Arianna Huffington: Obama's First 100 Days: The Good, The Bad, and the Geithner:
In his appointments at almost every agency, Obama has demonstrated a desire to receive a wide range of opinion. But at Treasury, the range of opinion goes all the way from Goldman to Sachs.
Madeleine Albright: One Hundred Days:
The first one hundred days in a presidency are roughly comparable to the first one hundred yards in a mile race. Our president may not have won anything yet, but he is off to a reassuring start.
Gary Hart: Obama's First 100 Days and the Politics of Transformation:
Crises are too important to waste and the Obama administration is using the many crises it inherited not to go backward but to launch into the new century -- finally.
Robert Creamer: The First 100 Days - How Obama Scores on the Nine Qualities of Leadership:
In his first 100 days, Barack Obama has consistently scored very highly on each of the nine qualities that voters use to evaluate leaders.
Lincoln Mitchell: The First 100 Days: A Whole that is Greater than its Parts:
Not only have Obama's first 100 days been by far the best of any president of my lifetime, but they began not a day too soon. Ultimately, what stops Obama from getting an A is his approach to addressing finance and banking issues,
While I have some serious concerns, I think Obama deserves big credit both for being bold on many important issues and in establishing confidence in himself as a strong leader.
Robert Kuttner: Obama's First 100 Days: What's a Presidency For?:
Obama has repeatedly declared that he would govern as a consensus builder. He wasn't lying. However, there are two ways of achieving consensus.
Jeffrey Feldman: The American Dream and Obama's First 100 Days:
How each of us feels, lately, as we mull over our progress towards the American dream, is one of the best measures of Obama's job performance that I know, and it is one worth discussing at length instead of resting on the laurels of this or that poll of approval ratings.
Andy Ostroy: What Obama's Done for America's Confidence:
Obama's critics can bark as loudly as they wish and continue playing the partisan rhetoric game, but the simple truth is that his first 100 days have achieved major progress.
Dean Baker: The Obama Administration and the Bankers: 100 Days of Solicitude:
In the area of financial policy, the Obama administration gets poor marks for its first 100 days. Instead of a letter grade, we'll just say: "needs improvement."
Tim Berry: The First 100 Days from Small Business Viewpoint:
I asked some small business owners how they thought the Obama administration did for small business in its first 100 days. I got a lot of different answers.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Obama's Foreign Policy: A Grand Century of Days -- Light Years Away from Bush:
I resolutely accord President Obama and his foreign policy team a well earned grade of "A" in the conduct of America's national security challenges in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Lionel Beehner: Need Another 100 Days To Grade Obama's Foreign Policy:
Obama has had a remarkably productive first 100 days on the foreign policy front. It's hard not to like what I see. But let me try.
Mitchell Bard: Obama's First 100 Days: Restoring the Good Name of the U.S.:
The task awaiting Obama was massive. And yet, there is a rush to decide how he's doing after 100 days. Donnie Walsh gets two years to revive the Knicks, but the president only gets 100 days to fix the country?
Ilan Goldenberg: 100 Days, 100 Foreign Policy Achievements:
In 100 days, the Obama administration has taken more than 100 actions that are reshaping American foreign policy, reversing the failures of the Bush administration, and renewing America's standing in the world.
Stephen Schlesinger: In First 100 Days, Obama Plants Flag at United Nations:
President Obama has dramatically re-established American relations with the UN through numerous steps. Overall, he deserves an A- grade for his first 100 days as regards the UN.
Heather Hurlburt: 100 Days of the Obama Doctrine:
Obama has shown a refreshing willingness to discard foreign policy dogmas that no longer apply or have proven false.
Lorelei Kelly: Getting our Game Back: The First Hundred Days:
If we kill people, we lose the war. The most significant achievement of the Obama Administration thus far is a consistent and systematic understanding that security as we know it has fundamentally changed.
Brandon Friedman: Afghanistan and Pakistan: Obama's First 100 Days:
No one said this would be easy, and we can take heart that this administration -- as opposed to the last one -- has "shown up."
ZP Heller: The Failure of Obama's First 100 Days in Afghanistan:
We haven't seen a president willing to break with his predecessor by prioritizing regional diplomacy and humanitarian aid above military escalation. Here's why Obama gets a 'D' for his first 100 days in Afghanistan.
Joe Romm: The Green FDR: Obama's First 100 Days Make -- And May Remake -- History:
The media just keeps missing -- or messing up -- the story of the century. Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition.
Dave Burdick: Obama's First 100 Green Days:
Barack Obama: The first ______ president. Can we put the word "green" in that blank?
Jeff Biggers: Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please:
It is clear that the Obama administration does not have a road map for withdrawal from our disastrous dependence on coal, no grand plan for a regulated phase out of mountaintop removal or coal-fired plants.
