Healthy.

[prog]

So, the country is set to walk a sane path again - can you believe it? - and I had my last PT session today, as well as a flu shot. My hip isn't popping (nearly as much) any more and I'm told the relevant muscles are much stronger than they were a month ago. Yay

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[dangerforce]

Obama has actually said that among his first actions in office will be to pass executive orders to overturn any Bush admin ex. orders that are found to be unconstitutional. (The other is to go through the federal budget line by line).

This is something he can do unilaterally, and as a former professor of constitutional law, I think he has the good standing to perform this function.

[cramerica]

^That's great. I hadn't heard him say it explicitly.

[ahkond]

Agreed about the constitutionality. I'm a fan of Salon.com blogger/columnist Glenn Greenwald, who said this last Sunday:

It certainly seems, by all appearances, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will win on Tuesday (though anything can happen, don't assume anything, etc. etc.). For reasons I've explained many times before, I consider that to be a good and important outcome (principally due to the need to excise the Right from power for as long as possible). But the virtually complete absence from the presidential campaign of any issues pertaining to the executive power abuses of the last eight years -- illegal eavesdropping, torture, rendition, due-process-less detentions, the abolition of habeas corpus, extreme and unprecedented secrecy, general executive lawlessness -- reflects how much further work and effort will be required to make progress on these issues no matter what happens on Tuesday

[in_parentheses]

As far as I can tell, Obama's true campaign platform was less "My policies are the best" and more "This is who we can be".

Yes, exactly. Well said.

[misuba]

I'm pretty sure you're allowed to just write to the president.

[prog]

My impression is that the only people who exercise this are schoolchildren and the insane, and I assume that letters not from one will be treated as from the other.

It might be worth doing anyway just as an exercise, I guess.

[misuba]

They are very likely, for all political offices, mostly from old people, who are of course legendarily frequent voters. So they get read by some aide, at least far enough in to get a sense for what issue they are either for or against, then counted and discarded and answered with a form letter. A random and/or exciting few get some more dignified sort of treatment. The office of the President likely does exactly this same thing, only with more aides.

It is more worth it than sending an email, and maybe marginally more worth it than a phone call.

[dougo]

Try this!