This characteristically cold-eyed article from Russia’s Izvestia, once the official newspaper of the Soviet government, joins in the global summing up of President Obama’s first 100 days in office, and makes a startling admission – considering the newspaper’s origins.
For Izvestia, Vasiliy Voropayev writes in part:
“Summing things up is an absorbing preoccupation. Even if so far, there isn’t much to sum up. … Every politician has to make lots of promises. Has Barack Hussein Obama begun fulfilling his? He has kept at least one. He gave his girls a doggie. … Obama is an engaging and proactive person. Even while taking the oath of office, he enthralled the Supreme Court Justice administering the oath to the point of confusion and so had to retake it. … So, one hundred days have passed. Having taken the Oval Office, Obama finds himself in a very different role that that of a senator or presidential candidate. On him depends the future of America. And yes, in fact, the future of the entire world. It is he who must decide. Such is the solitude of the White House.”
By Vasiliy Voropayev
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
April 30, 2009
Russia – Izvestia – Original Article (Russian)
Summing things up is an absorbing preoccupation. Even if so far, there isn’t much to sum up. Today, United States President Barack Obama will mark his first hundred days in the White House. He will even give a special press conference. There he will tell how hard, or, perhaps, how easy it is, to work in the Oval office.
Every politician has to make lots of promises. Has Barack Hussein Obama begun fulfilling his? He has kept at least one. He gave his girls a doggie. A cute Portuguese water dog puppy named Bo [photo, left]. And while it’s true that Obama threatened to get the family dog from a shelter for abandoned animals, he chose one from an elite breeder under the protection of family friends – the powerful Kennedy clan.
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