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This past Wednesday marked President Obama’s 100th day in office, which he commemorated by issuing a sort of reportcard for his own administration. Saying he was “confident of the future, but not content with the present,” the 44th US president can count among his domestic accomplishments, signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, expanding publicly funded health insurance for children, lifting the ban on stem cell research, holding health care reform forums across the nation, and passing a massive economic stimulus package. Where foreign policy is concerned the President has moved to soften the tone of White House interaction with the Muslim world, close the detention center at Guantanamo, ramp down the war in Iraq, expand the war in Afghanistan, and call for an end to nuclear weapons. So far, Obama has signed a total of 19 executive orders and 12 laws, many of them reversing decisions by the Bush Administration. The concept of judging a president by his first 100 days in office harkens back to FDR’s term during which he signed many pieces of legislation intended to dramatically respond to the Great Depression. Given the popular and progressive mandate with which Obama was elected, how has he fared fared in these first 100 days and what can be expected for the next 100?

GUEST: Norman Solomon, Syndicated Columnist of “Media and Politics,” and author of “War Made Easy”