President Barack Obama's first 100 days have at times seemed a blur of activity, but he mostly has stuck to a blueprint outlined in his presidential campaign, according to an analysis of campaign promises by PolitiFact. Full Story »
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This is an altogether fair and appropriate overview of Obama's first 100 days in office. PolitiFact doesn't overstate the significance of this brief but closely watched period. The Web site seems to have set the tone for how it intends to scrutinize Obama's promises, public statements, etc., for the rest of his term.
"I guess the headline is, ‘President Obama amazes political veterans by doing what he said he’d do,’ " said Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton and a senior fellow for governance study at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
