“ [Obama] will disappoint…but he’s still weeks away from office and he’s already backing up powerless working people, talking about hundreds of billions in government dollars being committed to building up the country, tackling health care and climate change, reiterating that deficit reduction is a low priority right now, standing by his pledge to draw down in Iraq and apparently planning to go to Cairo (probably) to give a speech on America’s new relationship to the world – a move, again, that I can’t conceive of any president of my lifetime having the guts to consider making in his first hundred days.
— Michael Tomasky assesses Obama’s performance so far. The expectations on Obama are such that he’s been judged so critically even before he takes office. Tomasky gives some historical perspective.
