Here is an updated version of my 100 days plan for Obama. I am trying to drill it down to a feasible amount of items that can be accomplished:

1. Close Guantanamo bay.  Try Prisoners either in the USA under a new court system or better yet try them in some U.N. sponsored international court
2. Call on joint chiefs to start the withdraw of troops from Iraq.  Should be 1-2 brigades per month and can finish up in 16 months or less.
3. Move more troops into afghanistan and finish the job.  Meet with leaders of Pakistan, Syria, etc to draw a line that says if you are not allowing us to catch Bin Laden we will need to sanction you etc.  
4. Address the U.N. and ask for support on the international war against terror.  Ask for diplomatic talks with Oil producing neighbors and an international force in Afghanistan.
5. Review all Bush Executive orders and cancel those unconstitutional
6. Send secretary of state around the world for a healing of the American spirit with the world
7. Cancel any trade agreements that are not in our workers best interests and the best interest for labor standards.  
8. Submit bill to fund manhattan project environmental and green economy revolution
9. Submit budget that lets Bush tax cuts expire on rich, further cut taxes for the middle class, increases funding for science, education, states, environment etc.  Cut funding for the Department of Defense, close tax loopholes corporations and the rich.
10. Submit Manhattan project health care reform bill
11. Pass economic stimulus plan that helps the unemployed, manages the bailout better, provides rebate checks, invests in the infrastructure, and helps stem foreclosures.
12. Allow full funding for stem cell research
13. Reverse the Bush EPA decision and allow California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Call for a new climate treaty and ask Al Gore to lead that effort.

Here is a summary of events that President-Elect Obama has done since the election on Nov 4th.

• Announced his transition team headed up by Podesta, Jarrett and others.
• President-elect Obama chose Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, a former Clinton administration staffer, as his White House Chief of Staff. Emanuel spoke with Obama on November 6, two days after the election, and accepted the position.
• ^{Pete Rouse, who has been serving as Obama’s chief of staff on his Senate staff, has been named Deputy Chief of Staff.}
• ^{Former Obama chief strategist  David Axelrod accepted the position of Senior Advisor in the White House.} 
• ^{Robert Gibbs is expected to be named Press Secretary.}
• Held his first press conference and took questions from the media
• Held meeting with his economic team and presented everyone to the press
• Began daily classified briefings with the FBI and CIA
• Launched transition website change.gov

Robert Gibbs has been tapped to serve as President Obama’s Press secretary.  Gibbs, did an amazing job defending the onslaught of misinformation during the 2008 Presidential campaign.  He also served as the communications directory for Obama’s Senate campaign.

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For the full story on this announcement visit Politico.com

In President-Elect Obama’s first major move after the election, he has selected Rep. Rahm Emanuel White house chief of staff.  You can read the full story on politico.com.  You can click here to read his wiki entry.

 Emanuel was named the Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2005 and credited with the great democratic success of the mid-term elections.  He is Democratic Caucus Chairman and serves as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing Illinois’s 5th congressional district which covers much of the north side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County.  

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Emanuel’s history on Congresspedia here

Complete bill sponsorship and voting history here

Official announcement from the Project:

With Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s election, this planning process will be now be formally organized as the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501(c)(4) organization to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to the next. The work of this entity will be overseen by three co-chairs: John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse.

The co-chairs will be assisted by an advisory board comprised of individuals with significant private and public sector experience: Carol Browner, William Daley, Christopher Edley, Michael Froman, Julius Genachowski, Donald Gips, Governor Janet Napolitano, Federico Peña, Susan Rice, Sonal Shah, Mark Gitenstein, and Ted Kaufman. Gitenstein and Kaufman will serve as co-chairs of Vice President-elect Biden’s transition team.

Supervising the day-to-day activities of the transition will be:

Transition Senior Staff:
Chris Lu – Executive Director
Dan Pfeiffer – Communications Director
Stephanie Cutter – Chief Spokesperson
Cassandra Butts – General Counsel
Jim Messina – Personnel Director
Patrick Gaspard – Associate Personnel Director
Christine Varney - Personnel Counsel
Melody Barnes – Co-Director of Agency Review
Lisa Brown – Co-Director of Agency Review
Phil Schiliro – Director of Congressional Relations
Michael Strautmanis – Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs
Katy Kale – Director of Operations
Brad Kiley – Director of Operations

The official website for the transition is www.change.gov and it will be live later today.

Time to get to work.  John Podesta has been tapped as Obama’s transition team-lead.  This has been in the works already for about 10 weeks.  Podesta was the White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton in his second term.  You can read more about Podesta on wiki.

The next major decision by Obama will be to appoint a White House Chief of staff.  The front-runner is Rahm_Emanuel, his long time friend and ally from Chicago.  He is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.  For more information on all of the tasks required of Obama’s team from now until election day read this great article

History is made for the country, the world, and especially for African-Americans.   Let the work of transition begin and techNmore.com will be the source every step of the way.  For now, let’s celebrate together.