Monthly Archives: April 2009

New Column

My new column - Grading the press corps on Obama’s first 100 days - is up at http://tiny.cc/peteseat6  Check it out!

Quick Thoughts: Third Time’s a Charm?

Obama started out with issue #1 on everyone’s mind:  swine flu.  He even joined the re-branding campaign and called it H1N1.  After his opening statement, Obama’s underlying theme was focused on reminding the American people how much he has to deal with as president – he mentioned it numerous times – while the press was more [...]

Quick Thoughts: Specter

Big news today in Washington, D.C. has been journey home for Arlen Specter.  A man that started his long career as a Democrat, then switched to the GOP went back to the D’s today after flirting with the idea for quite sometime.  I liken it to Michael Jordan coming out of retirement two times…by the [...]

UPDATED: Quick Thoughts: Predicting the Presser

Ok, lets be clear: No promise any of this will happen.  But here’s what I’m looking forward to in tomorrow’s press conference.
1) Obama discussing Specter.  Will it be pure elation as we’ve seen already today or measured optimism for the potential direction for Obama’s agenda? - He’s excited but doesn’t expect to have a rubberstamp [...]

Quick Thoughts: The Flip Side

And now, the flip side of Making the Grade.
From Elkhart to Ottawa to Leno to London and back to Washington, D.C. - President Barack Obama has been on the move during his first 100 days in office.  This milestone is personal because it also celebrates my first 100 days of unemployment.
At the start, it was [...]

Quick Thoughts: Making the Grade

Last week, the White House press corps turn to their favorite past time - narcissism - and asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to grade the press corps performance over the past 100 days.  “Talk about us, Robert!”  We used to always get a kick out of those types of questions.  Gibbs proclaimed, “An [...]

Quick Thoughts: 100 Days

It’s turning into a BUSY political day after swine flu controlled the airways for the beginning part of the week.  Tomorrow is a big milestone for President Obama.  The events of his first 100 days in office can be put into three categories.  The Good.  The Bad.  And the Perceived Good.
The Good.  His plans to [...]

Mid-Day Reading List: When Swine Flu Attacks

Over 20 cases in the U.S. and over 140 in Mexico is making swine flu - a/k/a The Oink - the #1 story.  No links today, but the big stories are that the EU is asking its citizens not to travel to the U.S. & Mexico in response.  CDC says the U.S. portion of that [...]

Da Bulls

Lets be honest - they probably didn’t deserve to win the game yesterday afternoon.  The Chicago Bulls pulled ahead for a 121-118 2OT win against the defending champion Boston Celtics  at the United Center.  Had the Bulls been playing just one level better than my 1994 biddy ball team - it would have been a [...]

Mid-Day Reading List

For Friday…the 100 days reports keep a-comin.  I’ll have an analysis of how the communications aparatus has evolved - or maybe devolved? - over the past 100 days next week.
Napolitano Under Fire - for anyone that ever lived in AZ (me included) this shouldn’t come as a shock
52% say TV is necessary - I was [...]

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