Inauguration Day 1
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As “new age fundamentalist” Rick Warren gives the invocation, here’s the MSNBC live streaming video.
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:54:07am |
I'll be heading to a company meeting in a few minutes, so here is what we have to watch out for - in case the 0 is really Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep. (I promise, this is the last time I'll post it)
We should have foreseen this coming. Those of us who have read the ancient tomes, those of us who have even browsed the feared Necronomicon; the Unaussprechlichen Kulten; we should have known.
The rise of someone of curious parentage, with mesmerizing powers of speech; his resemblance to one spoken of only in whispers – it all presaged the catastrophe of January 20, 2009.
But if that were not enough, the other curious occurrences of the month leading up to it, should have given us warning. The earthquake in the Pacific, and the subsequent appearance of a new island, an island that could not be clearly photographed even by our most sophisticated satellites and aircraft, or approached by any ships or planes, should have been a warning.
The strange lights and noises in ancient towns that set their inhabitants on edge and set all the dogs barking, should have given us cause to think.
The mass migration of fish away from the eastern coast of the US, and the sudden disappearance of several fishing boats in sudden and unpredictable storms, should have warned us of the immanent reappearance of ancient beings long thought gone.
But we blamed all this on global warming. That is the least of our worries, now. How quaint it now seems to think that puny Man could have much of an effect in this vast world and vaster universe.
And last, we should have fled when he asked to be sworn in on an ancient “holy” book. Some thought his book was the Koran, because it was in Arabic. Others wondered at the strange leather in which it was bound. No, he was no Muslim; it was not the Koran. It was something far more ancient and far more dangerous.
It was, when he ended his oath of office, with the words “so help me, Azathoth”, that we knew. The scales, the deceptions that he had woven in front of our eyes, were so rudely torn away, and we saw that he was Nyarlathotep himself, the messenger of the Ancient Gods. The ancient text he had used was the dread Necronomicon, of the mad Arab, Abdul Alharazed. The sound we had heard, softly, unrecognizably, before, now grew in volume until it became deafening; a mad, demonic piping. Out of thin air appeared strange, grotesque creatures, dancing to this strange music, which have not since been able to get out of our minds.
The lucky ones of those present lost their sanity immediately. The Ancient Gods did not care who they destroyed – President, Senators, Ambassadors, were all the same to them. I doubt they even noticed us, the way we don't notice insects we step on. But we certainly saw them, and those who followed their appearance; eldritch beings who thought of us as food, or worse, as playthings for their depraved entertainment.
The pride of the free world was reduced to rubble in seconds. The dreams of humanity; our hopes; were changed instantly to nightmares.
The memories of what followed still haunt me; I cannot bear to write them down, and I fear that my sanity will soon be gone. But I must hold on, and write this, hoping that someday, these ancient gods will once again return to their court at the center of the universe, and Earth, our poor Earth, will have a chance to recover.
And that someone will find this, and warn the world, before they once more pick Nyarlathotep as leader.
I hear them coming now; the screams are getting closer. Fortunately, as I made my panicked escape, I had the sense to pick up a weapon from one of the then-gibbering guards. I will use it on myself before they find me. But first, I need to hide this in the hope that some humans survive.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:54:09am |
Aretha Franklin lemme rockya Aretha Franklin lemme rockya
-The Rapping Duke
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Steve Rogers Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:54:20am |
Never in the field of human politics has one man risen so high, yet accomplished so little; promised so much, yet been so vague; and hyped so much by a press that all but refused to cover his countless gaffes, goofs and stumbles as Obama.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:54:22am |
Hahahahahah all the suckers downstairs..This thread has LEG ROOM.
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:54:23am |
At least they still had the invocation. I could see a day when someone refuses to allow a prayer at the inauguration.
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DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:55:05am |
Why not the National Anthem? Too militaristic for the liberals?
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:55:16am |
We are supposed to wish the new President luck. I can't.
I don't believe it was just campaign rhetoric.
I believe he does intend to Socialize the economy.
I believe he does intend to act in ways that will appease our enemies.
I believe he does intend to act in ways that will damage Israel.
More.
I don't wish him luck in any of those possibilities.
I wish the Nation luck. I wish we have the luck to come out of an Obama administration at least not worse then where we enter.
And just maybe I pray that we get lucky and in the office Obama changes and realizes that his Leftists and radical mentors were wrong and governs much more wisely then my current fears.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:55:35am |
Closeups of black people crying... umm, this is weird.
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Truck Monkey Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:55:36am |
It is my hope and prayer that everyone behaves themselves today down at the Obamapalooza. I cannot bring myself to watch or listen to the events as it depresses me.
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kingkenrod Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:55:39am |
Americans voted for the guy who would make them feel good about themselves. Obama is the self-esteem president.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:06am |
G-d help us through these next 4 years. I'm more worried about my own personal capacity to stomach the idolatry than some other pretty major worries.
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Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:13am |
Barack "H" Obama? It's racist to mention his name at the inaugural?
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:14am |
re: #7 WriterMom
Hahahahahah all the suckers downstairs..This thread has LEG ROOM.
It's like being in the VIP room!
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:17am |
re: #8 vxbush
At least they still had the invocation. I could see a day when someone refuses to allow a prayer at the inauguration.
That self-absorbed bonehead Michael Newdow tried.
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sandspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:21am |
After noon today, we will no longer be under the protection of the President who has kept Islamic evil at bay since 9/11 ( do you remember how you felt that day? I do, and I will NEVER FORGET).
Now we will have a President who is willing to sit down with terrorists and have tea and a chat. And the world will love the USA again, now that the Cowboy has ridden off into the sunset.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:39am |
Yeesh. Look, Aretha, you're a living legend, etc., but you really massacred this song.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:41am |
re: #20 Occasional Reader
Yes-and nobody is wearing the same gown as me!
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:42am |
re: #14 Occasional Reader
Closeups of black people crying... umm, this is weird.
How long until we have scores of "Amen" coming from the crowds?
/
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Bloodnok Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:42am |
re: #16 kingkenrod
Americans voted for the guy who would make them feel good about themselves. Obama is the self-esteem president.
He's been elected First Guidance Counselor
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Erik The Red Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:48am |
re: #6 Steve Rogers
Never in the field of human politics has one man risen so high, yet accomplished so little; promised so much, yet been so vague; and hyped so much by a press that all but refused to cover his countless gaffes, goofs and stumbles as Obama.
The longer the fall. Wait for the tremors. It will be huge.
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Czarny_Smok Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:56:53am |
There just has to be other news in the world today besides the beatification of the Messiah.....
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:07am |
re: #7 WriterMom
Hahahahahah all the suckers downstairs..This thread has LEG ROOM.
Tingling leg room?
/
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freedombilly Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:21am |
Can someone please tell me why I just went onto Facebook and checked out the status of my "friends"?!?
They scare the living shit out of me. Damn musicians.
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midwestgak Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:22am |
If Pres. Bush needed a Guiding Hand, how much more . . .
. . . God bless President Obama and grant him wisdom and leadership.
God bless America.
This is so hard. tears in eyes.
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:25am |
re: #21 doppelganglander
That self-absorbed bonehead Michael Newdow tried.
He couldn't prevent it. But a future president-elect might decide not to.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:28am |
re: #14 Occasional Reader
Closeups of black people crying... umm, this is weird.
I'll give them a pass. This is a very significant day for them.
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RightLogic Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:32am |
I am still in awe that, when all is said and done, the transition of power for the greatest and most powerful country the world has ever known takes place with an oath, a handshake and the phrase, "Congratulations, Mr. President."
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rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:36am |
He's not having Roberts administer the oath? Shocker!
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:38am |
I can't watch but if any thing crazy happens i figure I'll hear about it on here.
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:45am |
My stomach hurts.
/Charlie Brown
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Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:48am |
Coworkers playing the coronation across the room, but trying to tune it out. Just heard a song get murdered.
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shivas Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:50am |
The new messiah has arrived to save us! Barak Hussein Jesus Yaweh Allah Bhudda Obama is here!
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:52am |
re: #26 vxbush
How long until we have scores of "Amen" coming from the crowds?
/
Hopefully, there'll be enough to drown out the platitudinous speech.
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sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:55am |
Yup, I'm going right after work to get naugurated.
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moonflower Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:57:59am |
This crowd has got to be the most stupid gathering of Americans ever. What a bunch of fools.
I cried when President Bush came down the stairs.
God help us all - this is going to be a disaster of monumental proportions.
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Neo Con since 9-11 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:00am |
I iz skeered! I needz to use 1 of da 7000 porta pottyies (litter boxes to you Hu-Mans)
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:04am |
One of the things I hate the most is Michelle Obama-how someone who is clearly such a bitter, unintelligent navel gazer managed to become the poster person for affirmative action, and is now Mrs. President of the United States of America. It's like a bad joke.
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_RememberTonyC Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:12am |
Thanks to President George W. Bush ... a good man who will be appreciated much more after he dies than he has been in life.
God speed "Dub."
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:18am |
re: #32 mikeymom
why do they have to 'black-up" a beautiful song and ruin it?
What, they're beat-boxing God Bless America?
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:21am |
re: #38 RightLogic
I am still in awe that, when all is said and done, the transition of power for the greatest and most powerful country the world has ever known takes place with an oath, a handshake and the phrase, "Congratulations, Mr. President."
That is the only bright spot today.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:21am |
All the best Mr. President Barack Obama. We support you and respect the office you hold. You are my President.
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x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:32am |
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:33am |
If I were Biden, I'd be sorely tempted to do the Vulcan salute.
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Pyrocles Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:34am |
Oh, come on! The One is a prolific author; he's already released TWO books! Both about himself, but....
re: #6 Steve Rogers
Never in the field of human politics has one man risen so high, yet accomplished so little; promised so much, yet been so vague; and hyped so much by a press that all but refused to cover his countless gaffes, goofs and stumbles as Obama.
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Haole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:53am |
I sure as hell hope Islamofascist are afraid of community organizers.
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Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:58:54am |
re: #48 mattm
Biden Speaks.
Will anyone listen? It's the proverbial tree falling in the proverbial forest.
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GElla Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:03am |
i am not going to watch it, too much of him, hello Britney Spears, u are our new president
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DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:03am |
re: #38 RightLogic
I am still in awe that, when all is said and done, the transition of power for the greatest and most powerful country the world has ever known takes place with an oath, a handshake and the phrase, "Congratulations, Mr. President."
America is pretty amazing even before it has Obama's supreme make-over.
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KenJen Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:12am |
I saw on the tube today that a 500 lbs. cheesecake was trucked from Eli's Cheescake Co. in Chicago to D.C. Way to be green! Someone needs to inform the new climate czar. I can hear Michelle Obama now "Let them eat cheesecake".
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:23am |
re: #56 unrealizedviewpoint
All the best Mr. President Barack Obama. We support you and respect the office you hold. You are my President.
Yes, "you salute the rank, not the man", as Dick Winters said in Band of Brothers.
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:32am |
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:40am |
I think the only reason I'm watching is so that I can tell my grand-kids that I saw the first African-American president sworn in.
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Kosh's Shadow Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:47am |
Off to my meeting. I'll check in afterwards
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 8:59:55am |
re: #61 Haole
I sure as hell hope Islamofascist are afraid of community organizers.
Oh yeah, they're shaking.
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kham Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:00am |
So as of 11:59am Biden is now the Vice President and Bush is still the President..:)
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:00am |
re: #11 Alouette
They're playing "G-d Save the Queen"
What?
Thats ours - you lot don't have a Queen!
(Or does WAB think she is 'it', now?)
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mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:03am |
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moonflower Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:11am |
Go with God, President Bush. We will not see your like again for many years.
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freedombilly Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:16am |
re: #56 unrealizedviewpoint
All the best Mr. President Barack Obama. We support you and respect the office you hold. You are my President.
I am going to go out on a limb and predict that when the Republicans regain the White House that the outgoing Democrat President will not be booed at the inauguration.
Keep it classy moonbats! Keep it classy!
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Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:29am |
re: #67 Occasional Reader
Yes, "you salute the rank, not the man", as Dick Winters said in Band of Brothers.
Dick Winters: PA native and my own personal hero.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:31am |
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Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:45am |
More music?
/the swearing in is supposed to be at noon
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guftafs Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:47am |
Everytime I click the "new comments" button I jump to the main page again.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:50am |
re: #67 Occasional Reader
Yes, "you salute the rank, not the man", as Dick Winters said in Band of Brothers.
Unless re-activated... I'm a civilian now. He doesn't get my salute.
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sandspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:00:56am |
It's official. The dumbest man in the US Senate is now the Vice President.
WTF
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:05am |
Hey, it's already noon, and Obama isn't sworn in. Technically, at this moment, we do not have a President.
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shivas Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:09am |
I would alos like to thank President Bush for his brave and faithful service to our United States. History will be much kinder to him than the MSM has.
Thank you for keeping us safe, President Bush.
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Erik The Red Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:23am |
re: #73 Zim
Well now Obama as someone not born in the USA will break the law.
When did Hawaii leave the Union? Asshat
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moonflower Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:24am |
Obama cares nothing for protocol - he is going to be late to everything. It's all about him, you know.
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RightLogic Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:27am |
re: #64 DistantThunder
America is pretty amazing even before it has Obama's supreme make-over.
America will endure as it has in the past when times were really tough.
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Sean Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:28am |
Try being an elementary school teacher today...
I had to set up the TV feed for the faculty (Staff day-no Kids). The best reception was Foxnews-I got chewed out.
I noticed the middle name is "H" today. Anybody else catch that?
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sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:29am |
re: #70 MandyManners
I think the only reason I'm watching is so that I can tell my grand-kids that I saw the first African-American president sworn in.
You say swear in, I say swear at, let's call the whole thing off!
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Bloodnok Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:36am |
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DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:39am |
I'm happy that these people are so happy, but it will be at our expense.
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Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:41am |
And just think, all this is only costing us $170 million.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:01:45am |
re: #58 Occasional Reader
If I were Biden, I'd be sorely tempted to do the Vulcan salute.
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tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:03am |
The White House website now say 'CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA'
It's over kids.
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Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:03am |
re: #73 Zim
Well now Obama as someone not born in the USA will break the law.
Um, I'm not a fan of Obama (in fact, I detest his political positions), but that comment smacks of trooferism. Face it, Hawai'i has been US territory since 1898, and a state since 1959. Obama was born on US soil.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:05am |
re: #91 bellamags
Yup. He's playing his strad too.
