Organizing for America is sending around a survey (http://bit.ly/5yHBTP) soliciting our opinions.

You have to fill in the short answer questions and the parts that ask you about volunteering. Then there is this:

"Please share your reflections, concerns or highlights from the work we did together in 2009, or any other ideas you have for the future of OFA in 2010 (Optional):"

My response:

The Obama Administration must start enforcing the law and respecting the Constitution by bringing charges against torturers and war criminals in the Bush Administration (as required by our domestic laws and our treaties), as well as by ending indefinite detention, by stopping its efforts to cripple habeas corpus and create a multi-tiered, unconstitutional justice system, while maintaining the false version of the state secrets law.

The Obama Administration must remove control of the Treasury from Timothy Geithner and others like him who were directly responsible for the destruction of our economy. It is urgent that a real jobs program is created to put people back to work, not merely slow the tate of job loss, as you initial. and completely inadequate, "stimulus" package did. $300 billion of pointless tax cuts was worse than useless. It was counter-productive.

The Obama Administration must end the funnelling of people's money into the health insurance/pharmaceutical/medical equipment complex, a parasite on the American commonwealth, and create a non-profit health assurance system.

The Obama Administration must end the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen. It must stop saber-rattling against Iran and other countries, especially while not holding Israel to the same standards it wants for other, mostly Muslim countries. As long as the US attacks countries throughout the Middle East, killing hundreds or thousands of civilians, it merely reinforces the reasons that people join up with al Qaeda.

The Defense Science Board Task Force issued a report in September, 2004, noting the "underlying sources of threats to America's national security." It concluded they were the "negative attitudes" towards the U.S. in the Muslim world and "the conditions that create them": ... "American direct intervention in the Muslim world"; "one sided support in favor of Israel"; support for Islamic tyrannies in, for instance, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; and "the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan," to which we may add the killing of civilians in Pakistan and Yemen.

Yet, the Current administration continues to do all these things, ignoring, as the Bush Administration did before, the conclusions of the Task Force. And the results are clear: the attempted bombing over Detroit, the bombing of CIA agents, etc.

All the rest of this survey is merely cover for what are Obama's clear policies as I have outlined them above.

If you have any hope of maintaining your hold on Congress and gaining a second term for the president, you must remember that the voters wanted an end to what the Republicans had done for the previous eight years, both when they turned the Congress over to Democrats in 2006 and when they elected a president whom they thought would bring openness, transparency and humanity to their government.

It hasn't happened yet and time is running out.