How the White House Preps for 100-Day Mark

Sure, it's an arbitrary point in time. But everyone will be scoring Obama's performance next Wednesday

By Kenneth T. Walsh

April 22, 2009 RSS Feed Print

White House strategists are pooh-poohing the idea of evaluating President Obama at the 100-day mark, which comes next Wednesday. They say that time frame has become arbitrary and artificial since it was used in 1933 to evaluate Franklin Roosevelt's first three months in office.

But they also recognize that the news media will be giving extensive coverage to the "first 100 days," and the White House is planning to shape perceptions in an aggressive way. "We are not in denial about that," says an insider.

Obama will, for example, hold a town-hall meeting in suburban St. Louis on Wednesday to "discuss the first 100 days and take questions from Missourians about the administration's agenda looking forward," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told U.S. News this morning.

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I'm sure the Obama Whitehouse will continue the MSM relations push that we've seen through the Election and ever since the Inaguration. The CIA memo release is just a latest example of diversion tactics to draw attention of what a poor job of "change" we've seen thus far. The Obama/Democratic battle cry is "it's all bush's fault". This is not the behavior of a "leader". America has moved beyond race but some our politicians and the media think being "non-white" makes one immune from criticism. There is a growing base of Americans that are unhappy about Obama's decisions and behavior, many of which voted for him. This discontent has nothing to do with the man's race, it has to do with his "agenda".

The Democrats AND the Republicans must realize America will no longer tolerate Washington "business as usual".

Chris Petty of GA 9:48AM April 23, 2009

You forgot your sheet at my trailer again. See ya at the next "social". I'll bring some extra crosses if you bring the Coors Light.

David Duke of LA 5:39AM April 23, 2009

If the first 100 days are an indicator of the next 1360 days, then it is going to be a rough ride.

Wait until the reality of the funny money they are printing impacts the markets.

Larry of CA 6:49PM April 22, 2009

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