Eyecatchers-138: "100 days of Obama"

On April 29, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, completed 100 days in office. The media are busy evaluating him on the basis of his performance in the first hundred days, as they have done with every other President before him and they are compared with the First Hundred Days of FDR, when US was in the grip of the Great Depression. But, in a way, it seems unfair; for, the problems confronted him (and still confront him) and US when he assumed office were formidable. They were not ordinary problems nor they had immediate or easy solutions. However, to his credit, he has taken steps like $787 billion economic stimulus plan, children's health insurance program, law for equal pay for women, plan to withdraw American troops from Iraq, Closure of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp etc. Time alone can say whether he will be able to live up to the expectations of not only the people of the United States but also of the whole world. Let us and wait see.

Detailed Wikipedia article on "First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_100_days_of_Barack_Obama%27s_presidency

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