One Hundred Days: Baliouts,"Boarding and Bo

The first 100 days of President Obama's administration has become a big, huge deal on your favorite cable news channel (that is, until this swine flu thing came along). Wednesday marks the hundredth day, and the President will use the occasion to hold a prime-time news conference. Even though it will run after "American Idol", Fox is the only one of the broadcast networks that won't carry it live. Instead, they'll show the drama "Lie To Me" (subtle comment, no?).

So what has Obama been doing for the last 100 days, you ask? Plenty.

• Told the automakers and bankers that they need to get their act together if they want more government money.
• Released once-classified documents that tell us the U.S. used torture to extract information from suspected terrorists after 9/11/01. And promised never to do it again.
• Set a timetable to get soldiers out of Iraq while adding more to Afghanistan.
• Reversed George W. Bush-era policies on stem cell research, climate change and closing Guantanamo Bay.
• Shook hands with (or bowed to) heads of state Bush might have snubbed a year ago. He even taped messages to Arab-speaking countries.
• Dealt swiftly with Somali pirates who kidnapped an American sea captain.
• Oh yes, he got a dog. Maybe you've heard about that.

Every TV pundit I've heard gives the President an A grade, which is not surprising since most of them seem to be Democrats. Most polls say the country seems to feel the same way. But we think he deserves a grade of B. While he's certainly a step up from Bush, there's plenty of room for improvement.

What might the next hundred days bring for Obama? Seeing if any of the initiatives he introduced comes to fruition, or just withers on the vine. Oh, and how he handles the swine flu thing, too.