Obama's 100th Day in Office

I looked at the Huffington Post, Bloomberg.com, and Politico.com. These blogs are similar and different in many ways.

The Huffington Post and Bloomberg both quoted Obama as saying that he is happy we have made progress, but we still have a lot of work to do. However, that is where the similarities end between the Huffington Post and Bloomberg. The Huffington Post article by Madeleine Albright was pretty opinionated. She talked mainly about how Obama inherited the nation at a pretty unfortunate time, but that he has made several good decisions including assembling a strong and experienced team (Hilary Clinton and Biden), working with those in power internationally, making good use of the time he has had in office (talking with our neighbors and allies) and he has refrained from trivializing his positions into a bumper-sticker slogan. Then Albright goes into some of the tough questions Obama will probably be asked in the near future including ones about the Iraq War and the economy.

The Huffington Post and Politico had little in common other than that they both talked about what questions the president might be asked at his press conference tonight or in the near future.

Both Bloomberg and Politico talked about Obama's 60+ percent approval rating. However, I think Bloomberg gave a lot more information about what Obama has done in his first 100 days, whereas Politico mainly just lists some questions that Obama would most likely be asked tonight at his press conference. Bloomberg talked about the legislation that Obama is trying to get Congress to enact, where he stands on certain issues (including the Chrysler/Fiat deal), what laws he wants to put into place and when he plans on bringing the troops home from Iraq.

Overall, I would say that when it comes to describing Obama's first 100 days in office Bloomberg did the best job. The other two blogs mainly discussed questions he might be asked rather than what has happened in the last few weeks.