Arianna Huffington: Obama’s First 100 Days: The Good, The Bad, and the Geithner:
In his appointments at almost every agency, Obama has demonstrated a desire to receive a wide range of opinion. But at Treasury, the range of opinion goes all the way from Goldman to Sachs.
Madeleine Albright: One Hundred Days:
The first one hundred days in a presidency are roughly comparable to the first one hundred yards in a mile race. Our president may not have won anything yet, but he is off to a reassuring start.
Gary Hart: Obama’s First 100 Days and the Politics of Transformation:
Crises are too important to waste and the Obama administration is using the many crises it inherited not to go backward but to launch into the new century — finally.
Robert Creamer: The First 100 Days – How Obama Scores on the Nine Qualities of Leadership:
In his first 100 days, Barack Obama has consistently scored very highly on each of the nine qualities that voters use to evaluate leaders.
Lincoln Mitchell: The First 100 Days: A Whole that is Greater than its Parts:
Not only have Obama’s first 100 days been by far the best of any president of my lifetime, but they began not a day too soon. Ultimately, what stops Obama from getting an A is his approach to addressing finance and banking issues,
While I have some serious concerns, I think Obama deserves big credit both for being bold on many important issues and in establishing confidence in himself as a strong leader.
Robert Kuttner: Obama’s First 100 Days: What’s a Presidency For?:
Obama has repeatedly declared that he would govern as a consensus builder. He wasn’t lying. However, there are two ways of achieving consensus.
Jeffrey Feldman: The American Dream and Obama’s First 100 Days:
How each of us feels, lately, as we mull over our progress towards the American dream, is one of the best measures of Obama’s job performance that I know, and it is one worth discussing at length instead of resting on the laurels of this or that poll of approval ratings.
Andy Ostroy: What Obama’s Done for America’s Confidence:
Obama’s critics can bark as loudly as they wish and continue playing the partisan rhetoric game, but the simple truth is that his first 100 days have achieved major progress.
