I have seen a few news media programs try and grade our president. I honestly don't think it is right to try to grade him this early. He has only been in office a 7 months and I honestly think the waiting period before "grading" a political official should be at least a year.
This gives you time to see a lot more than you will see in 100 days and it you can see the pros and cons of the decisions he has to make. Making all of those decisions isn't as easy as you would imagine. You have to take into consideration how it will effect the people of the U.S. How it will effect our policies with other nations. Also, if the decision will effect the rights of any group of people in the United States.
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Well the tradition has been to see how much progress the President has made since the 100 days; a tradition that began with Franklin D Roosevelt. The reason is because he had so much legislation passed in just 100 days because of the desperation to bring the US out of depression.
ReplyDeleteAlso Obama has only been President for 4 months. He was inaugurated January, elected in November. Big difference.
Also, you are indeed right that GRADING the president should be much later, its usually a few decades before we can actually see the true pro's and con's of a president because not everything is effected at once and there are usually later effects.
The 100 days idea is just to see how ACTIVE the president has been.