By Abdul Muhsin
MIAMI – President Barack Obama entered the White House with a vision to change not only America but the World. He first addressed the Muslim World reaching out with an “opened hand instead of a closed fist”, while reminding them that their own people only respect a government that builds and not what it destroys.
The President also announced that he would Close Guantanamo within a year, freezing all status of the detainees until his Department of Justice has a chance to investigate each case.
The President also looked at the state of the economy and with the advice of his economic advisers asked congress to have a bill on his desk that would stimulate the economy within the first three weeks of his arrival.
The President looked at the war in Iraq, and after consulting with General Odierno placed a date certain when troops will leave the combat zone.
Then our President looked at the banking system and realized that if we allowed the banks to fail the entire world’s economy would collapse into an abyss, thus banks received the funding needed to get the credit system going again.
The new President then looked at the auto industry and saw that the last American manufacturing force was about to crash and put 3 million people on the unemployment line. He made the decision to save the auto industry. The new President campaigned on a new beginning, setting a new tone, a new vision for America.
He saw fit to remind the American people that America still stood for strong ideals, integrity, innovation, a sense of caring for its people. He went around the country hit hardest by this economic crisis, Indiana 14%unemployment explaining how the stimulus package will help get Hoosiers and many Americans back to work repairing our infrastructure.
He traveled to Southwest Florida to highlight the foreclosure problem and assure homeowners and the homeless that help was coming. The President campaigned on being opened with the American people making them aware of what was happening and being honest about his approach to fixing the problems that plague this country.
The President took on all the challenges facing this country head on with a plan to remedy the ailments that were inflicted on its people for the last 8 years. His critics screamed that he was doing too much. The new President is not focused; he can’t possibly chew gum, play basketball, hit 3 pointers, check his blackberry and run his administration at the same time.
What about the financial condition of this country? Tim Giethner is disaster. What is he doing? The economy is in the toilet and he’s talking about healthcare, education, and energy. That can wait, fix the banks! Some governors were saying they don’t want any of the stimulus and others were saying the President has mortgaged our children’s future, he’s spending too much!
He’s a Keynesian economist that says that the private sector alone cannot revive the economy during a severe recession. That the public sector, the government, has to step in with large monetary infusions to stabilize the economy.
This is a theory taken from the British economist John Maynard Keynes. He’s British; this is America, why should we impose a foreign influence to fix our problem? Interesting perspective for his critics. Now it looks like the Stimulus plan is working in the banking sector. Banks are beginning to lend and turn a profit. The housing crisis, though still there, but people are beginning to buy homes and most are now working toward saving their homes from foreclosure.
The new President went to the Economic Conference in Europe and The Summit on the Americas in Trinidad, and was well received with leaders of the world stumbling over themselves to meet him and be photographed. Ummmm slight difference from the last president of the US.
President Obama taking the oath of office 100 days ago
So we can now look a first 100 days of this President and put him the category of FDR, Eisenhower, JFK and even Lincoln, with the impact he has made, plus the sweeping changes to America’s image. The new president has installed a new hope into American people and the world. His policies are yet to be determined their effectiveness, it’s too soon to tell, but boy does it feel good to know that America has changed its direction and is moving forward on the right track.
The first 100 days gets an A.
The effort is stunning, the energy is blitzing, and the confidence is exhilarating. The next 200 days will determine this new President’s effectiveness. Will the Stimulus Plan work to fix the economy? Will unemployment start to shrink? Will Healthcare pass and give healthcare to all Americans? Will Afghanistan and Iraq stabilize and those governments step up and take care of themselves? If these questions are answered in the affirmative, President Barack Obama with go down in history as one of America’s best , if not the best president this country has ever seen.
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