The Last 100 Days

Presidents and the public always look forward to the first 100 days of a new presidency that begins on January 20th. I am sure that the public and George W. Bush are really looking forward to the LAST 100 days. What a difficult way to end any presidency and if I was # 43 I couldn't wait to retire and get out of the proverbial hot seat!

Even if Obama wins, there won't be any trashing of the offices and removing the "W" from computers as was done in the last exchange.

President Bush is down to his final 100 days in office as of Sunday. Don't expect a quiet fade into the Texas night. The bleakest economic downturn in decades has changed the dynamic drastically, keeping Bush and his financial team in activist mode to the end. While the powerful heads of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve keep making radical moves, no one elected them. Bush is the one charged with reassuring the nation that an abysmal economic period will give way to better days, even if he is long gone from Washington by the time that happens.

I'm sure that Bush had a different scenario in mind for this month of October- like campaigning and raising funds for McCain. It hasn't been widely mentioned, but having Bush holed up in the presidential office has to have some toll on the McCain campaign.

The president will keep speaking about the economy, calling world leaders about it, meeting with business owners, perhaps attending an overseas summit. His final act will be overseeing the $700 billion buyout of devalued assets from banks, in hopes that credit will start flowing to an anxious, weary country. "It looks like I'm going to have a lot of work to do between today and when the new president takes office," Bush said this past week.

And it's nothing like he envisioned. Of course starting the first year of the eight with the bombing of the twin towers totally changed whatever thought Bush once had about his tenure as president. So whay should the alst 100 days be any different?