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mikeymom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:23am |
i'm drinking a liquid lunch--ok, its only a slim fast--could use some baileys in it i suppose
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:27am |
re: #89 Occasional Reader
Hey, it's already noon, and Obama isn't sworn in. Technically, at this moment, we do not have a President.
Until the swearing in, Bush is president I think.
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:31am |
re: #93 moonflower
Obama cares nothing for protocol - he is going to be late to everything. It's all about him, you know.
He needed a Kool.
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CIA Reject Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:02:54am |
Sorry, but I can't take any more of this. Being with you all has made it bearable for a time, but reality is now crushing in and I have to sign off for a while. I think I'll take Mrs. Reject out to lunch and maybe sit and watch planes take off and land at the local airport flight school.
And try not to think about any students who may not be interested in learning how to land...
BBL
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:03am |
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CommonCents Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:14am |
re: #23 sandspur
After noon today, we will no longer be under the protection of the President who has kept Islamic evil at bay since 9/11 ( do you remember how you felt that day? I do, and I will NEVER FORGET).
Now we will have a President who is willing to sit down with terrorists and have tea and a chat. And the world will love the USA again, now that the Cowboy has ridden off into the sunset.
Much like they loved us during Clinton's days. The heady days of WT-1, the Cole, the Embassy bombings. They even loved us here at home in Oklahoma. Ah the good ole' days are back.
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smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:15am |
re: #46 Occasional Reader
Will Biden make a gaffe?
matching muzzles.
One for Joe, and one for the wife. wonder who will design them.
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Cdat88 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:16am |
Death of the Republic.
Rise of Socialism.
Shame we have to live to see an American Idol wannabee elected to our most sacred office.
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:35am |
re: #112 Killgore Trout
What a crappy arrangement.
Nah, I like it. It's John Williams! You can't go wrong!
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Electron Shuffler Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:38am |
God help us.
God bless the United States of America.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:46am |
re: #90 shivas
History has already been much kinder to President George W. Bush. He is not, as the media tells us, the least popular president ever, but the 4th most popular president since WWII.
(See my first post on the overnight thread.)
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Bill the Cat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:48am |
Got "The Who" crankin' here... you know which song...
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:03:50am |
re: #80 buzzsawmonkey
Itzhak Perlman? Who said that the transition of power would be without violins?
Thank you for making me laugh on such a sad day for capitalism.
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:03am |
re: #13 Opinionated
We are supposed to wish the new President luck. I can't.
I don't believe it was just campaign rhetoric.
I believe he does intend to Socialize the economy.
I believe he does intend to act in ways that will appease our enemies.
I believe he does intend to act in ways that will damage Israel.
More.
I don't wish him luck in any of those possibilities.
I wish the Nation luck. I wish we have the luck to come out of an Obama administration at least not worse then where we enter.
And just maybe I pray that we get lucky and in the office Obama changes and realizes that his Leftists and radical mentors were wrong and governs much more wisely then my current fears.
The weight of the world is about to come crashing down on Obama. He's getting the job he's wanted and politicked for. He will have to fulfill his obligations to the Nation, and it is up to us to make sure that he does.
His failures will be manifest and last longer than the inane chants, swooning media and crowds.
He is just a man... a man with tremendous responsibilities and who will have to strive to live up to the prior occupant of the Office. President Bush handled the rhetoric and hatred and venom lobbed against him, his family, and his Administration with far more class than I think most anyone would ever be able to handle. That dignity served him well and history will judge him far better than the media ever could or will.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:03am |
Well...I really can't take any more of this. My co-workers are all gathered at a big screen TV and the group Obasm is too much for me to handle. Going for a run.
BBL.
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Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:09am |
My coworkers are giving me dirty looks since I started playing "Life during Wartime" by the Talking Heads.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:11am |
re: #110 unrealizedviewpoint
Until the swearing in, Bush is president I think.
No way, man. ANARCHY RULZ! There is no President! Let's all break stuff!
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Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:18am |
That's a very fine piece.
Yo-yo Ma on cello? It sounds like his touch.
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theadmiral Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:23am |
When do you think Michelle will goose Dear Leader in the side and tell him to get his freakin' nose from out of the air. Can you believe how smug this Marxist looks today?
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:27am |
re: #124 Electron Shuffler
God help us.
God bless the United States of America.
God have mercy on us for electing this man.
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tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:27am |
I don't like the redesigned White House website... Too much hope and change for me... At least the stupid O isn't there...
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:29am |
re: #110 unrealizedviewpoint
Until the swearing in, Bush is president I think.
Nope... the Constitution states his term ended at noon, sharp.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:33am |
re: #89 Occasional Reader
Hey, it's already noon, and Obama isn't sworn in. Technically, at this moment, we do not have a President.
I'm free!
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:36am |
Ah; Itzhak is leading. Watch how he raises his violin to count it out.
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Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:44am |
Yitzchak Perlman does Shaker....after the invocation, declaring the Sh'ma.
This is most indeed a weird inauguration.
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:47am |
18:33 IAEA to probe Arab claims that Israel used uranium ammunition during Gaza op (Reuters)
After all they have nothing else important to do?
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mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:49am |
re: #95 Sean
Try being an elementary school teacher today...
I had to set up the TV feed for the faculty (Staff day-no Kids). The best reception was Foxnews-I got chewed out.I noticed the middle name is "H" today. Anybody else catch that?
My school has large LED TV's used to broadcast announcements, etc. Today they are showing the Inauguration. They are using Fox News. Moonbats are not happy at all.
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:50am |
re: #112 Killgore Trout
What a crappy arrangement.
It John Williams after all, a man who never heard a musical cliche he didn't use. Over and over.
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JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:51am |
Day 1? Isn't this Day 4 already?
I was cruelly scheduled for an 11 am to 1 pm meeting today.
Oh well.
Have there been any stampedes yet?
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lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:55am |
re: #30 Czarny_Smok
There just has to be other news in the world today besides the beatification of the Messiah.....
Yes, I believe that Israel is about to get thrown under the bus.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:55am |
re: #123 vxbush
Way too fancy and overly complex. The name of the tune is "simple gifts".
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:56am |
Where are Yoko Ono and the thousand kids playing recorders?
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Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:57am |
re: #134 Occasional Reader
No way, man. ANARCHY RULZ! There is no President! Let's all break stuff!
I broke wind.
/tmi?
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smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:04:59am |
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Colonel Panik Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:04am |
re: #19 Wyatt Earp
Barack "H" Obama? It's racist to mention his name at the inaugural?
"Barack HUSSEIN! Obama!"- Rev Wright
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:11am |
re: #135 Dianna
That's a very fine piece.
Yo-yo Ma on cello? It sounds like his touch.
Yes, it was.
Uh oh, here it comes.
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DisturbedEma Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:13am |
re: #56 unrealizedviewpoint
All the best Mr. President Barack Obama. We support you and respect the office you hold. You are my President.
Ack. . .my hormones cannot take it. . .again, if you cannot honestly say that if McCain had won you would be gushing about him being your president. . .STFU
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see bs Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:14am |
Might as well stop working now since I can get the goverment cheese for the next four years.......
| 163 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:27am |
joe ROBINETTE biden funny i had not heard his middle name before
| 164 |
jill e Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:33am |
“I think those of us who voted for McCain are going to be a lot happier with Obama than the people who voted for him." --Respondee to recent NYT/CBS poll
| 167 |
bebe's boobs destroy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:43am |
OOOOOOhhh, he can use Hussein NOW!
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ThinkRight Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:47am |
One person is having a bad if not worse day than us
Hillary
LOL
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:54am |
re: #149 Kenneth
It John Williams after all, a man who never heard a musical cliche he didn't use. Over and over.
True, but many composers have done that over the years. It's not unique to Williams.
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Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:59am |
I think Bush should buy one of those hand buzzers for when he shakes Obama's hand. The press will love it! hahahahaha.
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DisturbedEma Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:05:59am |
re: #97 _RememberTonyC
you have to be moved by some of this
No I don't. . .my pursuit of happiness has no place near people who support dear leader. . .
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:01am |
re: #156 Dianna
I'm really leaving now for my run. Gotta clear my head of these thoughts.
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:03am |
Rip!
Velkom American kampers to zee Braves Newz Verld.
...and zhat's all folks.
jayzuz....
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:04am |
re: #97 _RememberTonyC
you have to be moved by some of this
I think it's kind of ironic that this is the first inauguration I've ever witnessed.
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Truck Monkey Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:05am |
re: #101 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
And just think, all this is only costing us $170 million.
It is actually private donations that are paying for this. Everything that "The One" spends after today comes out of our wallet.
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jill e Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:13am |
re: #131 WriterMom
Well...I really can't take any more of this. My co-workers are all gathered at a big screen TV and the group Obasm is too much for me to handle. Going for a run.
BBL.
Getting the same thing here...I'm feeling a headache coming on...
| 184 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:16am |
Good lord... did he practice the friggin' oath or what? Jeez.
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avanti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:19am |
re: #101 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
And just think, all this is only costing us $170 million.
Minor correction, total cost 107 million half to the feds and DC other half, by Obama.
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arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:24am |
Totally flubbed the oath! Mr. Articulate, right?
| 188 |
Neo Con since 9-11 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:26am |
Do we currently have no C-i-C? Thanks for a sign of things to come
| 189 |
kham Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:27am |
At least we can stop using the term "President Elect" now
| 190 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:27am |
CANNONS FIRING! THE MILITARY COUP HAS BEGUN!
//
| 191 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:29am |
Man he's fucking the oath all up.
Lord help us.
| 193 |
freedombilly Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:38am |
Yeah! Yippee! The rest of the world loves us again! Yippee!
/ Barf
| 195 |
RightLogic Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:42am |
And so it is that we enter a new era. May we find it all the better.
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tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:50am |
My first words to our new leader...
Congrats, Good Luck and Go To Hell.
| 199 |
rawmuse Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:53am |
I just love hearing the trumpets play "jump thru the hole in yer ass"
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_RememberTonyC Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:06:56am |
peace out folks ... God bless all of us
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:01am |
G-d bless America, and protect America till 2008.
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rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:04am |
re: #180 Truck Monkey
You mean he's finally accepting public funding?
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tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:18am |
re: #194 newsjunkie_ky
Rush said he botched the oath.
Roberts actually flubbed it and then Obama flubbed it to.
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theadmiral Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:19am |
re: #175 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
People in my office not only stood, they clapped and freakin' cheered. I guess they already have word that they'll have a unicorn waiting for them at home tonight.
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bebe's boobs destroy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:19am |
Uhhh, where are the rainbows and unicorns? What, you mean reality HASN'T magically shifted to a new paradaigm?
| 211 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:24am |
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:34am |
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FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:48am |
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRG
Well, it's kind of like taking a band-aid off. Quick and painless. And with an un-healed cut underneath. Damn.
| 218 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:53am |
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sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:07:54am |
re: #175 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Kick their chairs out from behind them.
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Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:01am |
re: #186 arizona9
Totally flubbed the oath! Mr. Articulate, right?
Yep, Mr. Clean and Articulate.
/
Obama couldn't read the newspaper without a teleprompter.
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arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:06am |
He wouldn't listen to the CJ, kept talking over him and I don't think he got that one line right. Hilarious!
| 223 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:08am |
Is there a transcript of his speech available yet?
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Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:09am |
re: #194 newsjunkie_ky
Rush said he botched the oath.
He did!
Good heavens! They complained about Bush being inarticulate? He didn't blow the oath!
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quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:13am |
Obama botched the oath! (Or was that Roberts?)
| 229 |
mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:21am |
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tupac23x Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:26am |
Hopefully, this is not like fumbling the opening kickoff in the Super Bowl.....
It's Gaffe-tastic!
| 232 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:27am |
Oh lord the oath wasn't on a teleprompter and he botched it.
| 233 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:28am |
Is it just me, or was the oath totally screwed up?
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:28am |
re: #213 Nevergiveup
I just mean-protect you all till it's PALIN/BOLTON 2008.
I really have to go...
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Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:36am |
Quick somebody check... have the oceans started to recede yet?
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:37am |
Okay, thanks Pres. Bush. Classy touch.
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Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:08:42am |
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:01am |
re: #230 ploome hineni
The idea of the botched oath being taqiyah. It's unbearable!
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smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:05am |
re: #134 Occasional Reader
No way, man. ANARCHY RULZ! There is no President! Let's all break stuff!
don't worry, that will happen later tonight.
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:07am |
I was halfway expecting him to take the Bible in his own hands and administer the oath to himself, in the manner of Charlemagne taking the crown from the Pope and placing it on his own head.
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kham Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:19am |
Is there officially peace in the Middle East now?
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avanti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:20am |
re: #186 arizona9
Totally flubbed the oath! Mr. Articulate, right?
He's got to be nervous, the reality of the tasks ahead has got to be scary.
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Bill the Cat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:22am |
So, can I stop working now? Oh, right, not the target demographic...
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:27am |
re: #234 WriterMom
I just mean-protect you all till it's PALIN/BOLTON 2008.
What calendar are you using, WM?
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:28am |
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Rebar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:33am |
I can't get this song out of my head today
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:36am |
At war against a far-reaching network of violence. WOW.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:37am |
They just zoomed in on Bush. I thought. "Thank you."
Thank you for letting them beat up on you while you kept us safe.
I'm not listening to the speech. Hot air.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:48am |
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:52am |
Did he scratch his face with his middle finger?
| 262 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:55am |
Network of violence and hatred?
We're at war with a network?
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yma o hyd Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:58am |
re: #100 WriterMom
I was gonna say 'they do now'.
Heh.
Can't wait to see how WAB behaves when she meets the real Queen.
The royal-watchers will be all over WAB like a rash - and she definitely does not have the class of a Carla Bruni ..
| 264 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:09:59am |
re: #233 Wishing
Is it just me, or was the oath totally screwed up?
He blew the oath of office.
This man is my president?
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:12am |
re: #249 avanti
He's got to be nervous, the reality of the tasks ahead has got to be scary.
That's my position. Even if you memorized it, it would be really nerve wracking to actually take that oath in front of that many people in person and viewing it worldwide.
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arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:12am |
'OMG--didnt he even practice it?'
