
2-START A MANHATTAN PROJECT FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
3- FIX THE MESS ON WALL STREET AND MAKE THE "PERPS" PAY FOR IT, NOT THE PEOPLE.
4-MAKE HEALTH CARE UNIVERSAL

These few lines cleared up my fuzzy expectations. And if enacted, they would certainly be an awsome accomplishment!