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!
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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.
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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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The cult of Obama
And, so, liberty dies…
Truly, a ‘Cult of Personality’
Hare Obama Hare Obama
Obama Obama Hare Hare
Hare Barry Hare Barry
Barry Barry Hare Hare
Sing along, people!
And that’s just the press box!
Oh, great…one of the guys near me just pulled up the Obamafest on his computer. Gag me. Please.
Time to plug in the earphones.
Thank you, Michelle, for being willing to tackle this “historic day” for those of us who don’t have the stomach to handle it.
Introduced: George Walker Bush, then later Barack H. Obama.
What? Well, let’s wait ’til the actual oath, I guess.
I worry more about a political movement that has a cult like leader than a political movement that says the country is more important than the man.
I’m sure they were confused by this strange reference to God in the prayer and not Obama.
Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil (holding hands in “O” symbol).
Can someone watching tell me if the goose stepping has started yet?
I have lowered the flag at my house to half staff. It will stay there until this farce is out of the WHite House.
Has any other President been inaugurated using just his middle initial, besides Truman? Just curious.
b-cat: I’m sure the chanting was started and led by Chris Matthews and team.
Is everyone standing now?
Choking a bit on the oath…
LOL, He only screwed it up a little bit
Hey, you don’t need the ability to memorize a few words a time to be President of the United States. Saying otherwise is RAAAACIST.
Did he just screw up the oath? Guess there was no teleprompter.
He couldn’t say the Oath. Wow.
It wasn’t Obama that screwed it up. It was Roberts.
Hopefully better than RINO leadership we have had in last 8 years.
Let’s HOPE he does a better running the country than he did saying the oath
Mommaofmany,
Truman didn’t have a middle name. The S was put in so that he would connect with mainstream America. Although I don’t know if any others only used their middle initial.
As Queen Amidala said, “So this is how liberty dies: With thunderous applause.”
My flag is flying upside down today.
I wonder when the “national security force” will be out and about, rounding up us “miscontents”? All I can see now is liberty finally dying, amid throngs of cheering crowds. Well, Ben Franklin, it lasted 233 years. A grand-daughter has a birthday today. Will she ever know that her “gift” today will be her loss?
It’s the Dawn of a new Error.
Touche; where is Obi Wan when you need him?
HAHA He flubbed it!! Now he can always go back and say “I didn’t ‘really’ take the full oath”
Michelle, Obama didn’t bungle it. Go back and watch. Roberts put “faithfully” in the wrong place.
ok just to start this is like the seinfeld speech, its about nothing
RIGHTTTTTT
As someone told me this morning, just another black family moving into public housing.
Outside my window, the sky is filled with rainbows, Unicorns are prancing, bluebirds are singing, Mary Poppins just floated by…the world has changed. It’s a Miracle.
Both Obama and Roberts screwed it up. Obama jumped too early to speak, Roberts put the words in teh wrong order
Ok, so it’s official now. Can we get on with governing, and stop the campaigning? I guess, by the speech, that we cannot. Set aside “childish things”? Like the silly, vulgar rap that passed for post-racial musical skill? Oh, I bet he means conservatism, which is so primitive compared to the intellectualism of the Left.
Gag me. Even Rush has his speech on his show. Time for lunch.
Go back and watch the video. Hell, even the Freepers agree Roberts screwed up.
So, much like the Iranians holding the Embassy staff for 444 days releasing them as Reagan took office, I take it Osama bin Laden will be giving himself up any second now.
Right?
It sounds like a stump speech.
Maybe he wasn’t expecting to take an oath. He was expecting to take an O’th.
As a BDS sufferer, I can offer some advice on ODS. The country is better and stronger than you might think from its leadership. If the President does a really really bad job, even the media will figure this out sooner or later and the guy and his party will be out in the next election cycle (or the one after that in the case of Bush).
What’s this crab about it not being about whether government is too large or too small, but whether it “works?” Did our “He’s Not A Socialist” president actually SAY that?
Paging Karl Marx. Mr. Marx, phone call for you from the President of the United States…
Words not deeds the mantra of the Obama presidency
There are NO specificity, there’s NO real points to this speech. Literally its vapid and about nothing
I believe Jimmuh didn’t even use a middle initial. Seems like LBJ (first swearing in) didn’t use his name at all. In fact, the Constitution does not require that the person being sworn in state his/her name at all. Just that they will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Too bad BHO seems to believe that that same Constitution is a living, breathing document that must be “interpreted” according to the circumstances of the moment.
OMG! That’s almost as funny one of the local morning dj’s here in Raleigh doing a top 5 list of things the Obama daughters heard at school. #4? “Which one of you is Tootie”?
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.
I think MLK is crying in his grave over the fact that the first black president was elected because of the color of his skin, DESPITE the content of his character.
Truman’s mother’s side wanted his middle name to be one thing beginning with “S” and his father’s side another…they chose to make it just “S” so that both sides would be satisfied, leaving him with no middle name, and so goes the Democrat Party.
I imagine after that last quote by Obama about a war against barbarians, most of the people were thinking “Wait, we are fighting against people who hate us? I thought they just hated Bush”
Good one b-cat.
Would a paraphrase be something along the lines of:
“Ask not what you can do for your country, ask for your country to bail you out and provide for all your needs”?
