Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

In his first week as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama has so far failed to disappoint, making several important executive orders. Here's some of the highlights:

Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo
President Obama freezes WH staff salaries
Obama signs the orders closing Guantanamo prison
Obama Reaffirms FP Campaign Pledges
Obama Overturns Bush Records Secrecy Order

By far a very eventful week! Hopefully the rest of his first hundred days are as constructive in fixing the mistakes of the last regime. My favorite act by far, and also the most unexpected, I think is the over-turning of the secrecy order. No one but the president himself should ever have the authority to claim executive privilege. On top of all that he also re-took the oath of office to shut up people like the ever douchey Chris Wallace. Stay classy fox!

Democratic Primary is Over

Just watched this vid a little bit ago from Crooks and Liars. It's Obama's speech from last night, the last night of the Democratic Primary for this coming election. After our discussion over Skype, watching this, and Hillary's speech from last night, I cant help but wonder if they are actually going to run together. A good portion of his speech is praise for Hillary and a sureness of her involvement in the years to come. It seemed as though he was prepping his supporters to accept her. Hillary's speech did not mention throwing in the towel, despite the fact that numerically she can no longer win the nomination. She simply thanks her supporters and makes no mention of what's to come. Both campaigns have broken records for fund raising and getting people involved in voting and it's not even the general election. If they combined the momentum of their campaigns in terms of people involvement and fund raising, I'd be pretty surprised if they wouldn't completely steamroll McCain at the polls in November. On the flip side, I don't think that Obama would need Hillary to clinch a victory in November. Perhaps he will choose Edwards as his running mate, but I think there's a strong likeliness that the two former foes will join forces. Time will tell.

Worst. President. Ever.

It's numerically official folks. He has the lowest approval rating of any president in the history of our country. There has been tough competition for the prestigious title in American history, but our good ol monkey looking boy takes the cake. Hit the link to see what he was up against.

Worse than Watergate