Bush a Winner at 100 days - a Latino's view. Yet, President Bush has quickly proven the fervent forecasters of his inability to run the country to be lousy analysts, incompetent critics and truly poor losers. They come from many U.S. cities and are of differing Latino national origin. There are many other Latinos and Latinas already named by the President to be undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and agency directors. The FBI is checking them out.
Appointments are just one indicator of presidential performance and real interest in a constituency.
His first foreign trip as President was to Mexico making the traditional foreign policy experts gasp that he did not go to Europe or the Middle East. In February, his first Rose Garden ceremony was with 100 Latino entrepreneurs. This was just before being the first President to address a joint session of Congress - partly in Spanish. Then in early April he met with the Latino Congressional Caucus and, for a change, the diehard, tough, Democrat Latino politicos could not express the usual harsh criticism. We saw only the usual reaction to Bush charm and the expected comment that they want more commitments on their issues and will further pursue this Gringo Tejano.