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Apr242009

The First 100 Days: Comments

DateFriday, April 24, 2009 at 06:21PM

Everyone gets to comment. Actually, everyone HAS to comment, or I hand over all of my traffic records to Janet.

Scared, huh?

Jen Rubin over at Contentions has a list of hi-lites, lo-lites of the first 100 days. It's pretty good- the list that is. BO didn't go all stupid about Iraq, though he still has a chance to get rigid in the face of increasing violence (that may or may not be related to an enemy emboldened by some problem areas- see "lo-lites"). He did the right thing asking cajoling dazzling begging our "allies" to help out in Afghanistan (nothing to show for all that bowing, but it's the good intentions that count!) and he screwed African American kids and the Cole families...oops, belongs in the other column.

Here's my top ten Best Obama Moments of the first 100 Days:

10. The girl's first day of school.

9. The vegetable patch, especially the arugula row.

8. Michelle's left bicep ("Hope").click to enlarge

7. Every day of Robert Gibberish.

6. Michelle's argyle and sequin sweater (and Mrs. Brown's shapewear.)

5. The "20 American Classics" DVD's that he stuck Gordon Brown with. Best detail: price tag still on it with the little read mark down tag.

"Whoa, Nancy!"4. Every photo op with Tiny Tim, I mean, Treasury Secretary Jockey. Best quote: "Lend money or I'll have to spank you with my crop!"

3. The New York Times hit piece on Joe Biden.

2. Teleprompter Tennis Match.

1. Cabinet Naptime. Best spot: in the fireplace.  Don't you wish they'd all go to sleep?  For a really long time?

Worst Moments, Lo-Lites:

10. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh.

9. "The really hard questions come to me... sometimes it's really hard to decide who to hand off the really hard questions to, but I write "Greg" and "Eric" on little pieces of paper and put them in a velvet sack Rahm had made for me, you know, the one with the Presidential Seal on it, and I dig around and pull one out, and there it is! The really hard answer: Greg's working out the process, or Eric's in charge of the prosecutions. Very difficult stuff."

8. The Ongoing Endless Apology/I Was Too Young for That/ Bush's Fault Tour.

7. Michelle's right bicep ("Change").  See #8, above.

6. Screwing the minority kids in D.C. and the U.S.S. Cole Victim's families.

5. The Embryo Farming Directive, known euphemistically as "Stem Cell Research." Extra bad: that he offered no, as in zero, as in Chairman Zero, guidance about limitations because he wrestled and wrestled with the question of ethics and finally just couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about.

4. The Release of the Torture Memos.

3. The &^*%# Omnibus Spending Bill.

2. The &^%*$$ Stimulus.

1. Inauguration Night.Blank

 

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I would have placed #3 ahead of #2 in the low-lights; assuming #3 is the budget being 'debated' in Congress, it would institutionalise goverment profligacy of gargantuan proportions.
April 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commenteraelfheld
Since I fear Janet, I will comment!

Bowing down to a Saudi King and then telling the world via Gibbs that he didn't. Who are we to believe? Obama or our own eyes?
April 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRachel
@ aelfheld: I couldn't decide, plus I started with number 1 and probably didn't completely reverse the order.

@ Rachel: I can't believe that Gibberish didn't just FLAT OUT LIE and say, "Hey, he lost a contact. And that 'Kick me' postit- Just Gordo's revenge for the DVD snafu."
April 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterbbmoe

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