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After 8 years as the somewhat commander in chief, President Bush has issued approximately 279 executive orders. As your read the list, some of the orders just do not make sense while other are controversial and are clearly based on Bush’s influenced by the vast and very vocal Christian right played – a major part in his two term success. The fact is had Bush not cultivated the Christian right as his power base or courted its leadership as his informal advisors, re-election would have been impossible for him.
Bush’s gesture of appreciation to his informal advisors – Christian right was to signed the controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
It was no surprise in October 2008 when in an open letter to the American people, 76 Nobel Laureates from the scientific community endorsed Barack for the Presidency. The Nobel Laureates wrote, "The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness."
Obama’s pro-research stance is not a secret. The Obama team have indicated that it is composing a list of hundreds of actions taken by incumbent George W. Bush for reversal.
President also signed a secret executive order approving the use of torture against prisoners captured in his "war on terror" – including thousands of innocent people rounded up in Iraq and crammed into Saddam Hussein’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison and American’s concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for Congressional action, and I think we’ll see the president do that," John D. Podesta, the head of Obama’s transition team, said on CBS’s "Face the Nation".
"He feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set."
He has made clear his intention to scrap as many as 200 of Bush’s most controversial decisions during the past eight years.
"Senator Obama said that he wanted all the Bush executive orders reviewed, and decide which ones should be kept, and which ones should be repealed, and which ones should be amended," noted Podesta, a former chief of staff in President Clinton’s administration.
Obama is expected to reverse Bush’s executive orders on issues as diverse as oil drilling and stem cell research.
"You see the Bush administration even today moving aggressively to do things that I think are probably not in the interest of the country," Podesta said.
"They want to have oil and gas drilling in some of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah that they’re going to try to do right as they are walking out the door. I think that’s a mistake."
Throughout his presidency, Bush has made liberal use of his executive authority to put a stamp on a range of hot-button policy issues.
He has allowed oil and gas drilling in the western state of Utah and restricted the embryonic stem cell research.
In 2001, Bush reinstated the so-called global gag rule to ban government aid to international family planning groups advising women on abortion.
"It will have been eight years that we have been operating in a limited funding environment," Larry Soler, a board member of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, told the New York Times.
"I think everyone in the scientific community and the patient community is geared up and expecting this and excited to make this happen," he added.
Sound Off: Let president-elect Obama know which one of Bush’s Executive you want suspended.
For a list of Bush’s Executive orders see http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/orders/
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