And the crowd goes wild…Update: Obama/Roberts oath blooper; Update: Byrd/Kennedy taken away from inaugural lunch
Awaiting the Obamapotheosis, the massive crowd on the mall has broken out into chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!”
But remember: It’s not about him.
11:43am Eastern. Obama is announced: “The president of the United States, Barack H. Obama.”
Chanting in full force now: OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA!
***
11:50am Eastern. Rick Warren gives the invocation prayer. No audible boos, smattering of applause. People cheer during the prayer as Warren praises the first African-American president. He prays for “humility.”
Humility and the Obama administration do not compute.
11:56am Eastern. Ok, Aretha Franklin just melted my heart. Truly transcendent rendition of “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
Oh, no. Back to the Democrat leadership.
Wonderful performance by Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and quartet members.
12:06pm Eastern. Obama bungles the oath. The visible nervousness is humanizing.
(Update: Justice Roberts flubbed, too.)
Obama takes the podium. Again with the “humble” stuff.
He thanks President Bush for his service to the nation. Scattered applause.
He’s back in his rhythm with help from the teleprompter.
12:15pm Eastern. Obama calls for “remaking America.” Chill up the spine.
“Transform” this and that. Wallet feeling emptier by the second.
12:19pm Eastern. And again with the “humility” thing.
Obama says he’ll leave Iraq, win in Afghanistan, AND defeat the terrorists: “You cannot outlast us and we will defeat you.”
How? By relying on the diversity of America, of course! Obama gives shout out to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and non-believers.
Speech fizzles out.
12:33pm Eastern. Poet Elizabeth Alexander does a poor Maya Angelou imitation.
Reminder: She’s the magic vagina poet.
***
3:00pm Eastern. Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy both taken away from inaugural lunch for medical reasons. Byrd for eating problems. Kennedy with convulsions.
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Oh please. She gospelized the tune beyond recognition. It was pathetic. Simply pathetic.
b-Cat, you heard the press box chanting as well … LOL.
The whole thing had a Walmart after Christmas parking lot sale about it. Weird.
I wonder if the press will lie about Osama-Obama as they did about Bush? Anyone want to keep count?
I wonder when we will start hearing the press discussing what Republicans need to do to take back the WhiteHouse.
Just wondering.
And the stock market tanks…….
I think that may be Wilson or at least Franklin D.
Check out the new http://www.whitehouse.gov/
It’s flipped.
Big time emphasis on him.
Ew, ew, and ew. One of the owners had to watch the inauguration speech on tv during lunch, thankfully in another room. However, when she came in to put up their things, she couldn’t stop gushing. She said it was awesome, and she had been crying! My head was about to explode. These are people that are supposed to be smart! They’re business owners for crying out loud! It was disgusting, truly. One of my friends asked if Obummer said anything profound, and she just said how it was a wonderful speech. After she left the room, he goes “So–no.”
Oops, I meant to put “owners of the company I work for”
Most flagpoles I have seen have a flag on them!
Call it what you like, raising it to the top of the pole/staff and then slowly and reverntly lowering it to the halfway point is a sign of mourning.
I may have a job opening soon for ya.
The Prez’s Economic agenda as listed on the whitehouse website:
I boiled it down for ya.
I’m making a point of NOT watching. I can’t do it…. Your comments are giving me more then enough idea of what’s going on.
Someone help me understand. Barak was the product of Kenyan student and a white-american woman. He was raised by his white grandma. How can he possibly relate to an african-american whose ancestry includes slavery when BO’s ancestry does not. There seems to be a disconnect here….
From the education page: The Obama-Biden comprehensive “Zero to Five” plan will provide critical support to young children and their parents. Unlike other early childhood education plans, the Obama-Biden plan places key emphasis at early care and education for infants, which is essential for children to be ready to enter kindergarten. Obama and Biden will create Early Learning Challenge Grants to promote state Zero to Five efforts and help states move toward voluntary, universal pre-school.
Am I the only one, homeschooling parent or not, who gets a cold chill when I read those words?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I think “early care and education” for infants is best left to the parents. Maybe O & B are worried we won’t be quoting enough Karl Marx while spooning Gerber’s pureed peas into little Johnny’s mouth. Am I going to have a gov’t nanny at my side to help me remember which of O’s sterling qualities I’m to give lectures on while changing Johnny’s diapers? I can’t wait!
I could only watch a couple of minutes (managed to catch the ultra-eloquent oath), but did you all see the looks of rapture in the crowd?
This is less about politics and more about religion and yes, it’s all about him as The One.
I’m glad to live in a solidly red state. I hope the encroachment will be slower because of it.
Those 2 words don’t go together.
So chap, when is my court marshal for thinking obama is an idiot and refusing to call him the p word???
Waiting.
“Today’s inaugural was brought to you by Leni Riefenstahl and your local Obamamedia station”
Heil obama (or else)
Ironically, the original of the music played by Yo Yo Ma et al is “Simple Gifts,” a Shaker hymn about HUMILITY. These are the lyrics:
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free,
‘Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain’d,
To bow and to bend we shan’t be asham’d,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
Till by turning, turning we come round right.
