What Obama Has Shown, So Far, About His Style of Governing

in the case of Barack Obama , who will mark his 100-day milestone on Wednesday, the benchmark is being treated with unusual significance. As the first new president in eight years, the first African-American president ever, and a president called upon from the start to manage both a deep recession and two wars, his every move has been guaranteed an intense level of attention — and comparisons to FDR are more direct than most new presidents face. Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Apr. 27, 2009

using examples and sources this is a very insightful, measured summary of the hundred-days-in-office mark, identifying four important factors of pres. obama's governance style and includes risks of those factors. it's possible to see here how those factors give direction to presidential goals and potential accomplishments. .

more than most politicians, obama is highly sensitive to how interconnected the world is – and how ill-equipped the united states government can be to respond to problems that cut across bureaucratic lines of authority….

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