{"id":323,"date":"2009-02-24T04:16:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-02-24T04:16:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T11:16:21","slug":"assessing-brand-obama-the-dog-year-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Brand Obama: The “Dog Year” Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was asked to provide thought and commentary on President Obama’s first one hundred days in office.\u00a0 The discussion takes place in Boston at an advisory board meeting this Friday.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d use the Juice Bar as a handy note pad to jot down thoughts and float some trial balloons.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the unusual.\u00a0 Typically people do that last.\u00a0 You know … tell a joke, set the stage, identify the commonalities, cite historical precedent, and then wind it all up with a handful of pithy observations and quotable quotes that are supposed to get people to say “hmm … never looked at it that way …”\u00a0 (Or if you’re the cynical sort (like me) the close often seems to be trying to get people to say “damn … that’s one smart guy!” … but I digress)<\/p>\n

So for this first foray, let’s discard all the presentation foreplay and do what my friend Bink Garrison suggests and “start backwards.”<\/p>\n

Let’s start with questions …\u00a0 questions that have been nagging me ever since I was given this assignment … and questions that suggest a conclusion or two about what is making the Obama presidency different.<\/p>\n

Today’s questions is …<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Where did the time go?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I said, the topic suggested for this panel is “Obama’s First One Hundred Days<\/span>.”\u00a0 Notice something odd about that?<\/p>\n

Yup.\u00a0 You’re right!\u00a0 President Obama is not close to being in office one hundred days.\u00a0 I haven’t had the time to figure out when his “One Hundred Day” mark will be — but my guess is that it is sometime around Easter (BTW, Happy Mardi Gras<\/a><\/strong>!).<\/p>\n

So why start talking now — in the dead of winter — about something that is not going to take place until Easter?\u00a0 Is this advisory board of mine a bit goofy?\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 Seems there are a lot of other people interested in discussing this topic well in advance of its actual occurrence.<\/p>\n

Google “Obama’s First One Hundred Days<\/a><\/strong>” and you get nearly 71 million results (all in .23 seconds!). \u00a0 For a guy that has been in office just a little over a month, President Obama already seems to many as comfortable as an old pair of jeans … so much so that folks are already writing the obituary of his first 100 days right after his first news conference.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was the Democratic primary that wouldn’t die.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is the effect of watching the nation’s economy and your personal wealth slowly but inexorably melt away.<\/p>\n

Maybe it is the ubiquitous and inescapable media that takes any event and expands, extends, and makes a five second event last for five days.<\/p>\n

But the Obama presidency already seems like dog years — every day in real time seems like seven days to us normal humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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