Obama: The First 100 Days. . .

28th April 2009 Charles J. Brown
09:53 am

Obama: The First 100 Days. . .

. . .is a completely useless measurement.

Think I’m wrong? Then why don’t we see. . .

Congress: The First 100 Days

The Supreme Court: The First 100 Days

The New Yankee Stadium: The First 100 Days

Susan Boyle: The First 100 Days

Just to offer some perspective, if you Google “Obama 100 days,” you get 32,600,000 hits. If you Google “swine flu,” you get 3,260,000 hits. It’s a made-up story, generated by lazy, bored journalists.

Right now, we have an economy that may still be in free fall, a potential flu epidemic, almost daily revelations on torture, the Taliban between 70 and 100 miles from Islamabad, and so many other problems that they wouldn’t fit inside a supertanker. But instead of focusing on real news, the White House press corps will pester Robert Gibbs with stupid questions about a meaningless metric.

So yes, media, please spend your time on retrospectives of a blip in time.

It’s not like we have other things to worry about.

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1 On May 11th, 2009, TB said:
Oh, give me a break. “100 Days” is an old, old measurement, one that is even copied in other countries and often used by Presidential Candidates themselves, as to “In my first 100 days, I’ll…” I bet Obama did, though I don’t care enough to check.

You’re just mad because he has so little to show for his 100 days. Maybe there are good reasons for this, maybe there aren’t. But seeing how unblushingly partisan your little blog is, I suspect this is the real reason you’re wasting time attacking the “100 days” idea.