Chapter 7
Popular Perspective: Was Obama as effective in his first 100 days as FDR? As the following links show, it depends on how you define your terms. Do you count legislative pieces introduced, bills passed, citizen approval rating or some arcane combination of all of the above? Check out the following links to get a handle on the various facets of this interesting question.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/04/28/bts.best.of.first.100.days.cnn
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-30-2009/obama-101
http://usliberals.about.com/b/2009/07/13/obama-honeymoon-over-with-americans-congress-and-thats-a-good-thing.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/06/24/honeymoons-obama/
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/first.100.days/
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121553/Obama-Job-Approval-Drifts-Down-58-So-Far-July.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/03/AR2009020303456.html?sid=ST2009080603011
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/world/americas/20iht-20webnagourney.19511350.html
http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/doug-heye/2010/2/4/forget-polls-heres-tangible-proof-the-obama-honeymoon-is-over.html
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/01/why-obama-wont-have-an-fdr-honeymoon/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/financial-crisis/obama-says-his-honeymoons-not.html