PETERSON | Tough to judge in first 100 days

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Don’t look now, but I believe the first 100 days of the Obama administration have come and gone.

Surely it must have been three months of intrigue, ground breaking changes and irreparable decisions that will echo across the ages as long as the United States of America stands the test of time, right?

Well, that whole Portuguese water dog bit was something! Michelle Obama’s J-Crew wardrobe is a real conversation piece! Oh, what about that NCAA bracket that Mr. President filled out?

Sounds like the honeymoon between Obama and the American public is still going on, even though there’s stuff to do.

The fact is that Obama as a person is popular, while his policies are not.

Every White House official knows this, and while a stubborn nation still has to take its medicine to get better, a spoonful of sugar in the form of an impressionable and likable guy as leader of the Free World in Obama is the way to take the bad taste out of everyone’s mouths, considering the increasingly bad reputation of economic bailouts.

With Wall Street picking itself off of the mat, the doom and gloom of late 2008 has seemingly taken a back seat to the precedent of national public policy and satisfying the concerns of America’s masses. To be honest, there’s no pleasing everyone – critics will be critics.

There is not a whole lot to enjoy concerning the politics on Capitol Hill these days. The jobs are still being lost, the overblown accusations of socialism are making conservatives foam at the mouth, and liberal-minded Congressmen are taking things a little too much for granted.

What needs to be done is being done, for there is nothing else left that can be done – the problem is how everyone is conducting themselves. All that is needed is the one virtue that everyone can never go without: patience.

Patience is something we all could use when dealing with any problem. If a solution does not present itself at one time, another solution will present itself at another time.

Despite the trillions of dollars lost by all parties involved, is it any more productive to lose our heads over it when the answer can be just over the horizon?

As for the first 100 days of Obama’s leadership, he’s done about everything that could be asked of any president – say the right things, do the things that won’t get the majority of Americans upset and let the cabinet positions do their jobs.

Three months in office is hard to measure an entire four-year or eight-year term in any job, especially when it’s from the Oval Office.

While the first 100 days are over, there is all the reason to make the next 100 days even better. Of course, that’s depending on one’s perspective. Again, everyone’s a critic.