Let me guess, 'cause Obama has the Congress stacked the way he wants it he will only need 10 days??

Because a term is 4 years, not 100 days? Seems logical.

Though Obama is on the way to beating even Roosevelt in his first 100 days, so it's not like CNN is defending him or anything.

FTA: "The new president has been in office one week and already the clock is ticking as to whether or not he can get a lot accomplished in the first 100 days of his presidency."

Well, using our last president as a standard, we can have a block of cheese just sitting on the oval office chair, and it will be more productive than Bush.

They're a dumbass for saying drop it? Why? The "first 100 days" thing is an arbitrary media creation based on one hundred being a nice round number. It's always been a stupid measurement. Let's watch what he does and what he sets in motion continuously, not place extra importance on an arbitrary number of days.

patrick767: They're a dumbass for saying drop it? Why? The "first 100 days" thing is an arbitrary media creation based on one hundred being a nice round number. It's always been a stupid measurement. Let's watch what he does and what he sets in motion continuously, not place extra importance on an arbitrary number of days.

It's been around forever if I recall correctly, and is just a neat way to sum up a president's first steps as leader of the free world.

What's so sinister about it?

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: patrick767: They're a dumbass for saying drop it? Why? The "first 100 days" thing is an arbitrary media creation based on one hundred being a nice round number. It's always been a stupid measurement. Let's watch what he does and what he sets in motion continuously, not place extra importance on an arbitrary number of days.

It's been around forever if I recall correctly, and is just a neat way to sum up a president's first steps as leader of the free world.

What's so sinister about it?

Apparently there was nothing sinister about it until now.

No YOU'RE a Towel: Though Obama is on the way to beating even Roosevelt in his first 100 days, so it's not like CNN is defending him or anything.

He is digging Roosevelt up and punching the corpse?!?

That's just mean!!

Its not a sprint, its a marathon...to the debt.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: It's been around forever if I recall correctly, and is just a neat way to sum up a president's first steps as leader of the free world.

What's so sinister about it?

The "First 100 days" was coined by a historian to describe FDRs first three months in office and the creation of the New Deal. The media latched on to it, holding each President to the same standard... even though we have no need for a new New Deal every 4-8 years.

The really funny thing is that FDR's "First 100 Days" was more like 18 months, because the New Deal took some time to get fully implemented, steered through the courts, and jammed through Congress.

it's only been 10 days and he's started the process of ending the war in iraq, closing guantanamo, ending torture, passed a fair pay bill, and has his stimulus bill halfway through congress. man, it's gotta be a rocky 90 more days to say he hasn't accomplished much.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: Let me guess, 'cause Obama has the Congress stacked the way he wants it he will only need 10 days??

Well he has kept 6 of his promises in 10 days with 17 other promises in the works. Which would not surprise me if that surpasses what promises Bush kept in his first 100 days.

Subby: CNN Columnist suggests we drop the whole "First 100 days in office" thing for Obama

There we go. That's a little more accurate.

Also: TFA: The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Roland S. Martin.

Just thought I'd point that out for illiteratemitter.

The Stealth Hippopotamus: No YOU'RE a Towel: Though Obama is on the way to beating even Roosevelt in his first 100 days, so it's not like CNN is defending him or anything.

He is digging Roosevelt up and punching the corpse?!?

That's just mean!!

His corpse has been a real a-hole lately.

It's arbitrary and harmless. What's the big deal? Sounds more like CNN creating more self-referential "news."

mrshowrules: Well he has kept 6 of his promises in 10 days with 17 other promises in the works. Which would not surprise me if that surpasses what promises Bush kept in his first 100 days.

Yeah. We should be at world peace by Valentines day! Just in time for candy hearts and valentine cards at the UN.

mrshowrules: Well he has kept 6 of his promises in 10 days with 17 other promises in the works. Which would not surprise me if that surpasses what promises Bush kept in his first 100 1000 days.

FTFY

This is the same CNN that's running a "Obama Day N" counter at the bottom of the screen?

Darconix: When the libs make Obama's first one hundred days a campaign platform, then hell yes they're going to be held to them. Just like using "gotcha" journalism to torpedo Palin, now they have to put up with it when their dirty tricks are used against them.

Funny Troll is funny.

patrick767: They're a dumbass for saying drop it? Why? The "first 100 days" thing is an arbitrary media creation based on one hundred being a nice round number. It's always been a stupid measurement. Let's watch what he does and what he sets in motion continuously, not place extra importance on an arbitrary number of days.

The stupid mu-mu wearing fat housewife and her pot-bellied beer-stained-wife-beater-wearing mutant husband who make up what seem to be the majority of the nation can't absorb all that. They need the 100 days to be a simple, round number or their brain cells start shutting down. This is why Fox News will always be around: dumbed-down concepts for dumbed-down people.

Darconix: When the libs make Obama's first one hundred days a campaign platform, then hell yes they're going to be held to them. Just like using "gotcha" journalism to torpedo Palin, now they have to put up with it when their dirty tricks are used against them.

