It should be noted, first, that all of the challenges listed were either not solved by a Republican administration, or created by a Republican administration - all while having control of both houses in Congress.
Have you ever looked for one minute at the amount of money YOU and the rest of America is spending on Iraq, because of a Republican administration?
Those monies, that are wrapped up in exorbitant no bid - cost plus contracts, awarded uncontested to the likes of Republican run corporations such as Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater, etc., are wasteful in that these privatized industries were once performed and completed by the military...for a FRACTION of the costs charged today to tax payers by these war profiteers. Worse, they aren't held accountable for jobs and constructions not completed. Its called the FLEECING of America. Or criminal thievery...treason...or murder even, the way I see it.
Provided Obama has a Democratic controlled House and Senate, these Republican errors CAN and WILL be fixed. Already, the new policy of the Democrats is to not take bribe money from lobbyists. This should send shivers down the spines of the corporate elites and the Republicans because it says to the American people, no longer will Democrats be beholden to corporations that harm Americans. Shiver because that is how the Republican party is controlled...by lobbyists and big energy and big war profiteers.
Barack has never said he'll stop the war "immediately". He has stated he will begin bringing troops home immediately. The colossal errors created by the Bush Administration will require some time to correct in Iraq. But it is indeed time to shift responsibility to the people of Iraq, and bring the bulk of our service people home within a year.
Those monies wrapped up in Iraq will go a long way in supporting healthcare here. Because you're already providing it to Iraqis, so why not to your own people?
Obama will repair our economy, slowly, by incentives and tax breaks to companies who keep their work in the U.S., and incentives and tax breaks to companies and manufacturers who come to America to set up shop, and to Americans who want to CREATE more jobs. Shifting the tax burden from the middle class working people to the millionaires will also help the economy in that more middle class people, having more money from less taxes and better pay, will have more to contribute into the economy.
By keeping a leash on American energy corporations who practice dirty business in hostile regions such as the Middle East, as well as curbing arms deals with hostile countries - and instead, giving aid for food, medical supplies, education, etc., will go farther in creating peace and stabalizing these regions than cheating them out of their money and resources, and threatening to throw bombs at them.
If you really pay attention and listen to what he has said, ad nauseum, and turn off your state run media, you will begin to understand that Obama represents the people, and the people support him in taking back our government.
Please, get onboard.
Obama '08