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So today President Obama gave his first 100 days press conference.  Man – the guy can ramble!  I guess that by repeating every single precaution against spreading the flu virus that we have all heard ad nauseum for the past several days he significantly cuts down the number of questions he can be asked in a set amount of time.  Good strategy, unless you truly want to be transparent.

My assessment of his first 100 days:

Positives:

Negatives:

• Reversing Mexico City policy so pro-life folks like me can help fund abortions
• Reversing and mocking President Bush’s very well reasoned stem cell research policy in the support of  the “false choice between sound science and moral values.”
• The Great Obama Apology Tour to Europe
• The Great Obama Apology Tour to Latin America
• Releasing the enhanced interrogation technique (not “torture”) memos so every terrorist with an internet connection now understands the limits we which will push terrorists
• Announcing the close of Gitmo without having a plan for where to relocate the terrorist detainees
• Watching North Korea launch a missle while giving an anti-nuclear speech and then doing nothing about it
• Implementing a $787 Billion stimulus package, much of which is not stimulative, and much of which is not spent this year or next
• Proposing a $1.7 Trillion budget deficit for 2009 and $1.2 Trillion budget deficit in 2010.  Can you say higher taxes and inflation?
• Demonstrating he knows how to run a car company by firing the 30+ year GM veteran and bringing in new blood – the 25 year GM veteran
• Allowing his administration to besmirsch the sacrifice and service of every Iraqi and Afganistan war veteran by painting them as potential right wing terrorists while describing real terrorist acts as “man caused disasters”
• Proposing a cap and trade energy policy under which “electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket” (His words, not mine)
• Proposing a $600+ Billion “down payment” on the precursor to single payer health care system such as exists in Canada.  Do you ever wonder why the folks in Canada come to the US for good medical treatment?

I could probably go on with the Negatives, but that is all that comes to mind now.  I will enhance this list as I recall other issues.

A lot of folks on the right would grade this performance as an “F”, but I see the top two items as more equal than the others, so I will grade him a “D”.  I am very concerned, however, that the combination of profiligate government spending, reduced energy availabilty and government controlled health care will signifcantly erode the quality of life for our kids and future generations.  We are very well at the apex of the American standard of living.  So perhaps, it should be a “D-” grade for the first 100 days.