100th Day noise

President Barack “No Drama” Obama passed the 100th Day signpost without breaking stride. Coming toward the 100th Day, the media tried their best to make a compelling story out of grading Obama’s overall performance on the job.

It gave the political news broadcasters yet another opportunity to prop up trash-talking spokespersons from the fringe, as if such opportunists represented widely-held views, or knew the inside story. It gave the political bloggers yet another opportunity to play rate-a-record, too. For many bloggers assigning a grade to anything is as good as it gets.

Since a lot of Republicans are sounding more “fringe” every day, it did them no good to take the bait and trot out their warmed-over, pre-2006 talking points, AGAIN.

The smartest Democrats said little to feed the story; instead, they went to a bar to celebrate the soon-to-be 60th donkey in the U.S. Senate.

Now that’s a round number that will matter.

President Obama smiled and waved, as he ran by the 100th day noise; same easy stride. In the last year-and-a-half, his much-demonstrated ability to keep on keeping on has to merit an A-plus.

And, “noise” it was, because it amounted to a cacophony of conflicting, agenda-driven flapdoodle.

Even those who disagree with Obama's policies have to admit this guy has been unflappable. Of course, for those fringe hard-heads who hate seeing most people in the world liking the president of the USA -- because they see that as a weakness -- well, perhaps Obama's smooth style will never do.