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By Doyle McManus |Tribune Newspapers April 21, 2009 WASHINGTON—If it seems arbitrary — even unfair — to take the measure of a new president after just 100 days in office, you can blame Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1933, with the nation in a financial meltdown, Roosevelt came to the White House and, with an enthusiastic Democratic Congress at his command, enacted a whirlwind of emergency legislation. There was a bank stabilization bill, unemployment relief and farm supports, stock market regulation, the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority — and the repeal of Prohibition. It took FDR only 103 days to launch that first version of his New Deal, and that initial blitz set a tone for the rest of Roosevelt's first term: constant action, bold experimentation, unprecedented expansion of the authority of the federal government.
Since then, journalists and political analysts have embraced the 100-day report card for presidents. But for most leaders since FDR, the first three months have been an unreliable guide to the years that followed.
Obama is off with a quick start to destroy our country and it's freedoms. In this case you are correct. He's put on US on a runaway freight train headed straight down hill with no brakes...
I agree that he is off and working well. It is important that they remember to keep their eyes on the goals and not get distracted by Republican talk radio, Faux News or stupid tea parties.
Obama is off with a quick start to destroy our country and it's freedoms. In this case you are correct. He's put on US on a runaway freight train headed straight down hill with no brakes...
Exactly....we will need a true conservative (I don't mean Bush) to come in and pick up the pieces.
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