The Obama Presidential Progress Thread

[Mike Ellis]

Here we shall capture Holy Obama's Presidential accomplishments. If I miss anything, chime in boys and I will edit it so we have a running record.

Day 1: 20 January 2009
- Held enormously lavish inauguration
- Inauguration preacher urges Whitey to "back what's right"

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.

Text of Rev. Lowery's inauguration benediction - Yahoo! News

- Limbers up arm to sign into law HR 3963, which expands the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). For an extra $25 billion, this will provide health insurance coverage to several million more kids, including children of illegal aliens.
- Makes plans to reverse "Mexico City" accord on abortion.
- Rolls out re-tooled White House website proclaiming "Change Has Come to America", as well as articles and quotes wrapping him in the mantles of MLK and Lincoln
- Issues Proclamation designating 20 Jan 2009 an official "Day of Renewal and Reconciliation"

A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation

Moments ago, in his first official act since taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation, calling on Americans to serve one another and our common purpose on this National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation. Check it out below, or read it on the WhiteHouse.gov proclamations page.

NATIONAL DAY OF RENEWAL AND RECONCILIATION, 2009

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders, renewed by the courage and decency of the American people, and fortified by my faith in an awesome God.

We are in the midst of a season of trial. Our Nation is being tested, and our people know great uncertainty. Yet the story of America is one of renewal in the face of adversity, reconciliation in a time of discord, and we know that there is a purpose for everything under heaven.

On this Inauguration Day, we are reminded that we are heirs to over two centuries of American democracy, and that this legacy is not simply a birthright -- it is a glorious burden. Now it falls to us to come together as a people to carry it forward once more.

So in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, let us remember that: "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2009, a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, and call upon all of our citizens to serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

Day 2: 21 January 2009
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