I am sure you would like to torpedo Palin.

burndtdan: it's only been 10 days and he's started the process of ending the war in iraq, closing guantanamo, ending torture, passed a fair pay bill, and has his stimulus bill halfway through congress. man, it's gotta be a rocky 90 more days to say he hasn't accomplished much.

The first 2 were already roadmapped by bush, third one was enevitable and he had no choice but to do something about the final point, if he did nothing about the economy, he would take huge flak.

He's no doubt going to be proclaimed as amazing when America starts recovering even though, if the recession lasted 4 years, he would have to fark up incredibly badly.

Hell, it would be nice if people give him 100 days! So far the right has been going full retard on the fact that Obama has not completely reform Washington and fixed the economy since he was inaugurated. In any other job he would still be waiting on access to the network drives he needs.

Darconix: When the libs make Obama's first one hundred days a campaign platform, then hell yes they're going to be held to them. Just like using "gotcha" journalism to torpedo Palin, now they have to put up with it when their dirty tricks are used against them.

Does "gotcha" journalism include such hard-hitting questions as "What newspapers do you read?"

Dr. Rosenrosen: Darconix: When the libs make Obama's first one hundred days a campaign platform, then hell yes they're going to be held to them. Just like using "gotcha" journalism to torpedo Palin, now they have to put up with it when their dirty tricks are used against them.

Does "gotcha" journalism include such hard-hitting questions as "What newspapers do you read?"

Yes, it also includes getting a third-grader to ask "What does a VP do?" She couldn't answer that (correctly) either.

/Palin 2012!
//we could use the laughs

Get with the fawning and supplicating already!

Oh dear.

All silly media benchmarks are supposed to be done away with now that President Chocolate Jesus is in the White House. Why, we shouldn't even have the media in the White House until next year, at the earliest. Let Obama create his magic undisturbed.

It's typical of Obama's fan club that there are rules for Obama and there are rules for everyone else. It goes right along with the goofy idea that Obama can't be made fun of because he's above all of that.

Obama wanted to be President, Obama can deal with all the baggage that goes along with it just like every other President has done. He's no better than any other President. He doesn't get special handling rules, no matter how much his cult cries about it.

abigsmurf: burndtdan: it's only been 10 days and he's started the process of ending the war in iraq, closing guantanamo, ending torture, passed a fair pay bill, and has his stimulus bill halfway through congress. man, it's gotta be a rocky 90 more days to say he hasn't accomplished much.

The first 2 were already roadmapped by bush, third one was enevitable and he had no choice but to do something about the final point, if he did nothing about the economy, he would take huge flak.

ending the war and iraq and closing guantanamo were roadmapped by bush? bush's people are still avidly opposing both.

the third one being inevitable would suggest that it should have happened under the prior presidency since the bulk of the torturing happened about 5 years ago.

and the last one, yes it's an emergency, but clearly one of the parties doesn't view it as a necessity to act. and either way, it's still an accomplishment.

they are all accomplishments.

barneyfifesbullet: Oh dear.

All silly media benchmarks are supposed to be done away with now that President Chocolate Jesus is in the White House. Why, we shouldn't even have the media in the White House until next year, at the earliest. Let Obama create his magic undisturbed.

It's typical of Obama's fan club that there are rules for Obama and there are rules for everyone else. It goes right along with the goofy idea that Obama can't be made fun of because he's above all of that.

Obama wanted to be President, Obama can deal with all the baggage that goes along with it just like every other President has done. He's no better than any other President. He doesn't get special handling rules, no matter how much his cult cries about it.

You comments will be very well received by other farkers, I can just see it..

/slips into a proximity suit

Now that a democrat is in office we should drop it.

barneyfifesbullet: Oh dear.

All silly media benchmarks are supposed to be done away with now that President Chocolate Jesus is in the White House. Why, we shouldn't even have the media in the White House until next year, at the earliest. Let Obama create his magic undisturbed.

It's typical of Obama's fan club that there are rules for Obama and there are rules for everyone else. It goes right along with the goofy idea that Obama can't be made fun of because he's above all of that.

Obama wanted to be President, Obama can deal with all the baggage that goes along with it just like every other President has done. He's no better than any other President. He doesn't get special handling rules, no matter how much his cult cries about it.

You trying to rile up the "Fark Obamaborg"?

Darconix: Dr. Rosenrosen: Does "gotcha" journalism include such hard-hitting questions as "What newspapers do you read?"

I'm referring more to the "who is the prime minister of Botswana" or other such bullshiat questions liberals asshats threw at Palin but not Obama or Biden.

Yeah, those are the kind of questions that really made her a laughing stock. It wasn't her inability to answer easy questions that everyone was making fun of.

/sarcasm

Spanky_McFarksalot: Now that a democrat is in office we should drop it.

The nice thing is that the right has gone full retard and resorted to completely childish and pointless biatching. In four years the public will be so sick of it that no Republican will be able to get a talking point to stick. The Republicans have found a way to do what the Democrats would never be able to do; completely shut out the Republicans as a political party.

Don't believe me? (new window)

Spanky_McFarksalot: Now that a democrat is in office we should drop it.

It started with FDR, so shut up.

Bush took 250 days off during his first 18 months in office.

But in his defense nothing major happened between January 2001 and August 2003.

