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Presidential inauguration: 700,000 expected in D.C. to watch Obama take oath of office
Chicago Tribune ^ | 01/21/2013

Posted on 01/21/2013 7:17:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind

WASHINGTON -- Four years after making history by becoming the first African-American president, Barack Obama will kick off his second term on Monday with a scaled-back inauguration that reflects the tempered expectations for his next four years in office.

Lingering high unemployment, bitter political battles and a divisive re-election campaign have punctured the mood of optimism and hope that infused Obama's 2009 inauguration after a sweeping election win.

This time, Obama's inauguration will feature smaller crowds and a reduced slate of inaugural balls and parties to match the more subdued tenor of the times.

When Obama raises his right hand to be sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts outside the U.S. Capitol at 10:55 a.m. Chicago time, it will be his second time taking the oath in 24 hours.

He had a private swearing-in on Sunday at the White House because of a constitutional requirement that the president be sworn in on Jan. 20. Rather than stage the full inauguration on a Sunday, the main public events were put off until Monday.

Obama begins the day worshiping at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House. He will then take the oath again and deliver his inaugural address from the Capitol's west front overlooking the National Mall, where a crowd of up to 700,000 is expected to watch.

That is down significantly from the record 1.8 million people who jammed Washington in 2009 for Obama's first inauguration.

As Inauguration Day dawned and people streamed through the wintry cold toward the Capitol grounds, Washington was in security lockdown, with thousands of police and National Guard troops deployed, barricades up and Humvee military vehicles blocking major intersections.

Outside the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, an elaborate presidential viewing stand, encased in bullet-proof glass, awaited Obama and other VIPs

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To: SeekAndFind
Photobucket This is the private swearing in ceremony.
81 posted on 01/21/2013 9:01:45 AM PST by RetSignman ("A Republic if you can keep it"....)
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Obama is picking at the scab of slavery


82 posted on 01/21/2013 9:03:11 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Do you suppose he believes what he is sayin? If only....


83 posted on 01/21/2013 9:03:26 AM PST by Lakeside Granny
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That was odd...Bidens oath was longer. Protect from enemies foreign and domestic.


84 posted on 01/21/2013 9:03:46 AM PST by opentalk
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LOL Sasha is Yawning!
Pop has her bored to tears LOL!


85 posted on 01/21/2013 9:05:10 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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There is a presidential inaguration today? Time to rearrange my sock drawer.

5.56mm

86 posted on 01/21/2013 9:06:34 AM PST by M Kehoe
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Now Obie is picking at Class divisions.
This speech is just awful.


87 posted on 01/21/2013 9:07:10 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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There's a Presidential inauguration today?

I was going to watch, but I had to stick needles in my eyeballs instead.

88 posted on 01/21/2013 9:08:53 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: mylife

What a downer...so negative, or is it just me?


89 posted on 01/21/2013 9:09:23 AM PST by Lakeside Granny
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A short version of the inauguration

Invocation: Damn Whitey

Oath of office (ceremonial): Obama foursworn

Inaugural address:
Ladies and gentlemen, the affirmative action president of the United States
Condescension

Malediction: Damn Whitey

Parade: On approaching the reviewing stand, each band shall play Ruffles and Flourishes, then Rogue's March

90 posted on 01/21/2013 9:09:55 AM PST by omega4412
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“we WILL respond to the threat of climate change”!!

What a bunch of clap trap.

Worst inaugural speech ever!

Get in son gun grabbing Barry.


91 posted on 01/21/2013 9:10:38 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Yep...more spread the wealth, we need to change our country...OH no ..back to climate change.
..sacrifice, sham.....
92 posted on 01/21/2013 9:11:26 AM PST by opentalk
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To: Lakeside Granny

It’s not you.
This speech suck diddly ucks.


93 posted on 01/21/2013 9:11:59 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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94 posted on 01/21/2013 9:12:20 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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I’m watching this on Al Jazeera, just for the vibe.

He seems to be suggesting that what the Founders really meant in the Declaration of Independence was that everybody should have a big-screen TV.

Forward to socialism! We are all equal! Equal equal equal!


95 posted on 01/21/2013 9:13:17 AM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: opentalk

Now he is yapping about gays.

and Immigrants and Newtown.


96 posted on 01/21/2013 9:14:57 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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HE’S OH SO MERCIFUL TO US HIS CHILDREN! WE AMERICANS NOW HAVE A DEAR LEADER WE CAN CALL OUR OWN!

Now I’m off to vomit! :-(


97 posted on 01/21/2013 9:15:19 AM PST by Artcore
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“James regaled us with a good ol, Commie ballad by Woodie Guthrie

“America the beautiful”


Huh? It’s one of my favorite patriotic songs. What’s commie about it? And I’m pretty sure the song pre-dates Woodie Guthrie by a lot


98 posted on 01/21/2013 9:16:52 AM PST by Jacknudy
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“The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.” -President Barack Obama

Barf


99 posted on 01/21/2013 9:17:04 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: mylife

Boy, {can I say that without being caller the R word?} his speech writers must have beatten the c@#p out of him cuz I haven’t heard one “I” yet. Of no, he just said it twice.


100 posted on 01/21/2013 9:17:21 AM PST by Lakeside Granny
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