Welcome to the obama recession. Everything from now on is obamas fault.
Lmao. His “unclenched fist” section of his speech was a total hypocrisy moment of the century.
Like EVERY Obama speech.
The cult comes to America
Check out the Official White House website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Fixed it for you LGM
Thats just his campaign website renamed.
Thank you, Michelle, for doing what my stomach cannot handle! I’ve learned since Nov. 4th how to mentally filter what is being spewed from the mouth of BO. To pay attention would make my “stress excema” spread further, and itch more!
What I am hearing is Rush yawning, and making me yawn too!
Yep. Also vague.
Defector01,
That got a chuckle.
Of course you realize that you are crediting the crowd with far more brains than it has, right? Half of the crowd thinks he was talking about the people who voted for Palin, while the other half are thinking “he’s soooooo dreeeaammy…”
From his speech posted on Drudge:
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank (and many many more politicians) and the Anti Prop 8 crowd and Hollyweird should heed those words. Did I leave anybody out?
Did I see people leaving on the FOX shot?
Gag…poetry sucks. Bad poetry is revolting.
RobM1981
Yeah well its early and I’m stuck in a class of 5 conservatives (including me) and the rest of a bunch of hopey changey saps so I’m trying to be optimistic but it isn’t helpful here. Oh and they stopped a class for 45minutes to watch the oath here in law school – 30K and this is what i get.
They’ll realize soon enough Obama’s an empty shell
Um, no. Forty-three. Grover Cleveland was both the 20th and 22nd.
He was big, but you can’t count him twice.
So much for change…
http://change.gov/
Oop. 22nd and 24th.
Bad poetry, empty speech…glad I’m only listening to Rush’s commentary of it – not watching on the tv. It’s going to be a long four years….
#66 – hilarious!
Uh no, Obama flubbed the oath. Plain and simple.
George W. Bush looks at Obama and under his breath says, “Be careful what you ask for…..”
Jeremiah Wright would have been more exciting than, that benediction.
A racist, anti-white prayer. Just what I expected.
Kept on looking for the “donate here” button on the whitehouse.gov page. The only white guy on all front four pictures was in the background.
dow is down 177
where is that hope and change????
the stock market must be RACIST!!
Is that what I just heard? Looks like we aren’t in post-racial America It’s still blame honky.
Regarding the flying of our flag upside down, at half-staff, etc:
It was wrong when the Democrats did it, it’s wrong now. We’re better than that.
In my opinion Obama is an empty suit at best and a dangerous Marxist at worst, but he won the election. He’s President now, and disrespecting the flag (and by extension the nation) we love won’t change that.
Did rev Wright sneak into the benediction? The racism in that so called prayer was disgusting… “when white does right”… umm yeah…
I dropped synch mentally while watching the speech. Did I miss anything?
Get a grip lgm. You expect those who have experienced the “leg tingling” to actually report they have been duped?
They have probably already “figured it out,” but the real question is, “Will they report it?”
Cue the crickets…
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Hope vibes for everyone!!!
Barack Obama the first US Ponzi Scheme President
No, that would be FDR.
Chap… sorry, not buying the false hype. What is obama doing to crush the dow today?
#41 said:
At 12:17 on 1/20/09…now you tell us this??
Correction – in the case of conservative Presidents = sooner, in the case of liberal Presidents = later.
I strenuously disagree. By recently defined, liberal standards – President Cliton’s first four years were the worst in US Presidential history to date in 1996. However, non-coverage of Clinton’s first four years, non-coverage of the 1996 DNC/Clinton reelection-financing-corruption, and an inordinate coverage of Bob Dole’s weaknesses gave every liberal reporter just what he/she was wishing for that year…four more years of a liberal in the White House.
Even in their sorry and weakened state today, never underestimate the power of the fourth branch of US government – the DNC media.
Flying the flag at half-mast or upside down is not showing disrespect for the flag. They are signals, one is a sign of mourning, the other is a sign of distress.
I would submit our nation needs to mourn having elected a CINC we know so little about and we are likely to find ourselves in an extended period of distress because of it.
Perhaps if voters had actually tried to understand who they were voting for, instead of voting because “he is so cute, etc.” such signs wouldn’t be necessary. Perhaps they should have hewn to the old adage: Caveat Emptor
Am I wrong or did Obama actually say that there’s a price for citizenship? National Service?? WTF? I know myself and many others in this country have paid our price in blood sweat and tears for us and everyone else to be citizens.
Well said. Very well said.
Someone should have proof read that racist prayer. If they did proof read it, and let it go, then this administration is not about improving race relations.
What? The band didn’t play “Obama uber alles”?
A mast is a pole on a boat with sails on it. Flags fly on staffs.
Is it just me. Her singing is like finger nails on chalk board.
Here’s an idea: All the dipsh!ts that voted for this jerk can pay the taxes of the people that didn’t vote for him. That would only be fair.
It is one of my predictions for 2009. He will reinstitute the draft, but a draftee will have a choice for “National Service”. It will be Vista, Peace Corp, Army or ACORN.
First they insisted on exploring Sara Palin’s sexual plumbing , now they give us a poet that wants you to explore hers. I’ve told you folks before. This election was all about race and sexual freedom.
These people are fundamentally ill.