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  • Poll to FREEP: Grade Barack Obama's Inauguration Address A, B, C, D, F

    01/21/2009 7:28:37 PM PST · by TheEaglehasLanded · 16 replies · 693+ views
    State Journal Register ^ | January 21, 2009 | the eagle has landed
    Grade Barack Obama's Inauguration Address. A 43.0% B 19.6% C 20.6% D 5.8% F 11.1% Total votes: 705
  • MSNBC: Obama Retakes Oath of Office

    01/21/2009 4:49:27 PM PST · by lewisglad · 135 replies · 4,172+ views
    MSNBC ^ | 1/21/09
    just announced, I guess he did get a do-over after all
  • Dave Barry plunges into the inaugural spirit

    01/21/2009 5:42:18 PM PST · by EveningStar · 14 replies · 991+ views
    Miami Herald ^ | January 21, 2009 | Dave Barry
    It is a great honor to march in an inauguration parade. So when a group I belong to called the World Famous Lawn Rangers of Amazing Arcola was selected to march at Barack Obama's inauguration, our reaction, as Americans, was: "The organizers of this parade must be smoking crack." I say this because we are not a traditional marching unit. We are an extremely random group of middle-age guys who carry brooms and push specially decorated show lawn mowers, which we use to perform synchronized broom-and-lawn mower maneuvers that always get a big crowd reaction (usually: "Huh?"). As you can...
  • Rush Taints Momentous Day for Green Bay Middle Schoolers

    01/21/2009 3:19:06 PM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 38 replies · 2,124+ views
    EIB Network ^ | January 21, 2009 | Rush Limbaugh
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, ladies and gentlemen, resisting the tug of popular sentiment as the Last Man Standing. I have to tell you something. Yesterday afternoon after the program, I got home, I was minding my own business, as usual. In fact, I was already working on today's program. I received an e-mail from the New York office. It was from my trusty and loyal aide-de-camp, H.R., also chief of staff. Apparently we caused quite a hubbub in Green Bay, Wisconsin, yesterday. Let me read the e-mail. This is an e-mail sent by an anal liberal teacher to I...
  • Pulpit Culprits: Mainstream Media Compares Inauguration to Spiritual Event

    01/21/2009 2:21:10 PM PST · by Erin Brown · 13 replies · 508+ views
    Culture and Media Institute ^ | January 21, 2009 | Erin Brown
    The inauguration of the first African-American president is an historic affair, one that should be properly celebrated by all. But when the so-called “objective” network anchors begin comparing a routine political ceremony to a spiritual awakening, have they gone too far? “Sacred.” “Majesty.” “Sacrament.” “Pilgrimage.” These are words loaded with religious and spiritual meaning. And they’re words used to describe the inauguration of President Barack Obama by CBS, NBC and ABC anchors on their evening and morning news shows. Perhaps the most blatant conflation of politics and spirituality came from CBS chief national correspondent Byron Pitts when he described the...
  • Do Unto Obama As Obama Did Unto Bush? You Betcha

    01/21/2009 12:29:44 PM PST · by Legal Insurrection · 32 replies · 1,410+ views
    Legal Insurrection Blog ^ | 11-21-2009 | Legal Insurrection
    I really wanted to put my disgust at Bush Derangement Syndrome behind me in approaching Obama. I was ready to put it all behind me, until the inauguration. The disrespect showed to Bush during the inauguration was too much. I'm just not that big a person to let it go. So should we do unto Obama as Obama did unto Bush? Will the country be better off with a real opposition party? As Sarah Palin would say, "you betcha."
  • The Framers of the US Constitution Argued for SMALL GOVERNMENT

    01/21/2009 11:39:15 AM PST · by Shellybenoit · 9 replies · 685+ views
    The Federalist Papers/Yidwithlid ^ | 1/21/09 | Yidwithlid
    One of the sections of Yesterday's Inauguration Speech that has been widely discussed was the President's discourse on the size of government... ....My friend John is one of the few people I know who shares an interest in the writings of the framers, the Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers were written to sell the Constitution to American People. They are the most important work of political philosophy and pragmatic government EVER written in the United States. I am sure that John would agree, that based on his speech, it is unlikely that the President ever read the Federalist Papers as...
  • MAINSTREAM O-GASM (AUDIO CLIP)

    01/21/2009 11:32:58 AM PST · by andrew roman · 1 replies · 220+ views
    Roman Around ^ | 21 January 2009 | Andrew Roman
    If skies were cloudy where you were yesterday – Inauguration Day, 2009 – don’t look to climate change for the explanation. Rather, blame it on a bloated, overloaded Cloud Nine that hovered like a Goodyear Blimp over the entirety of the nation, swollen with salivating main-stream media types, blocking out just about all light, objectivity, reason and sanity from the American airwaves and landscape. Had a cure for cancer been discovered, or Jesus’ return to Earth confirmed by two or more sources, one would still have to believe that Barack Obama’s ascendancy into the Messianic Palace would have garnered more...
  • Michelle Obama wore Isabel Toledo for the Inauguration