Cristina Page: The Prevention President:
For those in favor of women's rights, the first 100 days of the Obama administration has been like a honeymoon. We've continually been reminded why we fell in love in the first place. Here's a report card.
Cecile Richards: The Top 10 Women's Health Achievements in Obama's First 100 Days:
We are off to an incredible start, though as everyone involved in improving the long-term health of our nation knows, it's not just about the first 100 days.
Nancy Keenan: Pro-Choice Progress: A Primer on President Obama's First 100 Days:
NARAL Pro-Choice America will mark this milestone with another reminder of how electing leaders who support the values of freedom and privacy does make a difference in the lives of women and their families.
Eleanor Smeal: Obama's First 100 Days: Giant Strides for Women:
I've been working for women's rights in Washington, D.C. since the Carter days and I have never seen anything like these first days. The pace is fast, and the outreach is inclusive. It started during the transition.
RJ Eskow: ObamaHealth: The Prognosis at 100 Days:
Is Obama behind schedule on defining his health policy? That's the wrong question. He's on a different schedule, one that favors process over policy.
Jon Soltz: 100 Days On Veterans: A Reason To Hope:
In all three areas of veteran care, while there's a ton to still do, there's been dramatic improvement in Obama's first 100 days.
Paul Berry: 5 Tech Highlights From the First 100 Days:
100 Days into his presidency, and Barack Obama is using online tools as if he was organizing a campaign.
Art Brodsky: 100 Days In Obama Tech Policy -- A Solid B With Strong Upside:
Bogged down and becalmed largely by circumstances beyond its control, it may be months before the Obama team regains its full-power tech policy mojo. It may be longer before they regain the tech chops that made the campaign such a juggernaut.
Tim Karr: Grading the Internet President:
As early as fall 2007, Obama made a strong commitment to a free-flowing, accessible and open Internet when he unveiled his new media agenda.
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Paul Helmke: Gun Violence Prevention And Obama's First 100 Days: Incomplete:
Over the last 100 days, the nation has suffered a string of mass shootings taking the lives of 57 people in less than a month. The president's direct response to this gun violence has been minimal.
Josh Sugarmann: The First 100 Days and Guns:
The recent incidents of gun violence are just discrete examples of the estimated 84 Americans who die on average each day in our nation from guns. Yet in the White House, the response remains muted.
Art Levine: What's Obama Done for Workers in His First 100 Days? Plenty:
With the glaring exception of the troubled, potentially disastrous bank bailout plan that could undercut any economic recovery, the Obama administration deserves at least an A- when it comes to taking action on behalf of workers.
Emma Ruby-Sachs: An LGBT Report Card for Obama's First 100 Days:
When it comes to actual change in the lives of LGBT people, nothing has been done. Obama has failed to hand in any of his assignments.
Nathaniel Frank: One Hundred Days of Silence:
The president's hundred days of silence could mean many more years of it for gay troops -- and thousands more unaffordable discharges for our military.
Harry Shearer: The First 100 Days in New Orleans:
What has Barack Obama meant to the city almost destroyed by federal malfeasance in 2005? The best, and the worst, one can say is that he's lived up to his campaign promises.
Dylan Loewe: 100 Days Report Card: Political Strategy:
The administration's political strategy isn't perfect, but it's about as close to perfect as any president in modern history. The administration hasn't suffered a single major setback on any legislative priority.
John McQuaid: 100 News Cycles Later:
Obama's ambitions depend on his ability to nudge the news cycle away from the cable network- and Drudge-driven obsession with transient panics and cultural outrages. He's been partially successful so far.
Elizabeth Goitein: Transparency in the First 100 Days: Grading the Obama Administration:
A report card issued this week by the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Project suggests that the administration's actions have not consistently lived up to this pledge.
James Warren: Looking Inward After 100 Days:
The media-driven "100 days" obsession assumes that we're passive actors in turning around the mess Obama has inherited. It assumes that we will wait and see what the administration will do for us.
Jason Linkins: Worst Media Moments of Obama's First 100 Days?:
Today, Media Matters is taking stock of the worst media moments of the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency.
Karl Frisch: Fox News: 100 Days of "Opposition" to Obama (Video):
Fox News has gone to tremendous lengths mainstreaming the sometimes violent, revolutionary doomsday rhetoric of the far right, which used to be confined to the extremist fringe.
Eric Boehlert: 100 Days Of The Media's Trivial Pursuit:
It's been distressing to watch the emergence of the media's permanent -- preferred -- state of trivial pursuit.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony: The First Lady's First 100 Days:
Only the most rigid of traditionalists or activists could assess Michelle Obama with anything less than an "A" grade as the new First Lady.
Bonnie Fuller: Michelle Obama's 100 Day Report Card! Did She Pass Or Flunk?:
It wasn't all straight As for the First Lady. Here's why she even deserved a D!
