US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
Posted on 04/28/2009 7:27:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama marks his first 100 days as US president on Wednesday with swine flu freshly embossed on a long list of domestic and foreign crises to trouble his nascent administration, but with a measure of good news from Congress.
Up against the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a controversial program of economic reform, Obama must also work to prevent a global pandemic.
The White House initially expressed its reluctance to take part in the media frenzy surrounding the traditional 100-day performance milestone, dismissing it as a "Hallmark holiday," but has since decided to play along.
Marking the occasion, Obama travels Wednesday morning to St. Louis in the Midwest state of Missouri for a town hall meeting to take the pulse of the nation's breadbasket, where the economic crisis has hit hard.
He then returns to Washington for a press conference where he is expected to give his own assessment of his early performance.
Obama's own spokesman Robert Gibbs gave his boss a report card grade of "B plus," noting "there's always room for improvement."
"I think the president and the administration are pleased with what has been done in the first 100 days if you look at restarting credit flowing, increased financial stability, (and) the passage of a recovery and reinvestment plan," he said Monday.
Obama has tried to steady the country's nerves despite a wrenching economic crisis.
The president unleashed a huge government intervention in the economy, passed a historic 787-billion-dollar stimulus bill and now has high-stakes environmental and healthcare reforms on the launchpad.
Abroad, Obama dumped George W. Bush's swagger for a more humble tone, reaching out to Muslims and vowing to end decades of enmity with foes Cuba and Iran.
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US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to newly sworn in Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington April 28, 2009. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Kansas Governor Sebelius as health secretary, filling a crucial spot in Obama's cabinet amid growing fears of a possible swine flu pandemic. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES POLITICS HEALTH)
Is it me or does she look thrilled! Joe the Biden told us that he would be tested in the first 6 months and we would have to trust them (not sure of the exact words) is this what he meant, we would have swine.....yes that is right swine flu, the waste of $329,000 for so fly over, the continue decline in jobs, the wars hey I thought he was going to end that when he came into over, the releasing of memo’s and pictures that will really hurt this country and than the President of Iran using THE YES WE CAN
and the 6 months isn’t even up yet.
"Gird your loins!"
Hussein: the Socialist Community Organizer.
He is a joke.
If you turn the TV on, you can watch the networks fawn
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days
A hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days, a hundred days
They all cheer Obama's gone a hundred days
Lord, we're one, Lord, we're two, Lord, we're three, Lord, we're four
Lord, we're five trillion dollars in the hole
We're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole, we're in the hole
Lord, we're nine trillion dollars in the hole
Not a tax we will lack, got a target on my back
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change
Keep the change, keep the change, keep the change, keep the change
Lord, I can't afford Obama's kind of change
If you like these hundred days and you sing Obama's praise
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
You're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze, you're in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
Then I fear your feeble brain is in a daze
...And all the while he continues to build nuclear weapons and the ICBMs to launch them.
FUBO.
Obama IS a National Security Threat.
Obama reminds me of the character in the movie “It’s Pat”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRY_t6GEOB4
With Pat, it’s all about him.
Works 9-3 and plays golf and watches basketball on weekends. Hosts cocktail happy hours. Yep, a real challenge.
Interesting, the 100 days started with pork and ends with swine.
Will he be referred to as "pres_ent pig"?
Hey, another few months, he’ll be a scratch golfer, have a 240 bowling average and have Bo trained to not pee on ToTUS.
This nation sure has some bad karma.. or something.
$wine Spending flu is just the latest symptom... on display in Congre$$ and the WH every day
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