Mr. Perfect doesn't practice.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:23am |
re: #253 Occasional Reader
OY. I fucked that up! LOLOLOLOL
I mean your NEXT election. HAHAHAHAHHAHAA
Not the last one.
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AmericanMe Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:32am |
re: #240 Nevergiveup
Who is throwing out the first ball?
No shit, it sounds like Dodger fans when Manny comes up to bat.
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Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:41am |
re: #247 doppelganglander
I was halfway expecting him to take the Bible in his own hands and administer the oath to himself, in the manner of Charlemagne taking the crown from the Pope and placing it on his own head.
I thought that was Napoleon, not Charlemagne.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:42am |
re: #256 MandyManners
At war against a far-reaching network of violence. WOW.
So it's now the War On Violence.
[sigh]
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Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:45am |
re: #220 sngnsgt
Kick their chairs out from behind them.
Nope singing along with my constant loop of Talking Heads.
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons
packed up and ready to go
Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway
a place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto
I've lived all over this town
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco
this ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey
I ain't got time for that now
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doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:46am |
re: #251 WriterMom
Where are the unicorns?
I dunno, but there's a pile of poop out there and it's not rainbow-colored.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:10:52am |
re: #247 doppelganglander
I was halfway expecting him to take the Bible in his own hands and administer the oath to himself, in the manner of Charlemagne taking the crown from the Pope and placing it on his own head.
HA. i wouldn't have been surprised.
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:06am |
The stream is more off than on, but I just heard him say "...sacrifices borne by our ancestors...."
| 287 |
SummerSong Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:06am |
I stand with my back to the TV ...
a personal and silent protest.
| 288 |
Colonel Panik Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:06am |
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vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:08am |
re: #268 3 wood
He's going after healthcare already.
He's pointing out all the ills...is he going to note the greatness of our country?
| 290 |
JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:12am |
I think I'll eschew television entirely today.
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FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:14am |
re: #262 tfc3rid
You see...uh..it's kind of a...um...social network, like, um..you know, Facebook.
| 292 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:17am |
re: #249 avanti
He's got to be nervous, the reality of the tasks ahead has got to be scary.
He sounds fine now in front of the tele-prompter.
| 293 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:22am |
re: #251 WriterMom
Where are the unicorns?
Only the liberals can see them. Only the liberals. That's our problem.
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Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:29am |
re: #258 buzzsawmonkey
That was Napoleon Bonaparte.
Correct - the Pope snuck up on Charlemagne, at least in legend.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:36am |
re: #249 avanti
He's got to be nervous, the reality of the tasks ahead has got to be scary.
So? He claims to be up to the toughest job in the world. He can practice the damn oath enough that he knows where the stops are...
| 298 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:36am |
re: #246 smokefire
don't worry, that will happen later tonight.
No, I doubt it. It's just not the mood here.
| 300 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:44am |
"Set aside childish things?"
You first, Mr. President.
| 301 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:11:47am |
| 302 |
rawmuse Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:02am |
He thinks the Constitution is a magic bag from which material, not spiritual blessings flow.
| 303 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:05am |
He's got that Southern drawl today...
Blah blah, oppotunities for everyone, blah blah.
| 304 |
Cdat88 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:08am |
Screws up the oath. I don't blame Roberts, he was trying to read it.
Now he is preachifying...
| 305 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:17am |
This is the first time I've started drinking at lunch in a long time. It's going to be a long, inebriated night.
| 309 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:34am |
Well, I would love to watch it but I can't.
I am on double duty. Someone has to pay for these promises, and take care of the uninsured.
| 310 |
freedombilly Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:36am |
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:38am |
re: #243 WriterMom
The idea of the botched oath being taqiyah. It's unbearable!
What does that mean?
| 312 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:40am |
re: #258 buzzsawmonkey
That was Napoleon Bonaparte.
I stand corrected. But that makes it even worse.
| 314 |
tupac23x Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:47am |
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Erik The Red Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:47am |
Why the fuck am I watching this? Almost puked on my laptop. Changing channels now.
| 316 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:47am |
"Greatness must be earned." Hm. I don't think you have earned it, Mr. President.
| 317 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:12:51am |
| 318 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:00am |
So far, this speech is doing nothing for me.
| 320 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:09am |
Think as the Bush staffers left they removed all the "O" keys from all the keyboards and caused thousands of dollars of damage to public property like the Clinton staffers did with the "W" keys 8 years ago? Me neither.
| 321 |
janmar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:10am |
Oh I can't take it, there are people crowded around a television where I work with deer in the headlights look on their faces. These people act as if god is speaking!
| 322 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:21am |
re: #292 x-wing
He sounds fine now in front of the tele-prompter.
Hence what the new nickname for Obama should be:
President Teleprompter.
| 326 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:35am |
When Obama's father was declared to be an immigrant was when I knew that the spin was going to get worse.....
| 327 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:36am |
A drive-by post:
I don't give a damn about the coronation inauguration.
/attention span "off" ... going outdoors to look for squirrels
| 329 |
Truck Monkey Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:42am |
re: #300 Wyatt Earp
"Set aside childish things?"
You first, Mr. President.
I happen to like shitting my pants, and will be doing it quite a bit the next 4 years. The democrat party has now officially become a baby with a gun.
| 330 |
DisturbedEma Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:45am |
re: #297 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
So? He claims to be up to the toughest job in the world. He can practice the damn oath enough that he knows where the stops are...
AND during the bailout crisis, when McCAIN SUSPENDED his campaign to go back to his JOB- dear leader declared and proclaimed that a good leader can multitask. . .
SORRY- but your prize is a booby!
| 331 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:48am |
re: #258 buzzsawmonkey
That was Napoleon Bonaparte.
What? I thought Pedro won that election?
(oh, "Bonaparte", gotcha)
| 332 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:51am |
| 333 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:13:52am |
Now we are the most powerful nation on Earth? Not during the election, right?
F You Mr. President.
| 334 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:08am |
I'm not really trying to by cynical here, and he's still got ten minutes to go, but...
Is Obama really not saying anything inspiring, or even forming a compelling argument about anything?
| 335 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:10am |
He's giving one of his standard boiler plate campaign speeches for his inaugural address,he's hopeless.
| 338 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:17am |
re: #318 rw in san diego
So far, this speech is doing nothing for me.
Check your legs for tingles... you have to pay close attention.
| 339 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:17am |
| 340 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:18am |
| 341 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:19am |
The "remaking of America"? Yeah, in your image, CBBHO.
| 342 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:22am |
All I want to watch today is W waving goodbye at Andrews, and waving hello in Texas.
| 343 |
Haole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:25am |
Hurry, start etching this in stone.
Because I ain't gonna remember a word.
| 344 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:31am |
re: #324 Iron Fist
You can't really expect him to swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, can yoou? Hasn't he promised fundamental change?
*Whimper*
| 345 |
Opinionated Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:37am |
I don't want America remade.
Just spruced up a little.
| 347 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:42am |
I've actually never heard this guy speak... He is boring... What the hell do people fawn all over him for?
| 348 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:46am |
re: #335 bulwrk
He's giving one of his standard boiler plate campaign speeches for his inaugural address,he's hopeless.
All he knows how to do is run. he has never done anything else?
| 349 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:51am |
Our cars are going to run on "soil"?!
| 350 |
Tumulus11 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:52am |
. 'Pick myself up
Dust myself off
And start all oooover again!'
| 352 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:14:59am |
Obama would have sold the rights to this speech exclusively to HBO if he could have.
| 354 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:05am |
"Pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and start all over again!"
Obama cribbed a line form a Broadway musical!
| 355 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:06am |
re: #311 newsjunkie_ky
What does that mean?
He must have wanted to do it 3 words at a time,and must not have told the CJ that.
| 356 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:09am |
It's weird hearing only snippets of the stream.
"...unity of purpose..."
"...set aside childish things..."
"...has come to reaffirm our spirit..."
He's not really saying anything, is he?
| 357 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:10am |
It's kind of like a campaign speech. Does he realize he already won?
| 359 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:17am |
re: #240 Nevergiveup
Who is throwing out the first ball?
Haha!
The republicans should start chanting "DE-FENSE! DE-FENSE!"
| 361 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:31am |
re: #331 Occasional Reader
What? I thought Pedro won that election?
(oh, "Bonaparte", gotcha)
"Eets a Sledgehammer."
| 362 |
freedombilly Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:36am |
re: #338 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Check your legs for tingles... you have to pay close attention.
I thought I had one but it turned out my leg was just asleep. False alarm!
| 363 |
snowcrash Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:36am |
Remaking America? You are scaring me. Go back to hope and change please.
| 364 |
Colonel Panik Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:40am |
re: #305 sngnsgt
This is the first time I've started drinking at lunch in a long time. It's going to be a long, inebriated night.
I've got a bottle of Luksusowa Polish potato vodka in the icebox.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow I think I would drink myself into insensibility.
| 366 |
3 wood Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:43am |
re: #289 vxbush
He's pointing out all the ills...is he going to note the greatness of our country?
Not much of it.
Fear, fear, fear.
| 369 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:49am |
The federal government is responsible for finding jobs for individuals?
| 370 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:52am |
He's using his phoney Southern preacher voice.... UGH.
| 372 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:57am |
Is he ever going to give a speech that doesn't sound like he's on the campaign trail? Can he give any specific thoughts that don't sound like a metaphor?
| 373 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:58am |
re: #320 Ozark Mountain Daredevil
They can remove all the 'O' keys all they want, the 0ne will just have to use the '0' key like everyone else.
| 374 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:15:58am |
re: #263 yma o hyd
Heh.
Can't wait to see how WAB behaves when she meets the real Queen.
The royal-watchers will be all over WAB like a rash - and she definitely does not have the class of a Carla Bruni ..
True. But I bet WAB does a sight better than CherEEEEEE.
| 375 |
hialeah007 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:00am |
Warren couldn't have gone on a few hours longer?
| 376 |
Dahveed Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:03am |
They also died for us in Fallujah. Let's not leave out the troops that are currently on the frontline or the ones that have fallen just because that war is one you don't like.
| 377 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:05am |
re: #223 MandyManners
Is there a transcript of his speech available yet?
Don't worry, it will be chiseled in marble for all time. He will make the greatest speech in history.
| 379 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:12am |
i think it showed he was nervous and may be just getting the idea how hard the job will be.
| 380 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:21am |
| 381 |
Pyrocles Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:24am |
Fox News is a network... Or a network of right-wing blogs, maybe?
re: #262 tfc3rid
Network of violence and hatred?
We're at war with a network?
| 382 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:27am |
re: #277 Honorary Yooper
I thought that was Napoleon, not Charlemagne.
(follow-up to my #340)
See the link to the image in this comment I posted yesterday
| 384 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:31am |
'He's not really saying anything, is he?'
Typical Obama speech. They are all forgetable. I'm just glad he isn't doing it in his phoney Southern accent.
| 385 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:39am |
re: #369 MandyManners
The federal government is responsible for finding jobs for individuals?
Didn't you know that? He talks about "responsibility." Apparently only government is responsible.
| 386 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:40am |
re: #369 MandyManners
The federal government is responsible for finding jobs for individuals?
To this clown, of course.
| 388 |
FrogMarch Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:47am |
no more arguing - the corruptocrats are in charge.
"the debate is over" and all that crap.
*spit*
No mention of how Barney Frank screwed up the housing market.
| 390 |
SasquatchOnSteroids Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:50am |
I'm saving all my change.
This is hunker down time for me.
| 393 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:16:59am |
re: #369 MandyManners
The federal government is responsible for finding jobs for individuals?
He thinks so!
I do not!
| 397 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:16am |
"...the question before us whether the market is a..."
"...favors only the prosper..."
I'm not liking these snippets.
| 398 |
opnion Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:18am |
One of my counterpats here has a bunch of staff in her office livestreaming this thing.
I walked by & she invited me in. I just said , "no thanks , I saw it four years ago. "Didn't go over real well.
| 399 |
BGB! Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:19am |
I wonder if these same people were saying that the President "must succeed" when Bush was in sworn in?
| 400 |
MJ Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:21am |
re: #367 rw in san diego
This is a lousy speech.
It won't be reported that way.
The MSM will say this is the greatest speech since JFK.
| 402 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:26am |
| 403 |
Irenike Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:31am |
I plan to commemorate this day by re-reading Hayek's "Road to Serfdom."
This way, I'll know what's in store for the next four years.
| 404 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:31am |
| 405 |
JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:33am |
Is the charming Mrs. Obama scowling?
| 406 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:34am |
Common defense... false choice between safety and ideals. Um, your "false choice" is, itself, a false choice, Barry.
| 407 |
right_wing2 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:37am |
Remaking America in a socialist image.
I expect the same high unemployment rates that exist in Great Britain by the time the next election rolls around.
| 408 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:42am |
re: #333 tfc3rid
Now we are the most powerful nation on Earth? Not during the election, right?
F You Mr. President.
I'm so glad to see you used his title properly. LOL
| 409 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:43am |
re: #378 mattm
Stump speech = Inauguration speech.
Remember that's the only shtick he knows.
He's never actually been in any job long enough to do anything. It's just been one campaign after the other.
| 410 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:45am |
This speech is falling flat. They've got to get out the 'applause' sign.
| 411 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:45am |
Our fathers had challenges that we can scarcely imagine?
| 412 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:46am |
| 413 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:50am |
*yawn*
Is he done yet copping the accomplishments of better men yet?
| 414 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:51am |
"You can't enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich."
Abraham Lincoln
| 415 |
Lincolntf Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:17:53am |
Did you hear that? It was a bottle of Sam Adams Boston Ale and you'll likely be hearing eleven more just like it before the day is through. By the way, the pic. of Sam on the bottle doesn't look very happy right now.
| 416 |
debutaunt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:04am |
re: #36 MandyManners
I'll give them a pass. This is a very significant day for them.
Awaiting a content of character day to celebrate.
| 418 |
Sean Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:05am |
I live in Texas. I won't mind (if the whole nation goes under) if Bush is the next President of the Republic of Texas.
I, honestly, am ready to dump the "Coasts".
| 419 |
shrike Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:06am |
Here in my downtown Toronto office building they had a big screen to broadcast this. There was much cheering when Obama was sworn in.
| 420 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:08am |
re: #371 buzzsawmonkey
That would be coal, would it not?
No, the Dirt Engine is right around the corner. You gotta believe.
| 421 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:09am |
re: #360 MandyManners
If he mentions FDR, I'll scream.