So Obama represents humility and simplicity…right. $170 million worth of it!
Is the coronation over yet?
Can we little people get back to doing the little things that we do?
From Drudge…
Benediction at Obama ’s inauguration, by Rev. Joseph Lowery:
Now, that is an inclusive benediction, probably written by Jeremiah Wright.
/sarc off
What word is that? Pimp, panderer, pariah, prevaricator, philanderer, pusillanimously pretentious politician?
Oh…you mean Pres…um, President…
yes resident with a p in the front.
Obama didn’t mess up the oath, the Chief Justice got the words wrong.
Also ironically, this new piece composed for Obama was done by John Williams, the music director for Gilligan’s Island and theme creator for Lost in Space.
The ONE and ONLY Prevaricator in Chief is none other than William Jefferson Clinton.
John Williams also conducted the Boston Pops, wrote the Star Wars music, and is an exceptional composer.
They both got it wrong obamabot. I know your master can do no wrong. Its all bushes fault right? WRONG obama is in now, its all on your guy.
IF only this were a “three hour tour” rather than the four-year shipwreck we likely face!
Those looks of rapture in the crowd will be replaced by looks of horror as the tax bills climb, salaries plummet and the weapons we are constitutionally-guaranteed to be able to own are stripped from our hands.
Well, the looks will stay on the faces of those who benefit from this cash and arms grab. The rest will turn to horror.
I see the wonderfully articulate Obama flubbed the oath of office.
And it’s all downhill from there.
And we have always been at war with East Asia. Go away, you fascist fool.
Yep, Obama flubbed the oath. Instead of waiting for Roberts to finish his line, he started in, and that’s where things got out of control. Of course, the liberal media says Obama can do NO WRONG, and are blaming the entire flub on Roberts.
Yeah, right. OK…I’m sure they’ll be blaming everything going forward on anyone EXCEPT their chosen messiah. Give me a break.
This is beyond pathetic.
I don’t know why, but I was particularly offended by that last paragraph. Is it just me, or was that a deliberate dig on the Caucasian race?
I know the Reverend is old, but does he really believe this is still the 1960’s? Just for the record…Lincoln, a Republican, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Dr. Martin Luther King, also a Republican, set America on the path of equality. Republicans were responsible for, and in a Partisan vote, passed the Equal Rights Amendment.
Republicans want people to be free to follow their dreams, and to be the best they can be. Democrats want people, regardless of color, to be dependent on them for their standard of living; government handouts. When free people depend on others to support them, feed them, house them, when they are capable of doing that themselves, they are placing themselves into slavery. The Reverend needs to address his benediction retort to the Democrat majority, NOT to white America!
You have my permission to call him whatever you want.
As an admitted BDS’r, you must have missed the Demoleftist pre-excuse memo that the only reason Obama may “fail” is because of the mess Bush left us in. The MSM will never turn on their darling savior, Obama. If the MSM covered for Clinton with the crap he pulled (or inserted), how can you, by any stretch, think that they won’t do the same for Obama?
btw, unlike you and your kind, most conservatives do not have nDS (where n = person of imputed disgust). We will support Obama, since he is now our President. Just like we did for and against Bush, we will support him when he acts correctly but will oppose any of his wrong actions, policies, or decisions. You hate filled BDS’rs are against Bush no matter what he does. Likewise, you OWS’rs (Obama Worship Syndrome) will love anything your Savior does.
Prima Nubii?
Is it 2013 yet?
Not yet and if you keep asking we are going to pull this car over right now, young man, and you’ll be walking the rest of the way to 2013.
Look at this one from Barack’s agenda. What a fine example of getting off to a positive start:
I’m so glad that I had my cable television disconnected two months ago. I won’t have to put up with all of the idiotic praise and adoration for THE ONE whenever he burps or farts.
I suppose governors now have no responsibility or say in the emergency response?
Hopefully this provides an opportunity for Gov. Jindal to respond.
“network neutrality”, “diversity in media ownership”, “clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum”… sounds pretty ominous to me
Salt #135…
Nor mayors. Avoiding a failure of Emergency Services in a situation like Katrina will inevitably involve planting one’s foot in Ray Naguin’s posterior.
Exactly how many teats does Fedzilla (props to Uncle Ted) have anyway?
ErinF said:
Joan Baez tried that in the sixties. Nixon was the one she hadn’t voted for. The IRS wasn’t impressed.
Dexter Alarius said:
A pessimist is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Here comes the mandatory corporate gay acceptance training and God knows what else.
I just designed a bumper sticker online:
My Dog Is Smarter
Than Your President
http://www.zazzle.com/wan2009
(may not show up for a few hours)
“network neutrality”, “diversity in media ownership”, “clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum”… sounds pretty ominous to meFairness doctrine. Fixed it for you.
Too bad his teleprompter didn’t go on the blink so we could see his blank mind again. Someone wrote a great speech for him to read.
It is of little surprise that you would quote a socialist (Oscar Wilde), but if you’re going to do it you should get the quote right.
