Obama's busy, bold first 10 days in office could rival Roosevelt's pace

WASHINGTON — Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt passed 15 major bills in three months during his first term as president in the early 1930s, American presidents have been judged by their first 100 days in the Oval Office.

"I do not see how any living soul can last physically going the pace that he is going, and mentally any one of us would be a psychopathic case if we undertook to do what he is doing," Republican senator Hiram Johnson said of Roosevelt in 1933.

In just 10 days, however, President Barack Obama might be giving Roosevelt a run for his money. Obama has been busily signing executive orders and bills that represent dramatic departures from the previous administration of George W. Bush. "It is a bold, aggressive start," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

Few presidents in recent memory, in fact, have burst out of the starting gates with as much speed and vigour as Obama.


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I enjoy seeing him prove the cynics wrong.

... some RW idiots desperately trying to keep the "empty suit" meme alive. I mean, even if you disagree with Obama, he clearly is not an "empty suit" by any stretch.

Hopefully he can move just a bit faster. :D

Obama's probably been carrying around his plans for a very long time, so he's just carrying these things out, much the same way JK Rowling didn't just write Harry Potter, she conjured him up years b4 actually beginning to write the story. Of course no other comparison!