I don't think there is anything more important than ending the undue influence on our government by Corporations and the rich. To that end it is time to end the ridiculous notion that Corporations are persons and are thus protected bythe Constitution. I've never heard anything so absurd! Once that has been done it is time to take back the financial system back fromt he private bankers and put it back in the hads of Congress. Why would we pay interest to private banks when we could print the money for free or pay ourselves the interest! Finally we need publically financed elections with instant-run-off voting to make our elections transparent, fair, and democratic. This will also eliminate "wasted" votes.  

It is not vindictive or resentful to demand that the crimes perpetrated by the Bush Administration be punished.  It must become abundantly clear, through the use of non-partisan judicial means that these were indeed crimes, and that the guilty, no matter how powerful or rich, must be punished for them.

To omit this crucial step towards reforming our nation leaves the very real possibility that the same crowd of henchmen will rise again the moment Obama stumbles (which everyone invariably does at one point or another.)  Had the Reagan crowd been put in prison for Iran/Contra by Clinton, half the criminals in the Bush regiem would have been behind bars.

Obama has a history of bringing opposite sides together, but this may wind up being his tragic flaw.  Be tough on corporate and political criminals and then make nice with the opposite side.  At least they'll respect whom they're dealing with.  They certainly never respected Clinton.

The Constitution must  be restored, including Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights, and the primacy among equals the Founders intended for the Congress. The Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and Obama's Compromised FISA Act must be repealed. Guantánamo and the secret CIA prisons must be shut down. Cheney/Bush' imperial wars of adventure in Iraq and Afghanistan must be ended, and the moral equivalent of war launched worldwide on the causes of terror; poverty, ignorance, pestilence, famine and war! If Madam Pelosi fails to impeach Cheney and his pipsqueak sidekick, and permits them to retire with impunity, they must be tried for treason against the Constitution and the Republic, for war crimes, and for crimes against humanity, and Madam Pelosi must be tried for complicity in their crimes and misdemeanors, having lent them aid and comfort. There must also be a real investigation into the very real evidence that 9/11 was indeed a self-inflicted atrocity perpetrated by Cheney and friends, probably including the cat's-paw bin Laden, as an excuse to invade the oil-rich Mid East.

The Bush Regime absolutely, positively MUST be punished for what they have done!  They are responsible for so many criminal acts, from destroying the Constitution to war crimes, that a new category for international criminals should be created just for them!  Bush and Cheney should have been impeached, removed from office and prosecuted long ago, and because they were not, the precedent now exists for a presidency that is literally above the law.  The president may now do what he likes without regard for international law, the Constitution, human rights, Congress, the Supreme Court, or the will of the people.  The president is now an absolute monarch, an emperor, who has been ceded his power by a craven gaggle of legislators like those of the ancient Roman Senate who handed their Republic to Julius Caesar.  He is now the Emperor of a collapsing, bankrupt empire, whose people are vulnerable to the destroying juggernaut of 60 trillion dollars in toxic derivatives that is literally crushing the life out of the economies of the world like a titanic wrecking ball.  When it has run its course, the world will be returned to a new Dark Age, its people wan, starving and prostrate, but still the subjects of an inexperienced emperor who believes his own messianic rhetoric, and who is guided by the same venal kleptomaniacs that have already destroyed the world's economy.  If there is now, as vice president-elect Joe Biden predicted, a world crisis designed to "test' president Obama, does anyone think he will relinquish the absolute power he has been bequeathed by his criminal predecessors?  On the contrary!  He will greatly expand it!  After all, he's the indispensable man, the Bringer of Hope, the Light to the Nations!  Power corrupts, said Lord Acton, and absolute power corrupts ABSOLUTELY!

Without fixing the economy first, I doubt Obama can move ahead with plans for universal health care, etc.

Last night on the news I noted that there are many people willing to buy cars but they cannot get the car loans!  Isn't that what the bailout money was for--making credit available to consumers to get the economy moving?  It is why Chrysler has to shut its doors for a month creating a spiral of unemployment benefits requests, people who will have to dip into savings or those on the brink of foreclosure may be tipped over the edge.

Bush and his cabinet have been a disaster for this country; Obama is going to have to be a miracle worker to haul us out of the mess Bush has created.  He and all his cabinet should be prosecuted, jailed and have the keys thrown away!

The first job of the President is to protect the Constitution and the rule of law, which have been ignored and abused. Those who violate their oath of office or betray the intended purposes of the agencies they lead should be tried and punished in courts of law.

The second priority is to pursue negotiations to reduce the nuclear weapons on alert and dismantle the stockpile, with a declaration of no first use and  repair of Bush's nuclear treaty damage.

The third priority is to reign in corporate excess and to develop a national law that requires corporations to include on their boards
representatives of their labor, communities and consumers. In this way strikes can be avoided as well as the promotion of dangerous or useless goods and end the indifference to community interests.
Stockholders would still be in the majority on these boards.