101 Things People Want Obama to Do in Term 2

From the merely ambitious to the sublimely ridiculous, here's an exhaustive list of all the things people want Obama to do in his second term.

BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH | JANUARY 21, 2013

51. "Work like a third world dictator and put [the opposition] in jail"

52. "Help save [the GOP] from [its own] crazy people"

53. Break the House Republicans

54. Play more golf with John Boehner

55. Throw dinners à la Thomas Jefferson

56. Be more like LBJ

57. Be more like Abraham Lincoln

58. Be more like Bill Clinton

59. Be less like Bill Clinton

60. Be more like Ronald Reagan

61. Continue being just like Reagan

62. Be more like RGIII

63. Be more like Vladimir Putin

64. Rebuild infrastructure

65. Cut entitlements -- that's what the American people want

66. Spare entitlements --  that's what the American people want

67. Eat Ethiopian food

68. Stop eating ice cream with a spoon

69. Freeze drilling in the Arctic

70. Tackle oil like Napoleon tackled salt

71. Approve the Keystone Pipeline this time

72. Discover his inner hedgehog

73. Embrace his inner fox

74. Bring climate change to the forefront

75. Confront climate change. Here are four ways to start. Here are some more ways -- and here are some more.

76. Get with the Latin Americans and legalize pot

77. Close Gitmo

78. Deliver on America's promise as the world's foremost democracy and remove ridiculous obstacles to voting

79. Bankrupt North Korea

80. Reinstate the draft -- everyone should have "skin in the game"

81. Withdraw from Okinawa

82. Visit Africa

83. Not visit Russia

84. Look to New Mexico

85. Not accept parenting advice from the prime minister of Turkey

86. Compromise in his marriage

87. Not listen to his progressive daughters when it comes to policy

88. Not put women in combat

89. Make immigration reform a top priority

90. Do these six things to make immigration reform a reality

91. Back France in the fight against al Qaeda in Africa

92. Lead from behind in Mali

93. Pay income taxes in the foreign countries he visits

94. Learn to skip the last question at a press conference

95. Appoint at least two Latinos to his cabinet

96. Appoint a female FCC chair

97. Protect Main Street from Wall Street

98. Please Wall Street

99. Do more for D.C. than change his license plate

100. Swear in on Das Kapital rather than the Bible

101. Avoid a second-term scandal

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Elizabeth Ralph is a researcher at Foreign Policy.