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Okay, it's official: I'm now completely in Obama's camp.

I have to admit that I had strong negative opinions during the campaign, and when Hillary conceded, it took me a while to make the move to the "oh-I-guess-I'll-vote-for-him" camp...but he really grew on me.

It's been so refreshing to see someone at the helm who's an actual adult. Making adult and reasoned decisions. There are some things I disagree with (such as his reticence to allow people to investigate the previous administration and officials for war crimes--I think pressure is building so that he'll have to get out of the way, but his foot-dragging is disconcerting), but on a whole, I'm giddy nearly every day when reading the news.

In just 10 weeks, he's worked on:
Stimulus plan
Helpful budget
Saving millions of acres of land in the US
Investing in education--in a budget!!
Investing in infrastructure--in a budget!!
Making his administration's website transparent--he talks to us every.fucking.week and explains it all
He has bad ideas--people (like veterans) balk with good reason--he drops the idea!!!

And now? And now?
He wants to work for a world where we have no nuclear weapons. We have a president--the first, I think--who actually understands that having a nuclear arsenal AT.ALL is not in any way viable. It doesn't make anyone safer; it makes us all less safe. It's not even an effective deterrent.

What a relief.
We finally have a responsible grownup in the White House.

Thank you, Mr. President