    01/21/2009 11:25:51 AM PST · by Mister Ghost · 43 replies · 1,030+ views
    The Fashion Time Magazine ^ | Jan 21st, 2009 | The Fashion Time Magazine
    Michelle Obama was expected to wear either Maria Pinto, Thakoon, or Oscar de la Renta for the Inauguration ceremony, but the First Lady surprised us in a good way, when she chose a striking Isabel Toledo design. The champagne yellow ensemble consisted of a gold-embossed coat and a yellow brocade shift dress with diamanté neckline. The coat was made of wool lace in a silk net, with silk radzimir underneath and a layer of pashmina for warmth. Mrs Obama paired down her outfit with green patent Jimmy Choo ‘Glacier’ pumps and olive green gloves from J. Crew.
  • VMI Marching Band and Corps in Inaugural Parade

    01/21/2009 11:01:55 AM PST · by LSUfan · 6 replies · 734+ views
    YouTube ^ | 20 Jan 09 | None
    I thought this was an impressive display: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dI-6OO6ho
  • Experts: Obama Should Swear Oath Again

    01/21/2009 10:23:48 AM PST · by Sammy67 · 113 replies · 3,382+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 1/21/09
    The presidential oath of office should be re-administered to Barack Obama because of his flub during Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony, legal experts say. Because of a mistake by Chief Justice John Roberts, Obama transposed one of the words in the oath. He should have said he will “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” but instead repeated Roberts’ cue and said he will “execute the Office of President of the United States faithfully.” Josh White of the Washington Post noted: “The presidential oath of office is required of a new president before he can execute his power, and...
  • Time to Set Aside Childish (and Racist) Prayers

    01/21/2009 10:23:22 AM PST · by foutsc · 23 replies · 794+ views
    Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 21 Jan 09 | foutsc
    Reverend Joseph Lowery gave an uplifting inauguration benediction that was marred by a racist snipe at white people: Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, man -- (laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right.So the "white" have not yet embraced "right"?...
  • No arrests made during ceremony

    01/21/2009 10:00:44 AM PST · by meowmeow · 29 replies · 1,299+ views
    The Examiner ^ | 21 Jan 09 | Scott McCabe
    Close to 1.5 million people poured onto the National Mall Tuesday, and the biggest police action appeared to be reuniting parents with their lost children, law enforcement officials said. “We had a crowd stretching from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and for the most part it was an orderly and festive,” said U.S. Park Police Sergeant Robert LaChance. “We couldn’t have asked for a better day.” No arrests were made as of Tuesday afternoon, according to D.C., National Park and U.S. Capitol police.
  • What a bunch of slobs...

    01/21/2009 9:02:18 AM PST · by ElKafir · 67 replies · 2,143+ views
    Transsylvania Phoenix ^ | Transsylvania Phoenix
    Who litters like this?
  • Obama Excludes Life in Declaration Cite in Inaugural Speech

    01/21/2009 9:13:58 AM PST · by julieee · 17 replies · 1,419+ views
    LifeNews.com ^ | 1/20/2008 | Steven Ertelt
    Washington, DC -- School children learn the line in civics and government classes -- "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Yet, incoming president Barack Obama, who likes to remind people he is a former Constitutional law professor, disregarded life as the first of the inalienable human rights.
  • Obama-media and the Bush bash to the last second...

    01/21/2009 8:29:34 AM PST · by lakeprincess · 22 replies · 1,418+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 1/21/09 | Jennifer Harper
    The press was all Obama all the time for the inauguration - with a bash of Bush and Cheney - EVEN AS THEY ARRIVED for the big event.
  • Caption Hillary Clinton

    01/21/2009 8:08:11 AM PST · by Lucky9teen · 35 replies · 1,270+ views
    Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures as she arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. In this photo released by Eli and Edythe Broad, Secretary of State designee Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a dinner hosted by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad to celebrate the inauguration of President Obama, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Washington.
  • Caption The Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service

    01/21/2009 7:56:02 AM PST · by Lucky9teen · 88 replies · 1,670+ views
    U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton sing the national anthem during the Presidential inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington January 21, 2009
  • Race Baiting at the Inauguration- Black Sphere on ECR Tonight

    01/21/2009 7:44:00 AM PST · by nysuperdoodle · 3 replies · 571+ views
    Evil Conservative Radio ^ | 21 January 2009 | EC
    Frankly I expected Barack Obama to play the race card at some point. I was even thinking of taking predictions on the radio show. It was a persistent theme in the campaign, and it's been ever-present during the media's post-coital bliss/pre-inauguration buildup. So I'm not surprised that Barack Obama has decided to keep the race card on the table for his presidency. What surprised me is the swiftness with which the issue presented itself, and the moral certainty with which the excoriation of all things "white" was delivered. I didn't expect it to happen during the inauguration. And I certainly...
  • Caption This Photo of the National Mall Post-Obamapalooza

    01/21/2009 7:15:28 AM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 88 replies · 6,636+ views
    Drudgereport ^ | January 21, 2009