Lets Keep Score

After conversations with several friends, including my Dad, there’s a sense from the right side of the room that the world is going to end now with Obama as pres. elect. This seems odd from the same people who were saying that the president really doesn’t have that much impact for the last eight years. From the left, there’s a realization that there’s been a lot heaped on to his shoulders. Now we’re tempted to parrot the same “not much impact” argument. Screw that, lets keep score.

The Obama Checklist

[Note: This is a first draft, and will be added to and formatting refined over time. I'll not remove anything though]

The Right’s list:

1. Obama swears into office on the Koran
2. Obama has a meeting makes part of the cabinet or meets with in the oval office with any of the following:
   • Bin-Laden
   • Ayers
   • Louis Farrakhan 
3. Obama uses the second amendment to clean up the new puppy’s “mistakes”
   • Requires all guns to be registered
   • Raises taxes by at least three orders of magnitude on ammo or guns
   • National ban on automatic rifles
   • National ban on handguns
   • National ban on standard hunting rifles or shotguns
   • National ban on all guns
4. We become a communist country, abandoning the free-market
5. We pull out of Iraq with our tails between our legs looking like little babies
6. Abortions rates will increase exponentially durning his term
7. Obama will meet with Putin and pee down his leg, and give back Alaska
8. Obama will meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and Syria in the oval office, pee down his leg, allow them to gain nuclear weapons, and Israel will be destroyed
9. Obama outlaws Christianity, turning the US into either an Atheist or Islamic nation
10. Obama turns out to be the antichrist

Okay, now for the left’s list:

1. Many of the expanded powers of the Patriot Act will be allowed to expire
2. Bin-Laden is caught and/or killed
3. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are successful and our men and women can finally start coming home
4. Torture is no longer the official policy of the US
5. The US begins to develop its own sources of energy, many green jobs are created, reliance on middle-eastern oil is reduced, and actual action is taken on global warming
6. There is a net increase of gun ownership during his term and gun violence goes down
7. Healthcare is reformed. More people get it and costs go down
8. Educational reform is implemented with more resources for teacher along with more accountability
9. The national debt goes down
10. Policies will change based on evidence