Whatever ... just do NOT try to do your Calvin avatar's thing on your monitor. Electrocution will follow.
| 424 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:15am |
The will be two Obama presidencies. The one played out in the adoring press and the other in bold stark reality.
| 425 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:17am |
re: #356 Who Watches the Watchmen?
It's weird hearing only snippets of the stream.
"...unity of purpose..."
"...set aside childish things..."
"...has come to reaffirm our spirit..."He's not really saying anything, is he?
Well, except that "unity of purpose" is scary, because it implies we all MUST get on board and do as he says.
And "set aside childish things" is phony, because it is childish to demand freebies from the government, including bail outs.
and "reaffirm our spirit" is likely the spirit of the ONE, but I'm an individual, and I live my own life for my own sake, not for the government. I'm not a collectivist.
| 426 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:18am |
re: #357 FortunateSon
It's kind of like a campaign speech. Does he realize he already won?
.................he's already running for reelection Son.
| 427 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:20am |
Pick Yourself Up
(Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
Pick yourself up...
Take a deep breath...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.Nothing's impossible, I have found
For when my chin is on the ground.
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off
And start all over again.Don't lose your confidence
If you slip
Be grateful for a pleasant trip
And pick yourself up,
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.Work like a soul inspired
Until the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again
They picked themselves up
Dust themselves off
And start'd all over again.Work like a soul inspired
Till the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again?
So take a deep breath...
Pick yourself up...
Dust yourself off
And start all over again.
| 428 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:23am |
Yep, when things start flagging, just throw in the word "believe"
| 431 |
uncle_monkey Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:27am |
Didn't anybody tell him that 44 people have not taken the oath?
| 433 |
Jamie Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:32am |
re: #395 MandyManners
He'd rather have liberty than safety?
I think he'd rather have both. I know I would.
| 434 |
mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:37am |
What's with the crowd? They are not cheering for the specifics.
| 435 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:48am |
We can't do what we choose? Humility and restraint he is advocating - ironic.
| 436 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:18:53am |
'the tempering qualities of humility and restraint'?
Fuck you.
| 437 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:03am |
Roll back the spectre of a warming planet.
| 438 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:11am |
Oh my god. So, according to Obama, we beat the Nazis with a deftly written poem? No, dude, it was mostly missles and tanks. Jesus.
| 439 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:12am |
re: #414 quickjustice
"You can't enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich."
Abraham Lincoln
He wants you to forget about that Lincoln.
| 440 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:18am |
re: #405 JammieWearingFool
Is the charming Mrs. Obama scowling?
She's making a list of those not applauding enough to deal with later.
| 441 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:19am |
re: #360 MandyManners
If he mentions FDR, I'll scream.
That's why I'm only peeking in here and there to see if Rush has started yet. I'd rather not see it; I'd rather not hear it. But any and all colorful commentary from the EIB is welcome. :-)
| 442 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:22am |
Not many people clapping for this piece of crap speech.
| 443 |
Jamie Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:26am |
| 444 |
JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:27am |
Can I officially blame everything on Obama now?
I'm hungry. Someone get me a f---king sandwich and put it on the gubmint tab.
| 445 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:30am |
Oh no, already suggesting military isn't necessary. Justness of our cause more powerful than a tank I suppose, jeeze are we screwed.
| 446 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:34am |
"We will not apologize for our way of life"
Wasn't that what you were doing for most of the campaign, Mr. President?
| 448 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:39am |
OBAMA FLUBS THE OATH... NERVES AS AMERICAN SWEARS IN 44...
Ha--Drudge calls em as he sees em.
| 449 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:41am |
re: #395 MandyManners
He'd rather have liberty than safety?
Benjamin Franklin said that. I can't believe Obama did.
| 451 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:44am |
| 452 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:46am |
A strong spirit does not reduce the military, CBBHO.
| 454 |
Ben Hur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:48am |
Was that my post that was deleted?
I thought it was a good thing that they were dis-invited.
| 455 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:49am |
The man who wrote this speech... Jon Favreau (not the guy who did the Iron Man movies).
| 457 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:53am |
"roll back the spectre of a warming planet."
Heh. I can think of a few things that would help, first by you shutting your soaring rhetoric.
| 458 |
shiplord kirel Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:56am |
From CBS's crowd shots you would think Joe Biden was the only white man in America.
| 460 |
mjwsatx Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:59am |
"Roll back the specter of a warming planet" .... as everyone is freezing their asses off on the Capitol steps.
| 461 |
karmapolice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:19:59am |
Hold your breath, we're collectively plunging into the abyss of liberal fantasy where terrorists are just mis-understood teenagers and the best way to solve anything and everything is to throw trillions of dollars that isn't your money at it.
| 462 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:07am |
hmmm...Well, forget the metaphor count -- the cliches (the old, trite worn out cliches) far, far outnumber any metaphors...(did note a couple of nature metaphors, there)..."bitter swill"? omg...
| 464 |
kham Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:08am |
re: #438 arizona9
Oh my god. So, according to Obama, we beat the Nazis with a deftly written poem? No, dude, it was mostly missles and tanks. Jesus.
and A-Bombs.
| 465 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:10am |
re: #377 Archimedes
Don't worry, it will be chiseled in marble for all time. He will make the greatest speech in history.
................How many of you admit to still having the vinyl records of Kennedy's Inaugural speeches.
| 467 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:13am |
re: #443 Jamie
Classy.
We have nothing to prove to anyone. We are not lesser because we don't apoligize... We answer to no one.
| 468 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:15am |
We won't apologize for our way of life? i thought that's what he's been doing.
Now he's trying to sound uwimplike
Did he just say Christian, Muslim and then mention Jews after the Muslims? That was intentional and symbolic.
| 470 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:20am |
Just tuning in, can't bear to watch so I'm listening on Rush.
| 473 |
Lincolntf Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:38am |
"Bitter swill?"
I hope this becomes known as the "bitter swill" speech.
| 474 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:39am |
re: #439 Ward Cleaver
He wants you to forget about that Lincoln.
That's not the Lincoln he remembers.
| 475 |
mikeymom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:41am |
bitter swill--think i'll have some of that later--is that like skunky beer?
| 476 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:53am |
re: #397 Who Watches the Watchmen?
"...the question before us whether the market is a..."
"...favors only the prosper..."I'm not liking these snippets.
/neither is the market
| 477 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:20:53am |
To the Muslim nations, a new way forward based on mutual respect....
| 479 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:02am |
This is getting ridiculous. Comments that go over the top will now be cause for immediate banning.
| 481 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:10am |
re: #444 JammieWearingFool
I liked the 1-20-13 bumper sticker idea, let me know where to order.
| 482 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:11am |
re: #469 taxfreekiller
ALERT---------------ALERT----------------ALERT---- ------
CO2 ALERT-------------------
EXCESSIVE CO2 IN THE WASHINGTON D. C. AREA-----------------
RUN-------------RUN------------------HIDE--------- ------
NOT JUST CO2------------BAD---------GAGING-----------CO2
----------------------ALERT----------------------- -----
CO2 Monsters!
/nickelodeon
| 485 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:16am |
re: #460 mjwsatx
It's just that-a specter. Specters don't really exist, but never cease to scare the impressionable.
| 486 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:17am |
Any guesstimates on how many folks are there? Can it possibly be the 2 million they were stating.
| 487 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:19am |
re: #455 lawhawk
The man who wrote this speech... Jon Favreau (not the guy who did the Iron Man movies).
Iron Man guy would have written a better speach.
| 489 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:23am |
re: #389 MandyManners
Rich are gonna' get soaked.
Mandy better rephrase that....................WE ALL ARE GONNA GET SOAKED
| 490 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:24am |
I didnt get a chance to watch the speech. How was it in all honesty?
| 491 |
AmericanMe Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:26am |
re: #419 shrike
Here in my downtown Toronto office building they had a big screen to broadcast this. There was much cheering when Obama was sworn in.
Here in my East Los Angeles manufacturing company, no one gives two shits about watching the spectacle. We're trying to figure out ways to keep our company open after laying off the 80% of the workforce.
| 492 |
dhg4 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:27am |
So far President Obama's Inaugural speech is reasonably good and sounded some conservative notes or at least non-interventionist notes.
Whoops, now he's arguing for government intervention in the economy.
It's hard to take all of his soaring rhetoric seriously when I remember that he's a Chicago politician.
Then he talks about having to choose between safety and ideals. Doesn't he watch 24?
His thoughts about our enemies is that he empasizes we will outlast them, and defeat them that way, rather than by opposing them.
| 493 |
Kreuzueber Halbmond Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:29am |
Whiskey River, take my mind. PLEASE!
| 494 |
dreader1962 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:33am |
"Non-believers"?
I mean, really - just don't mention us. I'm not really offended, it just has me a bit weirded out.
| 495 |
bebe's boobs destroy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:36am |
re: #347 tfc3rid
I've actually never heard this guy speak... He is boring... What the hell do people fawn all over him for?
You ever notice how he whistles when he speaks? Its annoying as hell.
| 496 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:41am |
re: #466 rawmuse
Did he find bin Laden yet?
Have he and WAB ever been seen in the same place at the same time?
| 497 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:41am |
re: #477 MandyManners
To the Muslim nations, a new way forward based on mutual respect....
Inshallah.
| 499 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:53am |
We can no longer ignore the suffering outside our borders...? Another slam at the Bush years....
| 501 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:21:58am |
We can no longer afford indifference to those suffering outside our borders... he states, to the most generous nation in the history of the world. Sheesh.
| 502 |
eschew_obfuscation Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:05am |
re: #420 Occasional Reader
No, the Dirt Engine is right around the corner. You gotta believe.
heh..... to be followed immediately by a 'dirt crisis' and dependence on foreign dirt, then hope and change and alternative dirt.
| 503 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:06am |
re: #479 Charles
This is getting ridiculous. Comments that go over the top will now be cause for immediate banning.
Sorry, Charles. It bothers me that everything he says can be interpreted in so many different ways. I really wish he wouldn't give the same speech he gave on the stump.
| 504 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:12am |
| 505 |
Terp Mole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:14am |
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward through mutual interest..."
What would that be? anti-capitalism?
| 506 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:17am |
At least he is thinking about our troops he is now the CinC of...
Oh boy, service, here we go!
| 507 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:19am |
Uh oh, we use too many resources. Lets start rationing!
| 508 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:29am |
| 509 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:36am |
"whispers through the ages"...."define a generation"..."spirit must inhabit us all" (count goin' up here)
| 510 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:45am |
He just took a swipe at Pres. Bush over Katrina.
| 511 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:47am |
Is this now the Bitter Swill Drinking Thread?
| 513 |
Ben Hur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:51am |
re: #479 Charles
This is getting ridiculous. Comments that go over the top will now be cause for immediate banning.
Why was my post deleted?
| 514 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:53am |
re: #402 NoSubmission
preparing for take off...
................watch out for flocks of geese, then.
| 515 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:55am |
Ok so now that Pres Obama had swept his magic stick over all the nation, has anyone felt the "change" yet?
| 516 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:55am |
The world has changed and we must change with it. No, the world needs to change to be more like us.
| 517 |
BGB! Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:22:59am |
If i recall in grade school restraint and humility always worked against the school bully.
| 518 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:01am |
"Roll back the specter of a warming planet"
Not likely bro
your friend
God
| 519 |
sandspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:03am |
re: #293 unrealizedviewpoint
Only the liberals can see them. Only the liberals. That's our problem.
Well that explains a lot
| 520 |
JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:03am |
| 521 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:05am |
Rush is playing it and yawning... LOL!
| 523 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:10am |
re: #488 buzzsawmonkey
Where there's a swill there's a way.
To those looking for a free lunch, we can now say ... "trough luck".
| 524 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:13am |
| 526 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:17am |
re: #490 nobamadada
I didnt get a chance to watch the speech. How was it in all honesty?
It was easy to dance to, but had no melody. I'd give it a 5
| 527 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:19am |
re: #479 Charles
This is getting ridiculous. Comments that go over the top will now be cause for immediate banning.
Just repeating - for those who missed your final warning.
| 528 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:21am |
| 529 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:25am |
re: #469 taxfreekiller
It's more like this, tfk,
THE NWS ISSUES AN
EXCESSIVE BULLSHIT ALERT
FOR THE IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON, DC AREA
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS.
:-)
| 530 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:25am |
re: #501 Occasional Reader
We can no longer afford indifference to those suffering outside our borders... he states, to the most generous nation in the history of the world. Sheesh.
Yeah, how much did President Bush give to AIDS in Africa?
| 531 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:27am |
I cannot follow the abstractions that he's referring to because I know that he has different definitions than I do for those same things.
| 532 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:29am |
re: #505 Terp Mole
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward through mutual interest..."
What would that be? anti-capitalism?
Jew-hatred?
| 533 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:30am |
re: #457 vxbush
"roll back the spectre of a warming planet."
Heh. I can think of a few things that would help, first by you shutting your soaring rhetoric.
The Sun is already ahead on that gameplan....
And I again had to clear off that nasty global warming off my property yesterday - twice.
| 534 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:31am |
And the 2012 campaign is underway! Obama makes a quick break out of the gate with a stump speech on the Capitol steps....
| 535 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:37am |
| 537 |
karmapolice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:37am |
re: #499 DistantThunder
We can no longer ignore the suffering outside our borders...? Another slam at the Bush years....
Wasn't it Bush and PEPFAR that saved millions of Africans?
| 538 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:40am |
This is a speech which will have very memorable snippets that will look good on T-shirts.
Put together, they become incoherent drivel.
| 539 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:52am |
re: #505 Terp Mole
"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward through mutual interest..."
What would that be? anti-capitalism?
Silly... Sharia...
| 540 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:23:53am |
re: #500 Killgore Trout
Thanks Killgore. I kind of figured that.
| 541 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:01am |
re: #434 mattm
What's with the crowd? They are not cheering for the specifics.
That's how they voted....nothing specific, a dream, a hope, a change....
I feel goooooood...and knew I would.....got rid of Bush...and so I should!
/do I have to?
| 542 |
unreconstructed rebel Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:04am |
Tomorrow is a new day.
