Barack Obama
While I'm ignoring Rick Warren, I would like to repeat the question Robin Hanson asked: "what does Obama have to do for you to consider him a "good" president, or even better than Bush? It is enough for you that he is (part) black and a Democrat?" What would he have to do to be a good President? What would he have to do to be a great President?
I think any of the following are big enough things to be better than just a caretaker:
I think any of the following are big enough things to be better than just a caretaker:
- Carbon tax, or effective equivalent
- Significant moves toward a local, nonchemical food system
- Providing enough resources to an investigation of the Bush administration
- I can go to a doctor without worrying about who's accepted where and for how much
- An effective model for free trade that requires other countries to live up to our standards
- An end to some part of the drug war
- Serious funding for renewable energy and a commitment to it
- New, strong environmental protections that bother current extraction industries
- Policies that effectively discourage sprawl and encourage urbanization