He could have used one during the administration of the oath of office, no.
He also did Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones.
At least he’s sticking to his fantasy world motif.
And don’t forget “Jaws”!
I guess the teleprompter wasn’t set up for the oath????
Also…real classy act by the disciples of O…chanting at Former President Bush…like they were at a Chicago White Sox game during a pitching change by the visitors.
Liberal/Progressive tolerance in action…
Just behaving like the carpet baggers they are!
From an AP story:
Why does this not surprise me?
Senator Schumer on Fox just called President B. Hussein Obama a moderate. Gag me.
The inauguration was TODAY?!? I watched the replay of the Florida-Oklahoma National Championship football game on cable. That was MUCH MORE interesting.
Today was described to me by my daughter at her school as so unbelievable that I couldn’t even imagine how bad it was!
Than she told me about this.
Sadly, I believed it, so I wrote about it!
hey, Misscheryl–don’t diss carpetbaggers like that.
dadinseattle…UFB. I agree, I hope the young man’s parents do sue the school district and the teacher for their actions. I’m also afraid that the schools will become “indoctrination centers” for the youth of our country soon enough…
And it’s a Socialist that believes that the government should guide product development rather than the market.
If there is a market for alternative energy sources, they will be developed and exploited. It’s government meddling in “biofuels” that has caused corn prices to rise dramatically. And corn ethanol consumes more energy during production that is gained. Brilliant.
If there is one take away from TODAY it’s that Americans (at least 1/2 anyway) are naive saps. For the whites who voted for a liberal retread, it was a way to feel good and noble about themselves, to relieve themselves of their “white guilt.”
Americans are in love with fairy tales- the improbable, not the realistic. They’re fed such drivel in the schools, that the Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics, whoever isn’t white, is a victim. Americans are fed the trite by a complicit media who isn’t interested in reporting inconvenient things like facts or data that doesn’t always fall in line with the publics’ expectations.
The Republic is burning, what with massive bailouts and concern about our reputation overseas. Americans think it’s only about jobs and financial security. What they don’t understand is when an incoming president declares that we need a new Bill of Rights and he wants to “remake” America, that should send shivers down the spines of ALL Americans.
Americans are dupes. That’s plain as day. Their new concept is that it’s all about “me.” I don’t have to work for what I want, I can just run up a credit card or get a house I can’t afford and somebody else can bail me out. Americans have voted themselves the treasury because they don’t give a damn about the country or the people who don’t agree that being president should be based more on experience, insight, wisdom, not race, hype, appearance, or scholocky, PR-induced campaign routines. Sorta what we saw with Obummer’s lackluster, mediocre inaugural address.
They have ruined whitehouse.gov by plastering his goofy face all over it like some sort of modern Hitlerization.
This man is not only a buffoon, he is a fraud and an incompetent one at that.
And, NO! he is not my President. This man can’t even get a security clearance because of his ties to radical Islamic terrorists! He has no business being allowed to live in this country let alone allowing him to be President.
Bruce: He actually has access to ALL our most sensitive information because of his position. If I had associated with ANY of the characters he has in his past and duly reported such associations (as required by law to hold the clearances I do) I wouldn’t have even a SECRET clearance.
I am hoping his first act as president is to blow the roof off the Area 51 coverup.
This from Obama’s speech:
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
Uh, Mr. President, 47% of us have already been doing that for some time. Thanks for rallying the other 53% to join us.
Finally seeing the parade on CSPAN. While waiting for my high school to go by, I almost lost my lunch watching the Dunbar dancers. If I ever caught either of my daughters dancing like that, they would be grounded until they were married.
Sorry, Chap, it was already done in the movie “Independence Day.”
I’m sure Kucinich would be pleased.
Clinton already proved the existence of flying saucers. Hillary was always throwing ‘em at Bill in the White House.
Sorry, spent the day sleeping. Got into Phoenix about four this morning, so I took the opportunity to get some rest.
Besides, why would I want to watch the beginning of the end of my nation?
It seems he voiced an opinion that is is unfair Obama can become president but he can not obtain even a drivers license without submitting his birth certificate.
Thanks to: thenma.org
His “teacher” accuses him of being “a conservative” and he proudly confirms it. The details after that are unclear but evidently it led to a two week suspension for the student and the teacher had no consequences! A suspension during finals is like a death blow for a student’s GPA
We, at least have the Card’s in the Super Bowl…cue ‘Twilight Zone Theme’
Yeah, and I’m not impressed that BO nominated a multi-year tax evader to head up the IRS.
With that being the case, why should the IRS expect anyone to pay taxes?
Typical liberal, rules for thee, but not for me.
Wow, Just watched the swearing in and the speech. He could not look anywhere else except at the teleprompters. I thought his head might snap off his neck it was swithcing back and forth so much. Good thing they have a good sound system because his voice would be trailing in and out whipping his head around like that. Just my observation. Check it out again.
@103
Your surprised? People in cities are mroe likely to have mental problems afterall. Not to mention Money does not make one smart.