Let's pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, learn from our mistakes and press on.
| 543 |
Opinionated Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:06am |
| 544 |
midwestgak Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:12am |
re: #490 nobamadada
I didnt get a chance to watch the speech. How was it in all honesty?
Still going on.
| 545 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:13am |
re: #499 DistantThunder
We can no longer ignore the suffering outside our borders...? Another slam at the Bush years....
That's idiotic. No president did more to alleviate suffering in, say, Africa than Bush did.
| 546 |
yma o hyd Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:15am |
re: #374 wahabicorridor
True. But I bet WAB does a sight better than CherEEEEEE.
Dunno about that - her and Chereeeee are birds of a feather, down to the impaired fashion sense, the sense of entitlement, the hypocrisy and the large lower part of their bodies (ok, they can't help that - ist just an observation ...).
If she wants to do betetr than chereee, she better practise curtseying, because Chereeee was tooo Neostalinist to even do that!
| 548 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:21am |
Until now, the American nation never has helped to reduce poverty outside its borders.
/sarc
| 549 |
Ben Hur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:27am |
re: #524 Charles
Because links to Diana West are not welcome here.
OK.
Sorry.
Don't know who she is.
Found that through a link.
| 550 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:33am |
re: #490 nobamadada
I didnt get a chance to watch the speech. How was it in all honesty?
It's still on,and it sucks donkeys'.
| 551 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:33am |
| 552 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:34am |
re: #531 DistantThunder
I cannot follow the abstractions that he's referring to because I know that he has different definitions than I do for those same things.
Plus, it's just too many platitudes strung together with little coherence.
This is not a good speech.
| 553 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:39am |
| 556 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:43am |
| 557 |
Jamie Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:48am |
re: #467 tfc3rid
We have nothing to prove to anyone. We are not lesser because we don't apoligize... We answer to no one.
I suspect you could have adequately expressed that sentiment without calling the President of the United States an asshole. Don't immediately become the ODS equivalent of BDS.
| 560 |
opnion Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:24:59am |
This clown gave a shout out to "The most opulent world capital to the smallest village where my father was born." Barry, dad split when you were two, cut the crap. How about something nice about Grandma?
| 561 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:00am |
It was a DEmocrat that implemented Jim Crow laws - I forget which one.
| 562 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:15am |
re: #511 Occasional Reader
Is this now the Bitter Swill Drinking Thread?
Or the Switter Bill Thread, all depends on when you started drinking.
| 563 |
jill e Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:17am |
"The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”—Mahatma Gandhi
| 564 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:19am |
| 565 |
snowcrash Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:22am |
Funny, things said that resonated with me brought only silence from the audience.
| 566 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:32am |
re: #501 Occasional Reader
We can no longer afford indifference to those suffering outside our borders... he states, to the most generous nation in the history of the world. Sheesh.
He's Marxist. Their fundamental "given" is that the US is corrupt and greedy. History and reality intrudeth not.
| 567 |
Creeping Eruption Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:36am |
re: #562 sngnsgt
Or the Switter Bill Thread, all depends on when you started drinking.
'bout 2 hours ago, you?
| 569 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:43am |
so many words, so much hot air so far hasn't said anything
| 570 |
wiffersnapper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:25:46am |
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
| 575 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:06am |
These are pretty long, run on sentences - I can't keep up with the subjects and predicates.
| 576 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:07am |
Why is he so angry? This is getting scary.
| 577 |
Tumulus11 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:07am |
. It's just not the same speech without the constant chants of 'Yes, we can!'
| 578 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:08am |
| 579 |
Dave the..... Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:18am |
re: #510 MandyManners
He just took a swipe at Pres. Bush over Katrina.
Is he going to ridicule the Coast Guard for rescuring 10's of thousands?
I just walked by a TV here at work and he said something about we'll be judged better because now we will build nations instead of destroying them. Did I hear that right?
| 581 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:23am |
Attention Republican Politicians: Remember this day and make the necessary changes to take the White House back in 2012.
| 582 |
Jamie Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:26am |
re: #524 Charles
Because links to Diana West are not welcome here.
Ugh...she's a Nirth Cirtifikit nutjob.
| 583 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:28am |
re: #557 Jamie
Should I have respect for a man who is pals with an unrepentant domestic terrorist? Rev. Wright? Rezko? Please...
Sour grapes, sure. Optimistic? Wish I could be.
| 585 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:33am |
| 586 |
doppelganglander Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:35am |
re: #561 DistantThunder
It was a DEmocrat that implemented Jim Crow laws - I forget which one.
It was a lot of Democrats, all across the South.
| 587 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:37am |
re: #530 tfc3rid
Yeah, how much did President Bush give to AIDS in Africa?
As Otter said in Animal House, "Don't stop him. He's on a roll."
| 592 |
Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:47am |
Are these inauguration speeches always so long?
| 593 |
Erik The Red Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:48am |
| 595 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:52am |
He's trying WAY too hard. Oh god, now he's lapsing into the phoney Southern accent. Wow, tepid applause for a very tepid speech. Not well delivered, either.
| 596 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:53am |
| 598 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:26:58am |
re: #507 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
We use the resources we work to acquire, or I should be more accurate, each individual uses the resources he works to acquire.
However, of the entire earth we only use a supremely tiny percentage of teh resources out there. He has no idea how bit this world is. Even with our greatest effort we've only been able to drill a few miles deep into the earth, and that was a pin prick.
Not to mention the fact that matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
Not to mention the fact that the earth is but a tiny rock in a massive universe.
The resources claim is one big canard sold to us by charlatans.
| 599 |
Opinionated Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:04am |
Is that all there is?
Even Chris Matthews' leg isn't going to feel a tingle.
| 600 |
Dahveed Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:04am |
re: #551 NoSubmission
HE's always boring.
Hey. The MSM promised me Kennedy, FDR and Abe Lincoln rolled into one speech. And I feel short-changed!
| 601 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:09am |
It'll be interesting to hear what the pundits have to say about this speech. I was disappointed.
| 602 |
SagamoreGal Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:09am |
I'd feel a lot safer if we had the new president from "24" as our commander-in-chief than The Messiah.
I was never a fan of Bush in his second term but I truly believed he went to bed every night asking the Lord to give him guidance every to help keep our country safe from terrorists' attacks. Obama's Chief of Staff will probably place a printout of the previous night's NBA scores on O's desk rather than the CIA/FBI briefings.
| 603 |
FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:09am |
Ugh. He is speechifying now. This is Campaign Season 08, The Sequel.
| 604 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:16am |
Well, that was boring. That tingling feeling all over my body was me falling asleep.
| 605 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:17am |
Way too many metaphors. But I hope he is serious about passing freedom on to our children and our children's children.
| 607 |
fish Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:19am |
I was writing some snarky comments about The Address I just heard, and couldn't bring myself to post them. For the sake of our nation I hope he does well. Or at least doesn't f up too badly. We survived Carter he can't be much worse than that, can he?
| 609 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:25am |
re: #573 ryannon
Flash:
NASA reports Ozone Hole has closed!
And all the homeless in America have just moved into fashionable townhomes!
| 610 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:27am |
I cannot wait until next week's State of the Union Address.
Perhaps we will get some real details on what he plans on budgeting for...
| 612 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:40am |
No terror attack since 911.....and counting...I hope you all read about Al Queda's failed experiment with Bubonic plague that killed 40.
| 613 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:49am |
A lot of people spent a lot of time and money to sit in the cold and take a nice nap outdoors.
| 614 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:27:56am |
Sound, not much fury.
/signifying nothing
| 615 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:03am |
I still say the best parts of the speech are when he quoted George Washington and Jerome Kern.
| 616 |
opnion Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:04am |
re: #542 unreconstructed rebel
Tomorrow is a new day.
Let's pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, learn from our mistakes and press on.
True, no more weak candidates & shut down the open primaries.
| 617 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:04am |
Rush said he's waiting for the chiseler to come in and start engraving the speech. Ha!
| 619 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:05am |
| 620 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:06am |
| 621 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:06am |
| 623 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:07am |
re: #601 rw in san diego
It'll be interesting to hear what the pundits have to say about this speech. I was disappointed.
They will love it and say it was the best ever. You watch and see.
| 624 |
KingKenrod Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:08am |
I did not find that inspiring. And here come the poets. I'm outta here.
| 625 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:17am |
re: #579 Dave the.....
re: #510 MandyManners
Is he going to ridicule the Coast Guard for rescuring 10's of thousands?I just walked by a TV here at work and he said something about we'll be judged better because now we will build nations instead of destroying them. Did I hear that right?
I think that was in regards to how Muslim leaders will be better respected if they build their nations instead of tearing things down.
| 626 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:23am |
re: #610 tfc3rid
I cannot wait until next week's State of the Union Address.
Perhaps we will get some real details on what he plans on budgeting for...
Gotta make some room for WELFARE in that budget
| 630 |
ryannon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:41am |
Can anyone remember anything he said?
Why do I feel let down?
| 631 |
snowcrash Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:45am |
On a scale of 1 to 10? Sure didn't live up to the hype of Obama being a gifted orator.
| 632 |
Creeping Eruption Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:47am |
re: #619 sngnsgt
I'm having a 3 Martini lunch with a beer chaser.
Three bloody breakfast so far - I'll worry about lunch later.
| 633 |
apachegunner Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:56am |
I hear we must stop using things for comfort because the rest of the world hasn't got them. Thermostats at 62, lights filled with chemical hazards of mecury, drive less and walk more, spread out our wealth to the peoples of the world, quit living comfortably and start living more like the cave men lived, one with the earth. And now a stupid poem by someone I've never heard of.
| 634 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:58am |
Does this mean that I can stop paying my mortgage now?
/
| 635 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:28:59am |
omg, forget it -- yeah more of! Now it's doggerel!
| 636 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:00am |
re: #557 Jamie
BDS is hatred of Pres. Bush without any justification.
We have reason to believe Pres. Obama means the country harm (on purpose or because of lack of understanding of what makes it great).
Therefore, not ODS.
/am I the only one who is getting sick of people using ODS as an attempt to silence dissent?
| 637 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:04am |
In other news today, Chrysler and FIAT are pairing up.
/not kidding
| 639 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:09am |
re: #612 DistantThunder
No terror attack since 911.....and counting...I hope you all read about Al Queda's failed experiment with Bubonic plague that killed 40.
There has been no terror attack since Obama took office!
/
| 640 |
Pyrocles Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:09am |
I think he means the suffering of the Palestinians and other poor, oppressed, and thus violent Muslim populations. Poverty alone causes terrorism in the Liberal worldview - ideology has nothing to do with it.
re: #530 tfc3rid
Yeah, how much did President Bush give to AIDS in Africa?
| 642 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:10am |
Hm, publicly-commissioned poetry... rarely good.
| 644 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:15am |
"All about us is noise".
so shut up already.
| 645 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:18am |
| 646 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:19am |
"All about us is noise." LOL! Pretty damn expensive noise.
| 648 |
Dave the..... Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:30am |
Very mediocre speech. He's no JFK.
That's not what tomorrow's papers will say. For that matter, they'll say how great historic groud breaking memberable this speach is for days.
| 649 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:31am |
WTF is this poem all about? How messed up we are but CBBHO is here to fix us?
| 650 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:32am |
This is being done, so as to make Obama's speech look good.
| 653 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:39am |
| 654 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:43am |
Sorry, any poem that contains the word "boombox"...
| 655 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:43am |
re: #607 fish
I was writing some snarky comments about The Address I just heard, and couldn't bring myself to post them. For the sake of our nation I hope he does well. Or at least doesn't f up too badly. We survived Carter he can't be much worse than that, can he?
Carter facilitated the installation of the Ayatollah - and we are still paying the price.
| 656 |
JammieWearingFool Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:29:52am |
Has the soaring oratory been chiseled in marble yet?
| 659 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:04am |
Wow, somehow I am now filled with HopeyChange!
///
| 660 |
mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:06am |
re: #641 Dianna
Not this blasted "poet"; she's dreadful!
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring!
| 661 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:12am |
| 662 |
Lincolntf Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:14am |
"Americans clinging to their bitter swill, with antipathy towards beers that are not like their own."
Did I hear that right?
| 663 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:16am |
| 664 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:26am |
re: #592 Killgore Trout
Are these inauguration speeches always so long?
Sometimes they're much longer. The longest one on record was given on a very chilly and wet March 3 by William Henry Harrison.
| 665 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:28am |
| 666 |
unreconstructed rebel Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:34am |
| 667 |
Random_Lizard Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:35am |
See Spot
See Spot Run
Run Spot Run
Am I the only one thinking that about this poem?
| 668 |
mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:36am |
re: #656 JammieWearingFool
Has the soaring oratory been chiseled in marble yet?
What soaring oratory?
| 669 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:40am |
re: #642 Occasional Reader
Hm, publicly-commissioned poetry... rarely good.
One hears Heinlein, somehow - "An incompetent whore."
| 670 |
RoughRider Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:41am |
re: #448 Nevergiveup
OBAMA FLUBS THE OATH... NERVES AS AMERICAN SWEARS IN 44...
Ha--Drudge calls em as he sees em.
I'm not one to usually defend Obama, but I'm sure it must have been uncomfortable with that Bible burning his left hand as he tried to recite the oath of office.
| 671 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:42am |
re: #641 Dianna
Not this blasted "poet"; she's dreadful!
Reminds me of the speaker at my graduation from the University of Washington. I finally had had enough and screamed "BULLSHIT".
| 672 |
Kreuzueber Halbmond Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:48am |
He did better in front of styrofoam columns.
| 674 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:49am |
re: #630 ryannon
Can anyone remember anything he said?
Why do I feel let down?
I came in halfway, I can't even remember anything from that point on. Empty promises all of it. This poet sucks ... is it a poem. Hell Buzz can do better in 10 sec.
| 675 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:49am |
I just got a box delivered to my office! Maybe it's my unicorn!
Oh wait, it's a sample of rubber.
| 676 |
apachegunner Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:51am |
ut oh, now we find out just who built america
| 677 |
mikeymom Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:52am |
re: #630 ryannon
i remember "bitter swill" and i like it! mikey likes it!
| 678 |
mrbassman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:53am |
I'm waiting for the interpretive hip-hop dance.
| 679 |
FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:55am |
re: #605 vxbush
Way too many metaphors. But I hope he is serious about passing freedom on to our children and our children's children.
