44, Day 90: Start of an Obama Doctrine?

An ongoing log of the daily activities of the 44th president of the United States during his first 100 days:

-Wrapping up his meetings with Latin American leaders in Trinidad, President Obama began to articulate what some see as a broader global vision. This is how the Washington Post summed it up -- "He expressed support for a more central U.S. place in global alliances, including a firm endorsement of the United Nations, and said '"we do our best to promote our ideals and our values by our example.'"

-Obama isn't worried about what people think of his friendly exchange with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. He said the book he got as a gift from Chavez was a "nice gesture ... "We had this debate throughout the campaign. I mean the whole notion was somehow that if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us that would show weakness. And the American people didn't buy it and there's a reason they didn't buy it -- because it didn't make sense."

-Look for credit card abuses to be the next target of the Obama administration. Obama economics adviser Larry Summers told NBC's Meet the Press that Obama would be "very focused in the very near term on a whole set of issues having to do with credit card abuses ... "We need to do things to stop the marketing of credit in ways that addict people to it."

Sources: The White House, the Washington Post, FoxNews.com, and Reuters.