Of course, it’s no surprise that I’m giving U.S. President Barack Obama a Touchdown for communications over the first 100 days of his presidency. As I have noted countless times, the guy’s a rock star when it comes to his communications prowess. MSNBC.com has a nice round-up of headlines and lead paragraphs from different major American newspapers’ coverage of his 100 days news conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them focus on different specific issues, some dealing with the economic crisis, others with Iraq and U.S. torture policy, and others with Obama’s proactive agenda items. At the end of the day, it strikes me that en masse, he has successfully positioned himself as a president who is active on two crucial fronts: dealing with the stuff he has either inherited from his predecessor or been confronted with since taking office, and also making progress on advancing his own agenda. He had a nice moment at his 100 days town hall meeting in Missouri, when he laughed at those who were surprised with all he has been doing, noting that most of it was exactly what he promised in the course of a two-year campaign for the White House. I’m sure we are in store for many hundreds of more days of fine communications examples from this president.
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