It all depends on what the definition of "freedom" is.
| 680 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:56am |
This poem is awful and she keeps losing her place.
| 681 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:30:56am |
re: #662 Lincolntf
"Americans clinging to their bitter swill, with antipathy towards beers that are not like their own."
Did I hear that right?
Does somebody have a problem with Beck's dark?
| 683 |
DeafDog Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:04am |
| 684 |
Creeping Eruption Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:06am |
Poetry:
i like my body when it is with your
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like,, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big Love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you quite so new
-ee cummings
| 686 |
Beach Lover Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:10am |
well....all obvious remarks aside. I watched the speech with the TV on mute. If I was an African American, I'm sure I would have a justified sense of pride that our President is a black man. But, after that said, he is just plain wrong on most things for this country.
| 687 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:12am |
re: #656 JammieWearingFool
Has the soaring oratory been chiseled in marble yet?
No, but it will be in offered in the 6 DVD set commemorating the coronation.
| 688 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:13am |
It's done. He's President. Funny ...I feel the same.
| 690 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:15am |
Is this what it felt like when Caligula became emperor?
| 691 |
DisturbedEma Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:20am |
re: #601 rw in san diego
It'll be interesting to hear what the pundits have to say about this speech. I was disappointed.
I guess it will chalked up to 'the burden he must now assume" or "inspiring to the last word"
Either way, the era of "blame America for everything along with Israel" has begun. . .
shit
| 692 |
faraway Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:20am |
Michelle and her brother couldn't keep their eyes closed during the prayer. Can you imagine anyone from the Bush family peeking around?
| 693 |
Dahveed Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:25am |
re: #641 Dianna
Not this blasted "poet"; she's dreadful!
So far it's keeping with a theme. The Obama Administration will bore us to death over the next four years.
| 694 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:26am |
re: #653 Nevergiveup
Who?
Her last name's Alexander.
If this is a "Praise Song", I really want it to end!
| 695 |
Terp Mole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:26am |
U.S. & World Equity Indexes
(post inaugural speech)
S&P 500 -3.24%
NASDAQ -3.58%
DOW -2.40%
Canada -1.33%
Mexico -2.25%
Brazil -1.22%
Latin America -2.11%
| 696 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:27am |
What an embarrassment! Where's the Hook? Yank it..now...
| 697 |
vxbush Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:28am |
re: #671 MandyManners
Reminds me of the speaker at my graduation from the University of Washington. I finally had had enough and screamed "BULLSHIT".
Why does this not surprise me, Mandy? You didn't have a cluebat near at hand?
| 698 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:30am |
re: #649 MandyManners
WTF is this poem all about? How messed up we are but CBBHO is here to fix us?
It's intellectual MM - and a morality lecture
| 699 |
SagamoreGal Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:40am |
I'm getting shit-faced drunk tonight with Ayn Rand's ghost.
| 700 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:45am |
re: #654 Occasional Reader
Sorry, any poem that contains the word "boombox"...
Is this some sort of freefrom?
| 701 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:48am |
Touchy-feely beyond compare.
WHERE ARE THE UNICORNS?
| 702 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:51am |
re: #690 father_of_10
Is this what it felt like when Caligula became emperor?
Will Bob Guccione make the documentary?
| 703 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:53am |
re: #667 Random_Lizard
See Spot
See Spot Run
Run Spot RunAm I the only one thinking that about this poem?
That actually did make me Laugh Out Loud. Perfect.
| 704 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:31:56am |
re: #690 father_of_10
Is this what it felt like when Caligula became emperor?
No, it's what it felt like when Carter was elected.
| 706 |
Muadib Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:02am |
| 707 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:02am |
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
| 709 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:11am |
"love with no need to preempt grievance"
What the fuck does that mean exactly?
| 711 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:21am |
re: #633 apachegunner
I hear we must stop using things for comfort because the rest of the world hasn't got them. Thermostats at 62, lights filled with chemical hazards of mecury, drive less and walk more, spread out our wealth to the peoples of the world, quit living comfortably and start living more like the cave men lived, one with the earth. And now a stupid poem by someone I've never heard of.
dhimmi carter's SWEATERS
| 712 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:25am |
"love with no need to preempt grievance?"
WTF?
| 713 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:26am |
re: #637 Ward Cleaver
In other news today, Chrysler and FIAT are pairing up.
/not kidding
Saw it in the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. Not a bad pairing. Fiat has some decent small cars, and Chrysler has the larger vehicles.
| 715 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:35am |
Did the audience fall asleep yet. I'm about to.
| 717 |
mattm Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:38am |
WTF? Huh? This poitw is awful. Obama was better.
| 718 |
Jamie Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:38am |
| 719 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:42am |
re: #667 Random_Lizard
See Spot
See Spot Run
Run Spot RunAm I the only one thinking that about this poem?
No, you're not.
That was awful - I'm so relieved it's over!
| 720 |
theadmiral Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:44am |
re: #695 Terp Mole
It's only beginning. Wanna bet the Dow hovers around 6,000 by July 4?
| 721 |
Picayune Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:46am |
Re-post from last thread:
President BHO sworn in at 12:05 PM, ET !
Now...... Duck, due to bad timing, here comes bad luck and trouble, not good for any of us, so says the soothsayer (astrologer):
"In the end however, the people know they are also at the behest and mercy of those who lead them—a fact plainly stated in the Moon of this chart being positioned at 29 Scorpio, a position known as 'Void of Course'
which states that the issues being held in trust by the Moon go
unanswered and thus ultimately come to naught. This tells us that no
matter what the people go into this inauguration with, what they get
will not be exactly what they expect, hope or anticipate.
And what will they get? Well, if Barack Obama takes the Oath of Office
before 12:29 pm (EST), the Moon is still Void of Course, telling us
that all the wishes, needs and willingness of the people will go
through a period of disillusionment and feeling powerless before they
reformulate based on issues we don't yet know. If, however, Barack
Obama takes the Oath after 12:29 pm, the Moon will have moved into
Sagittarius, clearly indicating the inauguration of a new era, one
built on precepts of learning and knowing better. The details of that
administration will be determined by the exact time he takes the Oath,
so watch the clock."
See full article at: [Link: www.daykeeperjournal.com...]
Moon void of course, Mercury retrograde (bad), and big Solar eclipse next
week - all are inauspicious, to say the least. Best of luck, Obama.
BHO said this is "his Time." Looks like he blew his "timing" today, though.
FDR and Nancy Reagan paid very big attention to timing, as did the Free Masons, many of whom crafted our US Constitution.
Me, I am praying.
| 722 |
Tumulus11 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:46am |
'Praise song for each hand-lettered sign.
For the figuring it out around kitchen tables.'
. Can we hear more from Mr. Biden, instead?
| 723 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:47am |
re: #664 Honorary Yooper
Sometimes they're much longer. The longest one on record was given on a very chilly and wet March 3 by William Henry Harrison.
And isn't that mentioned as one of the possible reasons behind his death shortly thereafter?
| 725 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:52am |
re: #686 Beach Lover
well....all obvious remarks aside. I watched the speech with the TV on mute. If I was an African American, I'm sure I would have a justified sense of pride that our President is a black man. But, after that said, he is just plain wrong on most things for this country.
I don't get the impression that Thomas Sowell is proud - he said we would experience economic catastrope if Obama implements his plans.
| 726 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:53am |
re: #454 Ben Hur
Ben - if it was the same post as the one you put up on the prior thread, your link headline certainly appeared to be the opposite of what you just said.
Paul Belein, Brussels Journal and Vlaams Belang ought never to have been invited in the first place, but your post on the prior thread didn't indicate that and certainly Dianne West didn't say anything like that.
| 727 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:56am |
re: #707 Wishing
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
OMG. I think you're right.
| 728 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:57am |
re: #701 MandyManners
Touchy-feely beyond compare.
WHERE ARE THE UNICORNS?
they are in their new stables on the west lawn of the white house
| 729 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:57am |
re: #693 Dahveed
So far it's keeping with a theme. The Obama Administration will bore us to death over the next four years.
Oh, I hope sincerely that they ONLY bore us.
| 730 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:32:59am |
re: #664 Honorary Yooper
Sometimes they're much longer. The longest one on record was given on a very chilly and wet March 3 by William Henry Harrison.
It was so long he dropped dead from it.
| 731 |
pbird Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:04am |
re: #347 tfc3rid
I've actually never heard this guy speak... He is boring... What the hell do people fawn all over him for?
its hypnotism, really!
| 732 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:08am |
I despise this "built by slaves" horse-shit... yeah, the rest of us jerks have been sitting around on our tired asses our whole lives and nothing has been built in this country since 1865.
For cripes sake...
| 733 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:13am |
Now for the network commentary: Not since the Battle Of Agincourt have I heard such lofty prose.
For me Hannibal on Rome comes to mind, and Shakespeare could not with his wit compare. This is beyond the boundaries of even our limitless space and time manifold. Einstein would be stunned and awed.
Now for a commercial.
| 734 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:13am |
Obama's War of 1812 reference-- President James Madison, whose wife Dolley rolled up the oil portrait of George Washington as she fled the White House before it was torched by the British. Does Obama really think it has come to this?
In 1812, one of my ancestors raised a regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers to March to Washington to save it from the British. Too late, they diverted to Baltimore Harbor. The British fired rockets, and sent infantry by barge to surround the army. By the hand of G-d, the barges were driven off course by a strong wind and current, and landed miles from their intended destination.
Obama knows no such moments. He lacks the seasoning and temperament for this job.
| 735 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:23am |
| 736 |
america1 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:25am |
Obama is so far Left he Left America. God Help us All!
| 737 |
Ayatollah Ghilmeini Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:30am |
Hey not to complain but:
where's my bailout money?
why hasn't the stock market gone up 4000 points?
how come I still have a mortgage?
when can I stop paying my utility bills
will government pay to expand my garage for my flying car?
Well, I am waiting!
| 738 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:30am |
re: #699 SagamoreGal
why wait, start now, and avoid the traffic.
| 739 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:32am |
I'm gonna' get back to cleaning up from the plumbers. bbl
| 740 |
NoSubmission Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:33am |
re: #709 wahabicorridor
"love with no need to preempt grievance"
What the fuck does that mean exactly?
It means nothing.
| 741 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:35am |
that was not a long sermon by the one it just seemed that way.
| 742 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:40am |
This Rev. is the one most worth listening to, so far.
| 743 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:40am |
| 744 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:47am |
re: #707 Wishing
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
seriously? I thought it had to be exactly right.
| 745 |
slokat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:33:48am |
Here's the official Presidential Portrait POTUSBHO
For the wall, photoshop or dart board... whichever turns you on!
| 747 |
unreconstructed rebel Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:04am |
re: #709 wahabicorridor
"love with no need to preempt grievance"
What the fuck does that mean exactly?
Grievance trumps love?
| 748 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:12am |
This will go down as one of the most BORING inaugurations in history.
| 749 |
opnion Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:13am |
They're doing poetry? The best poetry always begins with, 'There once was a girl from Nantucket." Might be inappropriate here?
| 750 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:14am |
re: #707 Wishing
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
You're not serious?
Please, someone play it back and confirm.
| 753 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:17am |
re: #690 father_of_10
Is this what it felt like when Caligula became emperor?
There was more sex involved then...
| 754 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:17am |
Wow. That was a truly bad poem. I think even Obama was embarrassed he asked her to do it. Simply readful.
| 755 |
Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:22am |
re: #655 DistantThunder
Carter facilitated the installation of the Ayatollah - and we are still paying the price.
Er, as I recall, it was France who arranged for that spectacle. Carter just shrugged and ignored it, till the hostage thing started.
| 756 |
BGB! Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:28am |
I think we should all be mindfull to not become that thing that we have hated over the last eight years "the angry left", attacking Bush everytime he blinked. I no more wish Obama to fail anymore than Id wish Capt. Smith to jam the Titanic into an iceberg; mainly because I too am on the goodship America. It may be out of self preservation, but i dont want anyone to sink the ship while im on it.
| 757 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:31am |
re: #695 Terp Mole
U.S. & World Equity Indexes
(post inaugural speech)S&P 500 -3.24%
NASDAQ -3.58%
DOW -2.40%
Canada -1.33%
Mexico -2.25%
Brazil -1.22%
Latin America -2.11%
The market sure seems to love BHO as much as they did FDR.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
| 758 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:34am |
re: #704 Wyatt Earp
No, it's what it felt like when Carter was elected.
I voted for Ford. Carter wasn't my fault. Now we have BHO. Needed a HERO, but got a ZERO.
| 759 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:51am |
Holy hell, was that part omitted from the oath? Very scary ominous. Did the CJ not say it or did BO not repeat it after he said it?
| 760 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:34:53am |
| 761 |
Dianna Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:00am |
| 762 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:02am |
Edison invented the lightbulb
Newton came up with the three laws of motion
Plato wrote Timaeus.
Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence
Obama gave this speech.
| 763 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:07am |
This HAS TO BE THE FASTEST MOVING THREAD IN LGF HISTORY.
| 765 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:18am |
re: #499 DistantThunder
Ignore the suffering outside our borders:? WHAT? Bush has been recognized for all the aid he's provided to Africa by Africans! Not to mention bringing Democracy to Iran and trying to get Democracy to stick in Afghanistan.
That is just so much bullshit.
| 766 |
right Brain Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:29am |
re: #6 Steve Rogers
Thats why he won, he read his times well and delivered exactly what they wanted.
Don't forget President Obama ran for Congress, spoke as an intellectual law professor that he was, and lost by 50%. The worst margin of any contest. It was when he hit on his unification speech that he prevailed. He figured it out and we're just catching up.
| 767 |
nobamadada Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:30am |
I will refuse to recognize Obama as President and he will be regarded as # 44 to me
| 768 |
CommonCents Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:33am |
| 769 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:38am |
Heard that he sent his speech over to Doris Kearns Goodwin among others to see if the proper tone and message was there.
So I guess she said just repeat what you stated on the campaign trail so you won't be charged with plagerism of Lincoln and Kennedy and FDR....every historian is surely aware of what plagerism is, right?
This one will not be memorized by children in school....if there was a winning line, not sure what it would have been.
| 770 |
apachegunner Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:39am |
and so this? this is what we've come to? how can one be a proud american at this point in time. sick!
| 771 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:43am |
| 772 |
jorline Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:49am |
Mr. President...don't forget the 4,000 hero's who gave their lives lately so you could stand on that podium to take the "Oath Of Office".
