Oh America, you have almost forgotten now but once upon a time, long, long ago — 101 days to be exact — we were in pain, despairing and exhausted, fearful that our long national nightmare was never going to end; sure that, in some basement somewhere, an old man was chaining himself to a radiator determined that they could only pry the Executive Office out of his cold, dead hands.
But it did end. Oh, did it end.
Kiss him goodbye
So 100 days after that marvelous, magical moment we line up to judge the decision we’ve made. Well, by “we” I mean not us but a bunch of journalists — mainstream and otherwise — who like to feel that they are subject matter experts in how to run a country. And by “judge” I mean grade, just like your teacher did in junior high using a criteria that is opaque and arbitrary.
So I could give a grade too … but I think I won’t because I want to believe in the long game. That all those quizzes and multiple choice questions before the mid-term were essentially meaningless because what mattered was the accumulation of knowledge and the ability to apply what you had learned at the end of the term. And we have a long while to go yet before the end. And honestly, there’s lots of great and there’s some not good and it’s really too early to tell how it’s all going to go.
But if you really need to see the report card, pick your poison because everyone has weighed in. And generally, he looks like he’s pulling a B+.
- Salon gets a whole bunch of people — including conservatives.
- Everyone at the Daily Beast isn’t yet disappointed in Obama.
- Coates and Sullivan like Obama but they love Michelle.
- Huffington Post jumps the shark on the 100-day meme.
- Pictures better than words? Talking Points Memo has a bunch. The White House has even more.
So good job Barak. You show excellent potential and you play very nicely with the others. Silver star!
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