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Grading Obama's First 100 Days
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyDonna Britt, PoliticsDaily.com columnist, gives Obama a B: The happiest surprise was the speed with which Obama has reached out to the global community--reassuring world leaders in Europe, pledging to engage with Venezuela, and easing travel and monetary transactions with Cuba. After eight years of disastrous US foreign policy, Obama seems intent on heal the rifts and suffering caused by the previous administration. And the unhappiest surprise? Obama's appointments of former NY Fed chief Timothy Geithner and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers seem less like "change," and more like ...
'100 Days, 100 Errors'
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyToday's the day we (well mainly just the mainstream media and political junkies like me) have been waiting for: The end of Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, marked by a sort of attention deficit approach to fulfilling an overwhelming amount of campaign promises, some ending up good and some bad. ...
Obama at Presser: Calm, Cool, Collected
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAfter watching the president's 100-day news conference, my biggest impression is that he has finally settled into his office. He gave a very assured, calm and competent performance (that latter point will surely be disputed by conservatives), that made for, yes, rather boring television. Maybe FOX was right to skip this thing, after all. On the other hand, many people will feel reassured by what they saw tonight. Here is a president who is making the best of the hand he has been dealt. He's working hard, and he's starting to really feel comfortable at the podium. In other words, tomorrow's ...
Michelle Packs Food, Pitches Bipartisanship
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWASHINGTON-And on Day 100 of the Obama administration, FLOTUS and SLOTUS put in a stint at a food bank here. Welcome back to PoliticsDaily.com Daily FLOTUS. To remind newbies-Michelle Obama is FLOTUS, First Lady of the United States and Jill Biden is SLOTUS, Second Lady of the United States. With about 150 congressional spouses-including Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi-Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden spent part of Wednesday afternoon-from 2:09 p.m. eastern until about 2:41 p.m.-- packing groceries at the Capital Area Food Bank. On Thursday, Mrs. Obama will lunch with some of the ...
Obama's First 100 Days Not All Business
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyAs the MSNBC video below and this photoset from White House photographer Pete Souza show, not every minute in the life of the Obamas is staid and official. Despite a tumbling economy, two wars, pirates and a flu pandemic, President Obama healthily takes some time to just be Barack. Oh, and it's good to have a young, vibrant family in the White House again. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy ...
President Obama Talks Tea Bags at 100th Day Town Hall
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyPolitico reports that President Obama addressed the Tax Day Tea Party Movement directly during his 100th Day Townhall in Missouri today. The President's remarks were considerably more measured than the mockery leveled at the protesters by the news media:"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, Obama said, "let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security." "But," ...
Obama's First Hundred Days
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyHe is as velvety smooth as a cold glass of Guinness, this new president of ours--and even boasts a drop or two of Irish blood on his mother's side--not to mention the good looks of a Kennedy, the even keel of a Roosevelt, the understated swagger of an Eisenhower. He has riding shotgun with him a First Lady who is simultaneously hip and squared away, and two little girls so pretty and poised they might have come from Central Casting. ...
Just Imagine: The First 100 Days of John McCain
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIf things had gone differently..... John McCain, the oldest first-term president in history, is proving as rambunctious and pugnacious as the youngest one, Teddy Roosevelt. Of course, Teddy probably would have sent the Marines to Venezuela, while McCain had to make do with mugging for the cameras with an exaggerated grimace when he was forced by protocol to shake Hugo Chavez's hand at the recent hemispheric summit. ...
GOP's First 100 Days: One Setback After Another
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRepublicans, bless their hearts, have provided more than their share of spectacle in the first hundred days of the Obama administration. ...
Gibbs Gives Obama a B+ on 1st 100 Days, Says Republicans Can 'Defend Their Actions'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyDuring yesterday's briefing, I was surprised at how few questions were asked about the President's 100th day in office, which he will mark Wednesday with a prime-time news conference. It seems the swine flu ate most of the briefing.Helen Thomas did ask Gibbs to grade the administration's performance in the first 100 days, and here's what Gibbs had to say:In retrospect, Helen should have given him a choice between A+ and F. Of course, he's going to say B+, and I'm surprised he didn't say they lost points for "caring too much."I asked Gibbs to rate the Republicans' first 100 days under Barack ...
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