Protect our Nation.
| 773 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:51am |
re: #723 tfc3rid
And isn't that mentioned as one of the possible reasons behind his death shortly thereafter?
Yes. WH Harrison apparently caught a cold that turned into pneumonia while giving the speach.
| 774 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:54am |
Did he almost just forget to say God Bless America?
| 775 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:35:59am |
Protect us from the influence of the rich?
TAKE A LOOK AROUND AT THE DEMOCRATS.
Oh for fucks sake
| 776 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:08am |
re: #753 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
There was more sex involved then...
that was just a movie . . . not that I watched it.
| 777 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:09am |
re: #707 Wishing
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
That's not part of the oath, and hasn't been... That's the Oath of Enlistment in the US Military.
| 778 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:18am |
re: #707 Wishing
Ok the part that was totally omitted from the oath is the part where he swears to protect us from all enemies domestic and foreign.
That was totally skipped.
/it's not part of the Presidential oath
| 779 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:22am |
re: #757 Honorary Yooper
The market sure seems to love BHO as much as they did FDR.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Rev. just said to "hold on" and I do think it's going to be a bumppy ride.,
| 780 |
fish Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:22am |
re: #655 DistantThunder
Carter facilitated the installation of the Ayatollah - and we are still paying the price.
Yes we are still paying the price. I said we survived Carter, not that it was easy or didnt have lasting effects. We will survive the Obama administration, it may hurt and take a while to heal afterward; but we will survive.
| 781 |
Ward Cleaver Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:25am |
re: #713 Honorary Yooper
Saw it in the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. Not a bad pairing. Fiat has some decent small cars, and Chrysler has the larger vehicles.
I'd like to see the 500. The Alfa Romeos (8C Competizione) are already coming.
| 782 |
Empire1 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:34am |
May the gods protect this country, 'cause it's for sure her new leaders won't!
| 784 |
gmsc Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:46am |
re: #11 Alouette
They're playing "G-d Save the Queen"
BTW, Alouette, tell your youngest son Happy Birthday for us!
| 785 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:48am |
The theme of Obama's inaugural speech (cue music): "Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again!"
| 786 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:36:51am |
re: #736 america1
Obama is so far Left he Left America. God Help us All!
He's the captain of the ship, I'm afraid. Will there be a mutiny?
| 787 |
mrbassman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:07am |
re: #707 Wishing
Good point. Obama had the abridged oath. Also left out the part about doing this without evasion.
| 789 |
OccamsRazor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:20am |
#16--
Dead nuts on.
I am sitting here getting my oil changed and they have CNN on. I can't focus on my work, it's so depressing to hear the BS, even in the background.
May God have mercy on us.
| 790 |
MJBrutus Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:29am |
re: #9 Haole
I think I'm gonna be sick now.
This bad poetry was the last straw. What a barf-making day.
| 794 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:39am |
OK, I'm taking back by praise for this guy.
| 795 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:42am |
re: #768 CommonCents
Fancy that. My companies websense has it blocked.
Hmm, It's probably a coincidence.
| 796 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:43am |
Oh my gosh - this is embarrassing too - people are laughing....
| 797 |
Vicious Babushka Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:46am |
re: #784 gmsc
BTW, Alouette, tell your youngest son Happy Birthday for us!
Thanks for remembering!
And, Happy Birthday to NY Nana!
| 798 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:51am |
re: #744 DistantThunder
seriously? I thought it had to be exactly right.
Nope, when they messed up the oath, they totally omitted the part where he swears to protect the US/constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Those words were never uttered.
| 799 |
gmsc Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:52am |
After the inauguration, the reaction of the 0bots was immediate:
| 800 |
Pyrocles Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:54am |
"love with no need to preempt grievance"
A shot at preemptive war? Love our enemies, and feel no need to attack them and create reasons for grievance?
re: #740 NoSubmission
It means nothing.
| 801 |
snowcrash Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:37:59am |
Title of poem should be Totally Random Thoughts.
| 802 |
sngnsgt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:04am |
re: #701 MandyManners
I dunno, all I see is Barry's pointed head.
| 803 |
subsailor68 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:08am |
For the first time in my life, I thought it important to send an e-mail to President Bush, thanking him for his service and telling him to hurry home here to Texas. The grief he endured from BDS afflicted leftists seemed to roll off his back, and for that I am grateful.
My wife said, you really can't understand President Bush unless you've had a chance to get to know Texans. She pointed out that men in Texas are tough, honest, chivalrous, and dedicated. She's right, and President Bush is all these things.
God bless him, God bless Mrs. Bush. Thank you both so much.
| 804 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:11am |
Ugh, the Facebook drool...
is in awe.
is watching OBAMA rock the world!
-- all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
is Grateful to be proud of my country again and blown away by Aretha.
| 805 |
jcbunga Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:13am |
As inaugural speeches go, this was better than most.
Now comes the substance........awaiting substance.
| 806 |
Picayune Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:14am |
re: #737 Ayatollah Ghilmeini
Hey not to complain but:
where's my bailout money?
why hasn't the stock market gone up 4000 points?
how come I still have a mortgage?
when can I stop paying my utility bills
will government pay to expand my garage for my flying car?Well, I am waiting!
Don't forget your free gas for your car!
| 807 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:17am |
re: #786 Archimedes
He's the captain of the ship, I'm afraid. Will there be a mutiny?
could not resist.
| 808 |
Wyatt Earp Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:18am |
re: #759 arizona9
Holy hell, was that part omitted from the oath? Very scary ominous. Did the CJ not say it or did BO not repeat it after he said it?
He flubbed the oath because he has no intention of protecting and defending the Constitution . . . unless it benefits his agenda.
| 809 |
FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:28am |
Why did he swear to protect and defend a document that at best he feels is "seriously flawed?" Did he really mean it?
| 810 |
J.S. Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:28am |
re: #761 Dianna
I believe there were rhymes (poor ones, but rhymes -- at least at the beginning).
| 811 |
ryannon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:34am |
That wasn't very good.
Could they try it again?
| 812 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:35am |
I'm wondering how demoralized the secret service folks are right now. Are they really wanting to take a bullet for the guy that dodges bullets for them?
| 813 |
rw in san diego Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:39am |
re: #794 rw in san diego
OK, I'm taking back by praise for this guy.
PIMF....my praise, not by praise.
| 814 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:46am |
I suspect poster #788 is no longer with us.
| 815 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:53am |
Damn, Sinky's FAST! I was just about to report that one ... and it DISAPPEARED!
| 816 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:57am |
'when white will embrace what is right'--the rev's prayer in the name of....!
| 817 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:59am |
| 818 |
ThinkRight Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:38:59am |
Charles is gonna delete and ban all who make over the top remarks
Obama should have been banned and blocked for his comments
| 819 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:02am |
re: #778 Killian Bundy
/it's not part of the Presidential oath
Well ok, but it sure was part of the Vice presidential oath
| 820 |
Lincolntf Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:07am |
re: #756 BGB!
Nobody (well, nobody with a brain) is going to become as hyperbolically hysterical as the anti-Bushies were, but it's the obligation of decent people to speak out against what they find to be offensive and ulitimately damaging to the nation. Everything I've seen from Obama makes me think that he's the least qualified, least able politician to ever wangle his way into the White House.
He'll get no pass from me, but I certainly won't stoop to the level of the Libs.
| 821 |
theadmiral Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:08am |
FWIW....here's the oath.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
| 822 |
Suzette Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:08am |
Happy Birthday NY Nana! :)
Many blessings and best wishes to you on this day!
| 823 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:19am |
Obama is 47 - I'm 48 - Pres. Bus had 15 years seniority on Obama and had been 2 term governor.
| 824 |
x-wing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:25am |
When white will embrace what is right. WTF
/this pastor is a racist. Sounded like Farrahkan .
| 825 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:32am |
re: #815 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Damn, Sinky's FAST! I was just about to report that one ... and it DISAPPEARED!
My typing's too fast ... Sinky = Stinky
| 826 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:32am |
re: #759 arizona9
Holy hell, was that part omitted from the oath? Very scary ominous. Did the CJ not say it or did BO not repeat it after he said it?
The "against all enemies" phrase is NOT part of the Presidential Oath of Office, folks. See Article II of the Constitution.
| 827 |
turn Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:34am |
| 828 |
faraway Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:39am |
re: #818 ThinkRight
Charles is gonna delete and ban all who make over the top remarks
Obama should have been banned and blocked for his comments
Can Charles ban Obama? What power.
| 829 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:41am |
I guess it's ok for Barry to sing the National Anthem now...
| 830 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:47am |
The best thing about the entire event. The Star Spangled Banner.
| 831 |
DoubleU Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:52am |
Stock markers is down 173 points! Where is that HISTORIC Obama rally?
| 832 |
opnion Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:55am |
BHO is calling for national sacrifice? This from a guy who fast tracked on Affirmative Action & never did an actual day of work in his life.
Where has his sacrifice been?
| 833 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:39:57am |
re: #799 gmsc
After the inauguration, the reaction of the 0bots was immediate:
You are one sick bastid
| 834 |
Monkey61 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:04am |
I'm reminded of that line in "The Curly Shuffle": Look at the Dow! Look at the Dow!
I am visiting the London office (I work for a news company, but not in the news department) and everyone is asking me about the speech, and am I excited.
To quote Paul Westerberg, "Biting my tongue at the top of my lungs."
| 835 |
jorline Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:05am |
Finishing prayer...
"When white will embrace what's right".
I feel good already.
| 836 |
Ojoe Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:17am |
OK Obama that was a good speech
Now let's all go forward together
I'm glad everyone can wave flags now
God bless this Country and grant you wisdom.
| 837 |
bulwrk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:27am |
Now comes the most sickening part of all, the msm fawning over what a magnificent transformational address that was perhaps the greatest in presidential history.
| 838 |
Cathypop Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:31am |
re: #767 nobamadada
I will refuse to recognize Obama as President and he will be regarded as # 44 to me
Good idea
| 839 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:40am |
re: #778 Killian Bundy
From your link: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Was the emphasised part included today?
| 840 |
Bubbaman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:44am |
There is a reason that Rick Warren recited the Shma. G-d help us.
| 841 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:45am |
re: #812 father_of_10
I'm wondering how demoralized the secret service folks are right now. Are they really wanting to take a bullet for the guy that dodges bullets for them?
They protect the office not the man.
| 842 |
Kragar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:40:56am |
re: #818 ThinkRight
Charles is gonna delete and ban all who make over the top remarks
Obama should have been banned and blocked for his comments
Doesnt that mean we can't mention that Stallone movie about the arm wrestling competions?
| 843 |
Golem Akbar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:02am |
Good speech. He is a fine orator. The teleprompter was on.
| 844 |
wahabicorridor Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:18am |
re: #793 Iron Fist
Can youu really see Warren Buffet saying "Raise my taxes!" and meaning it?
Don't be so sure. I couldn't understand why he supported the estate tax. Then I found out he owns insurance companies that sell to farmers whose families would lose the farm to estate taxes were it not for the insurance Buffet's company sold them.
| 846 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:24am |
WABC in New York has totally co-opted Limbaugh for the Inauguration-- no voiceovers from Rush at all.
The Fairness Doctrine, self imposed, silences all critics, and ABC is no exception.
| 847 |
mrbassman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:33am |
re: #778 Killian Bundy
Thanks for the link. Evidently the VP gets a different oath from the POTUS.
| 848 |
debutaunt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:39am |
re: #345 Opinionated
I don't want America remade.
Just spruced up a little.
A return to Capitalism would be nice.
| 850 |
jorline Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:41:54am |
The Dow has dropped 60 points in five minutes....down 207.
| 852 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:04am |
re: #839 realwest
From your link: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Was the emphasised part included today?
Yes sure was....however the oath of VP was different: it added the part of defending against all enemises foreign and domestic. (Biden oath)
| 853 |
Gretchen Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:17am |
My prayer for the next four years "Dear God, keep President Obama safe." He's not my choice, but better than President Biden. Just remember that when you get down about President Obama.
| 856 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:21am |
Oh thank goodness, it's done, and now we can hear Rush without Obama in the background.
| 857 |
faraway Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:29am |
Does anyone have a link to Rush today? Mine have all been taken over for some speeches in DC.
| 859 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:37am |
By God, we've elected the black Bob Dole.
| 860 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:43am |
To be honest, no speech could have lived up to the hype this event was getting.
Griping aside, Americans should be proud of their great country today. I hope & pray President Obama succeeds in his duty. He carries an awesome responsibility. Lord knows, he has a heck of a to-do list.
I can certainly understand the pride African-Americans feel today as America becomes only the second western nation with a black head of state. Good for you.
Seriously, congratulations.
| 861 |
SWPaul Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:46am |
Good luck, Obama....
I'm venturing outside to see the chaos.
| 862 |
BingoBunny Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:47am |
his call to end debate.. seems a bit dictatorial.. guess freedom of speech means always saying YES. I'm not a yes person, unless I agree. and so far I don't agree.
/it took a few years for even Hitler to feel safe in power, lets hope that we can change this president before he is. election 2012 start now.
save the marble we don't need it
| 863 |
arizona9 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:50am |
'The "against all enemies" phrase is NOT part of the Presidential Oath of Office, folks.'
Ah, thank you clearing that up.
| 864 |
tfc3rid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:42:58am |
re: #824 x-wing
When white will embrace what is right. WTF
/this pastor is a racist. Sounded like Farrahkan .
I must have missed that...
| 865 |
brookly red Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:01am |
re: #835 jorline
Finishing prayer...
I feel good already.
Oooooh, Rush is going to be all over that.
| 866 |
Ojoe Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:07am |
re: #809 FloridaAnole
That was politics; now things change. It is somewhat of a game, yes.
| 867 |
debutaunt Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:12am |
| 868 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:14am |
re: #832 opnion
Obama wants us to sacrifice, and he and his Congress will impose sacrifice upon us by law.
| 869 |
DoubleU Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:15am |
"Now is the time to come together"
You mean there was no other time for that?
| 870 |
happy_mama Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:18am |
sigh. Boring speech, bad poetry, and was that a prayer? I suppose they were trying to lull us into a stupor so we won't notice what changes are going to occur over the next 4 years (or is it five? I learned to count from Biden...)
| 871 |
yochanan Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:18am |
re: #840 Bubbaman
There is a reason that Rick Warren recited the Shma. G-d help us.
i bet some moonbat heads exploded when he mentioned Israel
| 872 |
3 wood Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:19am |
re: #764 taxfreekiller
3-wood
This guy is going to drive 1/2 of the country to drink, hard liquor,
what is the best whiskey company stock,,,, ?
