Obama's First 100 Days: Too Much Freight on the Truck?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/01/The_First_100_Days_An_Intimate_Look_at_US_Presidency

Jonathan Alter, Lou Cannon, and Robert Dallek discuss whether or not President Obama is rushing his legislation in an overly-ambitious first quarter. "Starting well is no guarantee of success," says Cannon.

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An insider's look at what it takes to set up a White House staff and how to get things accomplished, featuring a conversation about several 20th Century presidents with several biographers and historians, including Jonathan Alter, Robert Dallek, and Lou Cannon. - National Constitution Center

Jonathan Alter is a senior editor at Newsweek, where since 1991 he has written an acclaimed column on politics, history, media, and society at large. He is also an analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and three children.

Louis Cannon is an American non-fiction author and biographer. He is the most prolific biographer of US President Ronald Reagan, having written five books on him.

Robert Dallek, born May 16, 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.

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[Krumbz2003]

If President Obama can REALLY get us something similar to Universal Healthcare... he will be remembered in a positive light for a LONG time. America is DYING for affordable Healthcare Coverage... it's not even an argument. The only people who oppose it are the well funded lobbyists and promoters who act on behalf of the enormous Pharmaceutical companies. My Mother pays $533 per PILL for her cancer treatments. 5 pills a week.

It IS time for a change and SOME won't like it very much.

[zax808]

Couldn't agree with you more man. im sure you have seen the movie sicko, if you haven't. check it out.

my sympathy goes out to your mom. hope obama puts a plan into to motion that can be of a great benefit to her.

[stengevarsel]

I would never apologize for serving my country. But since you thanked me, I assumed that you assumed that I served in the US Armed Forces.

I do, however, apologize for writing before thinking.

[webbj123]

You act like you are apologizing for your service in the Norwegian Army. I respect you for standing up for your beliefs regardless of the uniform, even if it was the uniform of one of my enemies. I also have respect for certain liberals, i just think that name calling only emboldens the opposition and ends up accomplishing nothing.

[stengevarsel]

Yeah, I guess it was based on a rant. And I'm afraid it was he Norwegian army, but hey, we are allies.

[webbj123]

Thank you for your service, i mean no sarcasm in that, but your original comment states that Republicans are uneducated and childlike. THis comment is based on nothing but a rant. Admittedly their are some real idiots in the GOP, but their are just as many within the Dems.

[stengevarsel]

I forgot to mention that intelligence is the governing factor. Oh, and I served in the army too.

[webbj123]

Yeah my PhD in engineering is very uneducated and my time serving in the military made me grow up to be child unlike you with your amazing world experience which was what again?

[8av8today]

I did not vote for mr.obama but I do agree with a health care system for everyone and anyone who needs it.

My father is a doctor and he is clearly unhappy with the way the insurance companies manipulate what he can and cannot do to save the patient. It's not what the insurance company says, it should ultimately be up to the doctor to decide and the insurance to pay the bill.

That 533 dollar pill costs 5.00 to produce. I've seen them go up to 1,200 for one pill.

Hope she pulls through:)

[stengevarsel]

EDIT: What republicans want is rarely what they need.

Republicans are largely uneducated and childlike.

[stengevarsel]

Clichés is what defines US politics, at least the PR part of it. And the US media feeds on it. Education is what America needs. Common sense is key, especially when looking at it from a republican view. The Republican Party points at its followers and say: "Look, its what the people wants." In a free and safe society, what the people wants is rarely what it needs.

[angryislander56]

balls in the air

freight on the truck

cliche is all they got