Dear President Obama #95: We've got Ants!
Reporter's Note: Our President is trying to raise a puppy, tend to two children, and restore the economy. No wonder he is asking Americans to pitch in with some ideas on how to get all that done. So...
View ArticleDear President Obama #96: Afghanistan, Pakistan and The Taliban...Oh My!
Reporter's Note: On Pennsylvania Avenue, President Obama has asked Americans to help him run the country by sending him ideas. Frankly I’m close enough to bicycle over, but I continue posting a letter...
View ArticleDear President Obama #97: Report Card Notice
Reporter's Note: You would think President Obama would have more advisors than he knows what to do with. I mean, doesn’t everyone want to chat up the President? Nevertheless, he’s asked for advice from...
View ArticleDear President Obama #98: Bye Bye Bipartisanship
Reporter's Note: President Obama is rapidly closing in on the 100 day mark in his tenure as the most famous resident of Pennsylvania Avenue. And yet he has not rescinded his request for public...
View ArticleObama's Utopia for Liberals
Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee For Human Events April 29th marks President Obama’s first 100 days in the Oval Office. It is a time to reflect on how the president has...
View ArticleGive Obama an “incomplete”
Julian E. Zelizer Special to CNN When President Obama moved into the White House, press speculation immediately began about what his first 100 days would look like. Journalists as well as scholars...
View ArticleAppeasement of Sudan?
Nicholas Kristof The New York Times One hundred days in office, President Obama has done very well in international affairs with one glaring exception — Darfur. There’s increasing nervousness among...
View ArticleDear President Obama #99: Blame it on that Swine!
Reporter's Note: I am writing a letter a day to our President, Barack Obama. He has asked Americans for advice on running the country, and I will remind his staff of that if the Secret Service starts...
View ArticleDear President Obama #100: Let me count the days...
Reporter's Note: I’ve written a letter to President Obama every day since he was inaugurated. He asked for advice, and I’ve given it. What he’s done with it is anyone’s guess, but I get suspicious...
View ArticleIs Obama a Clinton or a Carter?
Program Note: Tune in tonight for full coverage of the First 100 days at 7 p.m. ET. Ed Rollins CNN Contributor Today is the 100th day of the Obama administration. Judging a president after 100 days is...
View ArticleThe first 100 days – for the Muslim World
Obama (second right) at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul during his bridge-building and sight-seeing trip to Turkey. Arsalan Iftikhar | BIO Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com “To the Muslim world, we seek a new...
View ArticleSpecter a wake-up call for GOP
John Feehery Special to CNN The departure of Arlen Specter from the Republican Party puts an exclamation point on a rough first hundred days for the national GOP in the Obama era. While many...
View Article100 Down, 900 to Go
Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation As we mark the first 100 days of his presidency, it is staggering to consider the enormous challenges President Obama inherited from his predecessor, arguably the...
View Article100 Days – and the stock market
Drew Trachtenberg Executive Producer, CNN Business News In the 100 days since President Obama has been in office, the major stock market averages are mixed. The Dow industrials are down 96 points, or...
View ArticleDear President Obama #101: Fear and loathing ... and the future looms
Reporter's Note: As President Obama launches into his second hundred days in office, I remain undaunted. He asked for advice, and until he takes back the request, I will take to the keyboard every day...
View ArticleDear President Obama #102: The return of Frankenswine!
Reporter's Note: You might think President Barack Obama would be getting more advice than a rookie driver on a Boston rotary, but he has asked for the help of his citizens on that front, and I’m...
View ArticleWhat about my hundred days?
Tom Foreman | Bio AC360° Correspondent You judge a restaurant by the happiness of the diners, not the fame of the chef. The success of the shepherd is the health of his sheep. The best coach in the...
View ArticleDear President Obama #103: Courting History
Reporter's Note: Every day I sit down to write a letter to President Obama, offering him my thoughts and suggestions. In turn, he sometimes gets a brief, faraway look in his eyes when he is making a...
View ArticleDear President Obama #104: Frenemy Territory
Reporter's Note: President Obama likes playing basketball and so do I. He has not, however, called me up for a game, so I am passing the time until the invitation comes by writing a letter a day to the...
View ArticleDear President Obama #105: Night of the living Republicans
Reporter's Note: President Barack Obama says he wants ideas from Americans. You know, if everyone sent a nickel with his or her suggestion, he’d pocket 15 million dollars. Now there’s an idea. Until he...
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