Enough already about his first 100 days. What about my first 100 days? After all, who was it who capitalized on his 36 years in the Senate to sell Obama's $787 billion stimulus package.
Steve Rosenbaum: Obama's Next 100 Days: The Top 4 Challenges Ahead:
The next 100 days are likely to be the ones where Obama will have to make history -- or have events overtake him. Here's why.
Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?:
Obama has demonstrated remarkable mastery of the powers of the presidency to lead the country. Have we mastered the power of the citizenry to empower the president?
Kenneth C. Davis: Don't Know Much About the First 100 Days: Then and Now:
As a yardstick of presidential accomplishment, the "First 100 Days" is surely a faulty measure. Lincoln's first one hundred days were miserable, and included the beginning of the Civil War.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: 100 Day Silliness:
Obama is well aware that the 100 days burden weighs heavier on him than any other president in modern times. He's young, liberal, untested, and black.
Dave Zirin: Obama's 100 Days: Bursting the Bubble:
We have a very real opportunity right now amid the crisis and hope swirling around us to rebuild both the left and radical struggle in this country.
Marc R. Stanley: Obama's First 100 Days: A Jewish Perspective:
We are happy to say that the first 15 weeks of Obama's presidency have made us proud and have fulfilled his promise of much needed change for our country.
Lloyd Chapman: Obama's First 100 Days Disappoints Women, Minorities and Small Businesses:
For millions of women, minorities and small business owners all across America it has become painfully clear, President Obama's promise to bring "an end to business as usual in Washington" may not include them.
Mario Almonte: Grading George W. Bush's First 100 Days Out of Office:
The fact is that, since leaving office, Bush has graciously faded into the background. He has repeatedly refused to criticize Obama publicly, even as Obama and members of his administration soak in the adulation at his expense.
The Progress Report: 100 Days Of Opposition:
Today, we're focusing on how the conservatives have chosen to spend their first 100 days.
Chris Weigant: First 100 Days Retrospective: Ford, Carter, Reagan:
What is striking is how often the media gets it wrong when measuring up new presidents. Journalists should approach judging a president's first 100 days with some humility.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Eerie Similarities Between President Obama and Bush's First 100 Days:
Obama's first days will be compared to FDR's first 100 days. And to a lesser extent JFK's first 100 days. But the better comparison is with his predecessor George W. Bush.
Spencer Green: "First 100 Days" Coverage May Result in Rectal Bleeding:
"It's pure journalistic olestra. The consistent barrage of 'first 100 days'-related news goes through people so quickly that their heads and now their bodies are unable to properly absorb or digest it all."
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two thumbs up, a snap and a TWIRL! :)
We get 5 stories that last for weeks from every news media outlet. Its incredible.
Here's what I just watched for what feels like a year: torture memos, Craigslist killer, swine flu, Obama's 100 days...in that order and...that's it. Period.
Republicans are also wondering what has become of their party. They don't get it?
They really don't get the fact that they say they stand for less government and when they are in, its more Big Brother and government and military spending at new record levels?
Or eight years of fear based leadership and unregulated free market economy. Get a grip... and ditch the fundamentalists.
The promise: we will GET Osdama Bin Laden no matter where he's hiding? Oh yea, I have a vague recollection of going to IRAQ to find him.
Stop saying we are safer. We used to not need to be safe.
Democrats: Someone have dirty pics of you all somewhere?
Americans:
What is socialism? You really don't know do you?
My Swedish friends bitch about high taxes but have two homes, month vacations, couple Volvos and all benefits.
I just heard some idiot say that if GM builds economical cars and gas prices being cyclical, come down, they won't have gas guzzlers to sell. What? Madison Ave has zero to do with American buying trends?
Why not build a high speed railway and let GM do the work?
Go to work DC. Its serious. Argentina circa 2002?
Bav
http://c-dawson.blogspot.com/2009/04/early-review.html
try sleeping it off. you can wake up in time for the second 100 days celebrations.
$11,000,000,000,000 in dept.
GO barry.
what will the next 100 days cost our great-great grandchildren.
S + P = D.
D = Disappointing.
I am not happy with him forcing the resignation of the GM CEO and doing nothing to Wall Street incompetents.
I am not happy with him appointing another Wall Street Insider as Treasury Secretary
I am not happy with the Torture Situation
I AM happy with his Labor Appointments,
His immediate overturning Shrubs Executive Orders regarding Family Planning and Labor Issues.
His Diplomatic Policies get several attaboys!
Economics, I really really do not approve of the way bankers are allowed to continue business as usual!
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So -
for that alone and what ever follows this year, he deserves an A+. Keep people in their homes.
A President who cares about YOU.
It's about time there's ownership for ALL. You need to work though. Nothing in life is free. There's always a price, and nothing is handed out unless you give a hand in return in some way. Exchange is our way out. You know this. If you don't, try it, and see how appreciated you become. It's nice to feel appreciated. A+