Grading Obama's first 100 days: Steve Biegun

Posted By Steve Biegun Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:51 AM Share

The first 100 days? Still too early to say one way or another. A good start on foreign policy but no real challenges yet either. Kind of seems like the easy part has been upfront -- regards, apologies, photo ops, etc. A bit too much blaming the predecessor, and some steps on issues like terrorist interrogations that haven't roiled the waters too much (yet) but will come back to haunt if political division deepens. Still, many solid personnel appointments, no apparent turmoil inside the administration, no noteworthy mistakes on the international stage, and Congress is following the president's lead. Four years of this would be great. Let's see where things are at six months.

--Steve Biegun

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