Spanky_McFarksalot: Now that a democrat is in office we should drop it.


I guess my thing is......


I don't care.

Well if it will stop the media jizzfest over Obama, I'm good.

Darconix: Dr. Rosenrosen: Does "gotcha" journalism include such hard-hitting questions as "What newspapers do you read?"

I'm referring more to the "who is the prime minister of Botswana" or other such bullshiat questions liberals asshats threw at Palin but not Obama or Biden.

torch: Well if it will stop the media jizzfest over Obama, I'm good.

This times infinity.

You made my day.

the reason it can be dropped is because it's redundant. The point of the "first 100 days" idea was to evaluate a president after that period, like a check-in. With this guy, everyone's all over his sack 24/7 giving us a daily update, no need for a 100 day review.

PC LOAD LETTER: It started with FDR, so shut up

OMG! It stated with a democrat 77 years ago?? Holy balls.

Well, by all means let's put an end to it.

The reason the first 100 days will be stopped is they don't want to set any benchmarks for him to mess up. Now that they got the Messiah elected they won't dare question him or hold him accountable for what he does or doesn't get done in the first 100 days.

Darconix: I'm referring more to the "who is the prime minister of Botswana" or other such bullshiat questions liberals asshats threw at Palin but not Obama or Biden.

Interesting. Google can't find one reference of "prime minister of Botswana + Sarah Palin". You know Google? The internet? Series of tubes?

Kind've goes against the whole theme was accountability and transparency, doesn't it?

/sick of those words already

mrshowrules:
Well he has kept 6 of his promises in 10 days with 17 other promises in the works. Which would not surprise me if that surpasses what promises Bush kept in his first 100 days.

Are you counting closing Gitmo as a promise kept? Cos if you are, you are dreaming.

RoxtarRyan: FTA: "The new president has been in office one week and already the clock is ticking as to whether or not he can get a lot accomplished in the first 100 days of his presidency."

Well, using our last president as a standard, we can have a block of cheese just sitting on the oval office chair, and it will be more productive than Bush.

Government cheese, of course.

Code_Archeologist: The "First 100 days" was coined by a historian to describe FDRs first three months in office and the creation of the New Deal.

I'm pretty sure it's a reference to Napoleon's "Hundred Days" -- the length of time he remained in power after returning from his first exile.

all of you are missing the important issue from that article, namely WTF is up with that dude's head?

To be fair, Obama is the only modern president that has so much to fix then the last 4 presidents had.

He has:
1. Two wars
2. Serous economic crisis
3. Massive unemployment rate (which goes hand-in-hand with #2)
4. Education, SS, Medicare mess (to be fair, past Presidents tried to tackle this too)
5. Re-branding the American legacy so tarnished and destroyed by whathisname in charge the last 8 years
6. Building a better infrastructure

And on, and on, on...

No one can really believe Obama can fix any of these in the first 100 days. No one can be that gullible.

This partisan hack shiat is getting really old. Was he my choice? No. Do I think he was a good choice? Actually yeah, lots of people I would be a helluva lot more afraid of. Is he the second coming? NO. FOR GOD'S SAKE PEOPLE, NO. He's a politician. He's an ambitious politician, not a saint. I personally like the guy, disagree with him on some policy issues, and the role of government, but seems like he's gonna try hard.

Why the hell do I keep having to hear that all republicans are morons, or that all democrats desperately want/need the obama-dong to achieve nirvana?

Real republicans, not the farkwit talking heads are pretty reasonable, and saying that their criticisms or check's on the elation of electing obama are wrong/evil/mentally deficient is a damned fine way to screw everything up more.

I know I'm just taking a piss in the wind, but god damnit, Im tired of defendign Obama to fellow Republicans, and I'm tired of getting raked across coals because I believe in something other than Barry O. Seriously, sometimes it sounds like a bunch of hippies going on and on about the friggin Grateful Dead. Its a Fukking band, a good one, BUT A FUKKING BAND. He's a politician, a good politician, BUT A POLITICIAN.

sorry, long week...

Darconix: Dr. Rosenrosen: Does "gotcha" journalism include such hard-hitting questions as "What newspapers do you read?"

I'm referring more to the "who is the prime minister of Botswana" or other such bullshiat questions liberals asshats threw at Palin but not Obama or Biden.

No. No, no, no. I don't know a single human being that was upset that Sarah Palin didn't know the Prime Minister of Botswana - nor can I even remember her being asked that. I know plenty of people that were mortified that she couldn't name a newspaper she reads (especially those of us that know she was a journalism major).

There is no kind of journalism, "gotcha" or otherwise, that excuses her Putin Rears His Head bit. Nor can you even call that "gotcha" journalism, since it was HER campaign that developed the meme that being close to Russia made her knowledgeable about foreign policy.

And for someone who knows "more about energy" than anyone else John McCain has ever met, you'd think that even a surprise question about domestic oil production could have yielded a better return that her Fungible Molecules response.

Those weren't trick questions or sneak attacks. There is absolutely no excuse for someone who wants to be the President of the United States to be unable to at least form a coherent response to those questions, and you damn well know it.

Sinking ship is sinking.