With all of the fanfare for President Obama's popular first 100 days, he is that much more certain to have a bad day, and soon. Here is Obama's worst day yet per Politico 44's daily itinerary of "POTUS" (Secret Service-style code for President!):
With all of the fanfare for President Obama's popular first 100 days, he is that much more certain to have a bad day, and soon. Here is Obama's worst day yet per Politico 44's daily itinerary of "POTU...
With all of the fanfare for President Obama's popular first 100 days, he is that much more certain to have a bad day, and soon. Here is Obama's worst day yet per Politico 44's daily itinerary of "POTU...
During President Obama's first 100 days, it seems that White House photographer Pete Souza has been at his side for virtually every waking moment. Below,...
The top House Republican said Tuesday that the liberal bills being pushed by President Obama and congressional Democrats make him "want to throw up" and...
Despite the anticipation that accompanies it, the marking of a president's first 100 days in office is a decidedly predictable affair. The White House, while...
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.
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.
When Michelle Obama put a vegetable garden on the White House lawn, I couldn't help but wonder if it would be the most powerful "soft" policy position on food this presidency could take in the first 100 days.
HuffPost bloggers give Obama their marks on foreign policy, national security, climate change, technology policy, GLBT issues, labor, political strategy, and much, much more.
Compared to the rows of sullen, silent Presidents behind him, Obama looks like a gay rights brown-noser. But when it comes to actual change in the lives of LGBT people, nothing has been done.
Rather than just grading the president, I suggest we might profitably assess our own 100 days. Obama has stormed the national and world stages in his first weeks. But how have we done -- particularly the progressives who have such a large stake in the success of this president -- in relation to Obama? He 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?
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.
In the media frenzy over Obama's first 100 days, his administration's new direction for workers' rights and safety concerns hasn't gotten the attention it...
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.
Barack Obama has drawn praise for transparency reforms during his first 100 days in office, but his use of the "state secrets" privilege to squash lawsuits on torture and surveillance is drawing mounting opposition.
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.
If his first 100 days are an indication of how Barack will perform against these nine measures of leadership, he is poised to be a transformational president.
The administration's political strategy isn't perfect, but it's about as close to perfect as any president in modern history. Obama hasn't suffered a single major setback on any legislative priority.
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.
Normally, the campaigning tools and functions that are used to win an election are put aside while the country is being run. But Obama and his team have turned that on its head.
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.
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.
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.
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."
