I know I'm not going to get everything. I don't expect to. But if, in his first one hundred days, Obama does overturn the Bush exec orders which were purely partisan, like the global gag order, and the stem cell research and environmental ones, and if he does this, as is being reported below...then that right there shows me there is a difference between the two parties, and it does matter. There is a split on the left about that.
Obama plans Guantanamo closure, US terror trials
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GUANTANAMO?SITE=NCBER&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Obama plans Guantanamo closure, US terror trials
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GUANTANAMO?SITE=NCBER&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT