Posted on 04/30/2009 11:30:17 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans on Wednesday he was making progress tackling the economic crisis and in fixing the U.S. image abroad, but urged patience.
"We are off to a good start. But it is just a start," Obama told a White House news conference as he assessed his first 100 days in office and promised to keep up the whirlwind pace. "I am pleased with our progress, but I am not satisfied."
Buoyed by high public approval ratings, Obama focused on the jam-packed policy agenda he has pursued since his January 20 inauguration, topped by efforts to rescue the crippled economy and to repair U.S. relations with the rest of the world.
In just a few short months, Obama -- a Democrat elected on a promise of sweeping change -- has implemented sharp reversals from his Republican predecessor George W. Bush on issues ranging from the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to healthcare and climate change.
Supporters and critics alike filled the airwaves with conflicting assessments of Obama's record so far, but most analysts said it was too early to judge whether his long list of initiatives would yield success.
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A worker cleans the handrail of the Santa Fe international bridge linking Mexico with the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, to prevent contagion by the influenza A(H1N1) virus. Officials tried to quell growing panic over swine flu on Thursday as governments braced for a global pandemic and US Vice President Joe Biden recommended a boycott of planes and subways. (AFP/Jesus Alcazar)
He won’t be satisfied until our entire country has been reduced to nothing but a bloody, smoky pile of rubble.
0boooooombi, you f__kin lying POS!!! You’re a socialist-fascist-commie pig usurper, intent on destroying the once great USA. Unemployment is now close to 9% vs 4-5% during the Bush years, looming hyperinflation & staglation, runaway, out-of-control spending, massive deficits spiraling upwards, apologizing to dictators & thugs around the world..... some legacy you’ve established for only your first 100 days. We won’t have a country left at this rate by the time 2010 rolls around, let alone 2012. Let the secession begin.....
Well, now we now what progressism is: increased alienation and ability to ever fooling more and more people every day.
The plantation mentality of attacking/blocking anyone who has more stuff and of stealing titles for the heck of it because of narcissism rules the day.
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