Obama Embraces 100 Days Hoopla

New York Times:

When it comes to the whole 100 Days hoopla, President Obama and his team were against it before they were for it.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[sandals]

10:31 AM on 04/26/2009

Obama didn't lie about Afghanistan, during his campaign he stated he would send more troops there,
Iraq he said he would start with drawing troops within 16months, it hasn't even been 100 days.
Nice try apparently you are disgruntle that McBush didn't win.

[AngieMom57]

11:11 AM on 04/26/2009

He went there during his campaign, any posters here know a service man or woman who saw him there during the campaign last year?

I have a you-tube link...just remember you can't believe everything you see on you-tube even if it is the democratic presidential candidate shooting some baskets and talking to our troops in a war zone..

I'll be back with the link after I rinse the small grain brown rice and put it in the pressure cooker..

[AngieMom57]

11:16 AM on 04/26/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8IB2ZzzBiU

[Independent voter]

09:35 AM on 04/26/2009

Perhaps a little less talk and a lot more action would have given the people cause to celebrate. Before the people in the tinfoil Obama hats start with the invectives, consider the following from a videotaped interview, October 27, 2007

THE TALK:
I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.

THE ACTION:
Our troops did not come home. In fact, Obama has sent 21,000 more to Afghanistan.

Was it a lie or was it empty rhetoric?

Here's another example:

THE TALK:
“[W]hen there is a bill that ends up on my desk as a president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing.”

THE ACTION
Obama has signed eleven bills. Of these, only six have been posted on Whitehouse.gov. None have been posted for a full five days after presentment from Congress.

[Patricia84]

04:48 AM on 04/26/2009

It's an unparalleled communication momentum. The media everywhere will be focused on him. It's only fitting that he uses it to his own advantage.

[lily31]

10:00 AM on 04/26/2009

Exactly!

This is precisely what he should do ~ to leave all the discussion in the hands of others, he going directly to the people to have his own message placed front and center!

BRAVO, Mr President. I may not agree with everything you've done but I think you are head and shoulders above GWB and his media control team directed by Rove.

[tomasedison]

03:15 AM on 04/26/2009

and somewhere George will be out clearing brush just like Saint Ronnie did

[Sensiblebg]

03:00 AM on 04/26/2009

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

[hamchunk]

12:19 AM on 04/26/2009

Aahhhh..... while Rome burns.....

[PhilipTaylor]

11:29 PM on 04/25/2009

.

100 Days of Welfare to Wall Street and Corporate America! TIME FOR CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!"

We want our FREEDOM from "Wall Street DECIDERS!"

Obama is asking all federal workers for ideas on improving America!

This is EXACTLY the right thing to do!

Now lets ask some CAR DEALERS trying to get Loans from Wall Street what to do!

Lets ask some Students trying to get Loans from Wall Street what to do!

Lets ask Main Street Americans how to get lower credit card FEES and RATES from Wall Street what to do!

Now lets ask Main Street Americans who want to ReFi their Homes without giving Wall Street five or more years of POINTS (in Savings) to save 3/4ths %!

Lets ask Main Street Americans if they want to depend on Wall Street Bankers at ALL!

President Obama PLEASE Open a High Tech Government Internet Bank to serve Tens of Millions on Main Street!

Turn Off the Faucet to Wall Street and turn On the Faucet to Main Street!

We want our FREEDOM from "Wall Street DECIDERS!"
.

[StevenevetS]

01:24 AM on 04/26/2009

Is there a place on the web where we can read how the "High Tech Government Internet Bank" would work?

I'd be interested in learning more.

[Naktyvyras]

10:20 PM on 04/25/2009

6) So Wagner was doing a great job, wasn't he?

7) So...don't go to the G20 Summit in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Great Idea.

8) ALL PRESIDENTS do that. George Bush did that. Ronald Reagan did that. Stupidest criticism I've heard yet.

You people truly have nothing. You are grasping at thin air.

[Naktyvyras]

10:20 PM on 04/25/2009

3) Recovery.gov

4) He promised to refocus the war effort to Afghanistan during the campaign.

5) Name one dictator he has kissed (Chavez was democratically elected). If I remember correctly, George Bush literally KISSED the autocratic KING of Saudi Arabia who holds near-absolute power (absolute monarch = dictator). Why aren't you bashing George Bush for kissing a dictator? Further Obama has NEVER dissed our country. He has admitted that Americans have made mistakes in the past (the one quote you're referring to was made so that he could criticize Europeans for anti-Americanism). This "we can do no wrong" attitude is exactly what's making everyone else in the world hate us. Is it BAD to establish better relations with other countries? History has shown us that regime change comes only when oppressive regimes are engaged, not ignored (Nixon in China). Bush's policy of ignoring regimes that he disagreed with has ended in catastrophe. One example: former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami, the Iranian reformist who fought for a more inclusive democracy in Iran and less power from religious institutions, tried to start negotiations with the US. Bush ignored Khatami. The Iranian people grow disillusioned with Khatami's attempts to talk with Bush. They vote him out of office and replace him with Ahmadinejad (you know the rest). Oh, don't forget North Korea. Years of no isolation were a smashing success.

continued...

