1. No Public Option for Health Care: It wont be real reform if this is not included.
  2. Obama Admin Urges Israeli-Palestinian Final-Status Talks, but Abandons Insistence on Israeli Settlement Freeze: you cant have peace if you cant stop Israel from taking more land from the Palestinians.
  3. Failed To Push For Comprehensive Immigration reform: Millions of immigrants are being used for cheap labor and are not being brought into the American fold , thus they cant contribute with taxes and such.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, reading from his handwritten notes of Obama’s  U.N  speech, told the General Assembly on Thursday how moved he was by the new U.S. president’s assertion that no country should dominate another, but he expressed frustration that Obama has not acted more firmly to implement that policy.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Lift the savage, murderous embargo” on Cuba, he said. “Are there two Obamas? I would like to believe the Obama I listened to yesterday.”

“It doesn’t smell of sulfur here anymore. It smells of hope,” he said. “Obama, come over to the socialist side! Join the axis of evil, and we’ll build an economy at the service of the people.”

Chavez said Obama reminded him of president John F. Kennedy, whom he said he admired for his intelligence.

“I hope God will protect Obama from the bullets that killed Kennedy,” he said.

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New Briefer-in-Chief

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For much of the last two months, Robert Gibbs has been attending press secretary school. Today, the dress rehearsals ended. At 1:39 p.m., it was finally show time for the first White House press briefing of the new administration.
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On other matters, Calderon’s office said Sunday in a statement that he would press for “better conditions for Mexicans in the United States, based on respect for their rights,” and may express concerns over stepped-up migrant raids.

Calderon expected a friendly reception from Obama, who last year supported an unsuccessful immigration reform bill that would have given millions of undocumented migrants a path to citizenship.

That measure, championed by President George W. Bush, died in Congress. Some lawmakers called it amnesty.

Calderon is also visiting leaders of Congress during his stay in Washington. He comes to the White House for a final sit-down with Bush on Tuesday.

During his presidential campaign, Obama raised the prospect of revisiting the North American Free Trade Agreement and attempting to negotiate more protections for U.S. workers.

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