100 Days

By Theodore R. Goyins, III


2400 hours, 144,000 minutes, and 8,640,000 seconds.

This is the time it takes for our country to evaluate the current President and his administration, amid a recessionary period and two wars. The first 100 days in office as the President of the United States has always been the benchmark set for success or failure as far back in history as I can remember. Amongst all the political posturing and party rhetoric, we have still set this bar at a level hard to attain by any person, at a point in our country's history that we haven't seen in over 70 years. I am not sure if any of us have accomplished all the things we wanted to in the span of years that we have lived, let alone 100 days. But still we expect a human being to magically transform a NATION in 2400 hours. It is not my intent to gesture to the opinion that we shouldn't set benchmarks for our leaders. Contrastingly, I am all for setting goals and standards for our Commander in Chief. Nevertheless, it is important that we as citizens keep in mind when we all have set lofty goals for ourselves and it has taken longer than expected, surely we have all been there.

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