[Sensiblebg]

03:01 AM on 04/26/2009

Chavez was about as 'democratically' elected as Kim Jun Il..

[aramos]

10:19 PM on 04/25/2009

What I'm really looking forward to is Obama's 1460th day in office, his last!

[digitalprophet]

10:40 PM on 04/25/2009

double that and then you will still have a Democrat in office after :)

[gretcheno]

01:18 AM on 04/26/2009

IA something more to piss off the LUCIFER bunch. lol

[StevenevetS]

01:29 AM on 04/26/2009

I remember thinking the exact same thing about Bush.

If you feel about Obama the way I felt about Bush, you are in for a very long frustrating ordeal. And nothing personal, but I'd be thrilled if Obama were president for life.

[rbarry647]

10:14 PM on 04/25/2009

i am glad Obama is embracing it, sure to ruffle the Tro//s feathers

[AngieMom57]

09:28 PM on 04/25/2009

I'm sure I already posted this writing contest that ONE.org is having, I think the winner gets his letter read by POTUS ;-)

THE BIG READ:

http://www.one.org/us/bigread/?id=930-3985474-uOxp1xx&t=1

[260Parkway]

08:45 PM on 04/25/2009

What was the grade George W. Bush receive after 100 days in office? If I recall correctly he spent 85 of those days down in Crawford, Texas on his ranch clearing brush. I'm so sick of all of this is disgusting!!!!

[eliasboudit]

09:16 PM on 04/25/2009

actually, wrong again!

bush didnt do a "diss america" tour to begin with and he did not spend weeks on end like he was still campainging.

[teron678]

09:31 PM on 04/25/2009

& he sure left the Oval Office with the US in very good shape right ....... LMAO

[ckfan]

09:32 PM on 04/25/2009

LOL. Jealous, aren't you? Yep, it shows. Ha!

[ThermoChemist]

02:17 AM on 04/26/2009

"In a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll taken April 20-22, Americans gave Bush a 62 percent approval rating. That figure compares with 55 percent for Clinton in 1993 and 58 percent for Bush's father..."
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/bush.100/stories/overview.html

[BHO; 65% approval rating in the most recent daily Gallup poll.]
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/24/1906350.aspx

-- On Inauguration Day, Dubya's car was hit by thrown eggs.
-- They spent the first few days obsessing over the Clinton pardon.
-- Ordered his staff to dress in business attire in the White House.
-- Incident with a US recon plane striking (or being struck) by a Chinese fighter jet.

-- He began his assault on the environment

JAN. 2001
- Suspends implementation of most of Clinton's late-term executive orders regarding the environment (forests; arsenic, etc.)

- U.S. EPA lifts air-pollution standards for California power plants.

February 2001
- Seeks to "adjust the boundaries" of Clinton-designated national monuments.
- Budget; plans to cut funding for environmental policy enforcement by 7 percent.
- QWEST turned down an NSA request which it deemed illegal [warrantless wiretapping MONTHS "before" 9/11!]

March 2001
- Reverses campaign pledge; will not order mandatory reductions of CO2 emissions from the nation's electrical plants.
- EPA delays new rules regulating hard-rock mining; cancels the implementation of the arsenic rule

April 2001
- Abandons plans to invest $100 million per year in rainforest conservation.
- Cheney heads up Bush's “secret” energy task force

[eliasboudit]

08:35 PM on 04/25/2009

GREAT READ by the NY Times of 100 days 100 mistakes - read it if you dare or if you want some truth:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/100_days__100_mistakes_166177.htm

[teron678]

08:51 PM on 04/25/2009

Obama 1st mistake for you .. was defeating Hillary ... 2nd mistake was defeating McCain .... LMAO

You have 8 years to whine ........ you're doing well so far ....

p.s .... this article is from the NY-Post (not the NY Times) ..... opinion piece ... with right-wing drivel ...

[eliasboudit]

09:11 PM on 04/25/2009

actually this article is exactly why he is only a one termer!

And ummm the NY Post and Times came out SWINING for the president.

A very small but growing number of ppl are now regretting their decision - just wait

[jsinclair]

09:13 PM on 04/25/2009

Why does it not surprise me that these "critics" don't notice the difference between the NY TIMES and the NY POST???

[NakedMoleRat]

02:35 AM on 04/26/2009

You were probably really upset at number 93, the one where the President's public briefings (three more than Bush in the first 100 days), pre-empting American Idol.

I'm sure that was the biggest mistake the Prez made in your small inefficient brain.

"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" - Wanda to Otto in "A Fish Called Wanda"

[eliasboudit]

08:21 PM on 04/25/2009

Who is jack1234 and why is he being obnoxious?

[gretcheno]

01:22 AM on 04/26/2009

He probably is a Bush lover and is MAD and JEALOUS that BO is loved all over the world and every one cannot stand Lucifer Bush.