happy days are here again

in addition to renouncing torture, promising greater transparency, etc., he's now eliminated the ban on federally funded stem-cell research and the gag rule in third world countries that prohibited any discussion whatsoever of abortion by any of the private family-planning groups if they accept federal funds---and dept. of interior (i.e., national park service) is doing a "study" (probably the standard public process required of most federal actions by the national historic preservation act and the national environmental policy act) with a goal of re-opening the crown of the statue of liberty, which bush had closed after 9/11 in order to "protect america"---obama is ending bush's "war on terror," clearly headed toward the diplomacy and police action they should've followed in the first place---

random fact: tourists could climb to the torch until they closed it during world war 1