Only whiskey will be able to numb this pain.
Brown-Forman profit rises, lifts outlook
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The recession hasn't slowed down Brown-Forman yet as brisk sales of whiskey and vodka helped the distiller on Friday report a healthy bump in fiscal second-quarter profit and lift its profit target for the year.
Before the start of trading, Brown-Forman said it earned $143 million, or 94 cents a share, on the period. That is up from $129 million, or 83 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago but slightly below the 96-cent average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet Research.
Revenue for the quarter came in at $935 million, up from $893 million, as growth in sales of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, Finlandia vodka and high-end offerings like Herradura tequila and Woodford Reserve bourbon offset a decline at Southern Comfort.
| 873 |
gymnast Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:24am |
And thus begins The Era of the Racialistic Presidency. It will be noted by historians as having preceded The Era of Great Civil Unrest.
| 874 |
Nevergiveup Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:31am |
| 875 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:51am |
Have a deal with better half.
If I wash kitchen floor, she will make me large Voda and OJ.....................Can't turn that down. Be back later.
| 876 |
Kreuzueber Halbmond Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:52am |
2010 midterms can't get here fast enough for me. Such ineptitude in leadership has this country never seen.
| 877 |
Golem Akbar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:56am |
re: #836 Ojoe
OK Obama that was a good speech
Now let's all go forward together
I'm glad everyone can wave flags now
God bless this Country and grant you wisdom.
Well said. It's going to be a tough job. I pray he is successful.
| 878 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:57am |
re: #857 faraway
Does anyone have a link to Rush today? Mine have all been taken over for some speeches in DC.
WABC Your text to link...
| 879 |
Honorary Yooper Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:43:59am |
re: #859 itellu3times
By God, we've elected the black Bob Dole.
More like a Wilson, FDR, Carter mix with the adoration the MSM showed for Clinton.
| 880 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:01am |
re: #767 nobamadada
I will refuse to recognize Obama as President and he will be regarded as # 44 to me
That's a silly attitude. Reminiscent of the liberals who drove around with bumper stickers claiming "Joshua Bartlett is MY President".
| 881 |
DistantThunder Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:07am |
re: #844 wahabicorridor
Don't be so sure. I couldn't understand why he supported the estate tax. Then I found out he owns insurance companies that sell to farmers whose families would lose the farm to estate taxes were it not for the insurance Buffet's company sold them.
re: #854 realwest
What are they laughing about, DT?!
That pastors references to all the other races...brown can sit down....red can get ahead...
| 882 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:09am |
If only the Oath of Office had been on the teleprompter...............
world of difference.
| 883 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:30am |
Well, inaugurations over.
/time to get back to the White House and sign some executive orders removing all Federal restrictions on abortion
| 884 |
lawhawk Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:30am |
So wait a moment. After claiming that 4 million might show for the election, what's AP reporting? More than 1 million appeared in DC for the inauguration.
More than a million people crowded the National Mall and the parade route along Pennsylvania Avenue for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The Associated Press estimate is based on crowd photographs and comparisons with past events.Crowds crammed into the nation's capital Tuesday, packing subway cars and filling the National Mall from the Capitol to the Washington Monument for the swearing-in of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president. Farther away at the Lincoln Memorial, smaller crowds surrounded the Reflecting Pool, watching the festivities on large TV screens.
For weeks, officials urged people to arrive early for the historic inauguration of the nation's first black president and throngs of revelers heeded that advice, arriving hours before daybreak.
Hope, change, and more of the same?
That's typical for any recent inauguration - not the hyped figures that they were throwing out just a few weeks ago.
| 885 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:35am |
re: #857 faraway
Does anyone have a link to Rush today? Mine have all been taken over for some speeches in DC.
click on the listen button. don't have to be a member to just listen.
| 886 |
Bubbaman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:37am |
re: #853 Gretchen
My prayer for the next four years "Dear God, keep President Obama safe." He's not my choice, but better than President Biden. Just remember that when you get down about President Obama.
What makes you so sure? In his first speech he chastized the American people, told the [bigoted word] terrorists that we are going to play footsie, and warned our allies (Israel) that they are going to be thrown under the bus. Blowhole Joe might be a breath of fresh air.
| 887 |
theadmiral Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:41am |
Funny that #44 just took an oath to 'preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution' when all he talks about is fundamental change, how we need a new Declaration of Independece and that the Constitution is a living document. Aren't these mutually exclusive?
| 888 |
faraway Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:53am |
| 889 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:44:59am |
re: #859 itellu3times
By God, we've elected the black Bob Dole.
Not this Bob Dole! You know it, I know it and the American people know it! :)
| 890 |
Killian Bundy Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:45:29am |
re: #839 realwest
From your link: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Was the emphasised part included today?
/what, do you think Roberts can't read?
| 891 |
jorline Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:45:35am |
| 892 |
father_of_10 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:45:35am |
re: #859 itellu3times
By God, we've elected the black Bob Dole.
No we didn't. Bob Dole served his country and actually accomplished something.
| 894 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:45:50am |
Okay, I've chosen hope over fear. Now what?
| 895 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:45:50am |
re: #656 JammieWearingFool
Has the soaring oratory been chiseled in marble yet?
The chiseling has always already begun.
| 898 |
Golem Akbar Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:46:04am |
re: #849 faraway
Now, can we begin the loyal opposition?
Not yet. Wait. It'll happen. Let's give him a chance, first. Not like the Dems did to Bush, even before he took office. Let's show them who has class.
| 899 |
BGB! Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:46:09am |
re: #820 Lincolntf
True. Im sure (if it hasnt happened already) that Obama will now be mugged by reality as he settles into Presidency.
| 900 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:46:28am |
CNN video caught an image of a white man holding up a sign that said,
"We Have Overcome"
Who is he speaking for?
| 901 |
FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:46:41am |
| 902 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:46:49am |
re: #794 rw in san diego
Hey rw - good for you - but how did you praise him in the first place? I mean he BOUGHT the election outright!
| 903 |
Ozark Mountain Daredevil Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:47:06am |
re: #840 Bubbaman
There is a reason that Rick Warren recited the Shma. G-d help us.
What is the Shma for those of us unfamiliar with it?
| 904 |
AuntAcid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:47:41am |
re: #764 taxfreekiller
If your needing a crutch, do not try to get around with just this weak walking cane.
3-wood
This guy is going to drive 1/2 of the country to drink, hard liquor,
what is the best whiskey company stock,,,, ?
Only whiskey will be able to numb this pain.
When things get dark, choose Maker's Mark.
| 905 |
Bubbaman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:48:19am |
re: #871 yochanan
i bet some moonbat heads exploded when he mentioned Israel
I was none to happy with Rick - the Christian secessionist thing - start with the Joos and end with Christian dogma. At least, I could co-opt something positive.
| 908 |
Archimedes Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:48:57am |
| 909 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:49:09am |
re: #892 father_of_10
No we didn't. Bob Dole served his country and actually accomplished something.
Well then, he sounded like he was channeling Bob Dole, and his bridge to the past, but a whole lot of the speech sounded very Bob Dole'ish, and very little of the speech was in any other vein.
I believe libtard heads all over American have already exploded.
Me, I'll wait and see if the actions at all match any part of this speech.
| 910 |
Nightwatch Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:50:09am |
Yes...a blank square of back-lit glowing monitor glow on such a......day of multiple ....PUFFS.......ya gotta know ....the HE has a boy..(oopps not P....C...girl) who presents the PUFFS after the nod from the MOST SECRET of service to the blue smoke circle...and the BLACK-BURY....rrrrrrrinnnnggggsss.
| 912 |
Picayune Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:51:23am |
And heresssssssssssssss Barack! New Whitehouse web page just up!
[Link: www.whitehouse.gov...]
| 915 |
claspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:52:41am |
Back from my meeting, did I miss anything important?
sorry.... j/k
| 917 |
Kenneth Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:53:20am |
re: #916 jwb7605
He hurt his back a few days ago moving out.
| 918 |
LGoPs Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:53:51am |
I've lost everybody's avatars, except for the ones that have a football only. I'm still logged in and just refreshed but still no avatars.
Are the hamsters getting overworked or is this a shot across the bow from the U.S.S. Fairness Doctrine.....
/
| 921 |
Bubbaman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:55:17am |
re: #903 Ozark Mountain Daredevil
What is the Shma for those of us unfamiliar with it?
The Shma or Shema is an anchor stone prayer in Judaism that acknowledges and affirms our inseparable relationship with the Creator. Ironically, it is also uttered in circumstances of great peril - as we are in now.
| 922 |
Ben G. Hazi Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:55:29am |
re: #664 Honorary Yooper
Sometimes they're much longer. The longest one on record was given on a very chilly and wet March 3 by William Henry Harrison.
And it killed him....
| 923 |
quickjustice Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:55:59am |
re: #300 Wyatt Earp
"Childish things" is a New Testament quote from St. Paul. When a man grows up, he puts away childish things. Does this mean Obama plans to grow up?
| 924 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:56:18am |
re: #877 Golem Akbar
and #836 Ojoe Too bad those fine sentiments were not shared by the LEFT with regards to President Bush.
You all need to remember that; We wish Obama success as that will mean America succeeds. Democrats - actually LEFTIST Democrats would NEVER have wished that for McCain had he won.
| 925 |
AuntAcid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:56:20am |
| 926 |
pbird Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:56:41am |
re: #638 x-wing
And now some fruity poet. NOISE NOISE
I'm not even listening and I hate it. Down with doggerel!
| 927 |
Bubbaman Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:58:01am |
re: #903 Ozark Mountain Daredevil
What is the Shma for those of us unfamiliar with it?
Here's another interpretation of the Shma (Shema)
| 928 |
FortunateSon Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:58:11am |
re: #713 Honorary Yooper
Should be an interesting pairing (Detroit area resident here).
Although when an Italian company is taking you over, you know that you must have some serious management issues. I can just picture everyone sitting around smoking cigarettes, drinking espresso on the assembly line...maybe they'll be hiring?
| 929 |
avanti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:58:47am |
re: #912 Picayune
And heresssssssssssssss Barack! New Whitehouse web page just up!
[Link: www.whitehouse.gov...]
Man, his geeks move fast on the net. I like the "contact us" link and the informal look of the page.
| 930 |
pbird Tue, Jan 20, 2009 9:59:27am |
re: #671 MandyManners
Reminds me of the speaker at my graduation from the University of Washington. I finally had had enough and screamed "BULLSHIT".
Wish I could have been there!
| 931 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:00:02am |
re: #904 AuntAcid
Nope - very few of us will be able to afford Makers Mark; - hell, can't even afford Jim Beam. Try Hiram Walker's 10 High.
| 932 |
avanti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:00:34am |
re: #923 quickjustice
"Childish things" is a New Testament quote from St. Paul. When a man grows up, he puts away childish things. Does this mean Obama plans to grow up?
He's referring to the partisan bickering that is the norm o both sides.
| 934 |
nikis-knight Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:00:43am |
Obama is proof that when they tell kids that anyone can grow up to be president, they mean it. Anyone, regardless of race, experience, or level of dangerous naivette.
Well, maybe not ugly people, but that's about the only disqualifier.
| 935 |
FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:00:56am |
Well, folks, I'm going up on the beach shortly and see if the ocean has begun to recede yet, like Mr. Obama promised during the campaign.
| 936 |
jcbunga Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:00:59am |
As a group--and we are a group at LGF--I hope we can avoid supplanting the whacko venom spewers we've witnessed and not replace BDS with ODS. I was very proud and relieved at how LGF commented on the news of Teddy Kennedy's ailment, to give just one example of how we have been different.
Now we have an opportunity to continue the commentary and fact checking that's been missing in the MSM, and made the evolution of this type of forum so remarkable.
I hope the country succeeds. With or without BO, it's not important how. In the end it's always the people who save the country's bacon, not the leaders.
Internet space like this can be the modern Federalist Papers or it can be a sewer. We can carry on or fold up the tent.
I prefer to carry on in the spirit of Publius. I hope this forum can continue to be a place to think, laugh, be serious and silly.
| 937 |
Nightwatch Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:01:02am |
I will drink ....................myself ..........to sleep 10 AM maybe an earthquake.................soon
| 939 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:02:49am |
re: #194 newsjunkie_ky
Rush said he botched the oath.
i think somehow he knows he shouldn't be there.
that it is above his pay grade.
| 940 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:02:54am |
re: #938 Iron Fist
That may be the understatement of the day!
| 941 |
3 wood Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:03:18am |
The MSM gushing is starting already.
Bill Cameron on WLS radio in Chicago just said it was a great speech.
| 943 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:04:35am |
re: #939 nyc redneck
Nah, Rush was wrong, he didn't botch the oath at all.
Lots of us, starting with Killian read the oath - y'all can look up thread or in Wiki. He got it right.
| 944 |
AuntAcid Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:04:59am |
re: #936 jcbunga
I prefer to carry on in the spirit of Publius. I hope this forum can continue to be a place to think, laugh, be serious and silly.
E Prius Rectum
| 946 |
claspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:06:32am |
re: #941 3 wood
That went right past me wood.... I'm numb. Mich City here.
| 947 |
realwest Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:06:56am |
re: #936 jcbunga
What is ODS? I don't mean the initials, but is it ODS to point out how Bush was criticized for spending $40 million at the 2004 inaugaral but no one said boo about Obama spending $170 million?
Cause if you mean we can't point out discriminatory conduct like that, I'm not on board with you.
| 948 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:07:10am |
| 949 |
sandspur Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:07:15am |
| 950 |
saberry0530 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:07:47am |
re: #654 Occasional Reader
Sorry, any poem that contains the word "boombox"...
"Shop smart, shop "S" Mart"
| 953 |
3 wood Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:10:41am |
re: #938 Iron Fist
This may mark the end of the Noble Experiment that was the Republic of the United States. Maybe not, though. We're just going to have to hang on and ride. It's going to be a bumpy four years.
Get ready for big government to solve your problems.
| 954 |
Texas Heathen Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:11:42am |
Headline on Drudge.
OBAMA AIMS TO BUCK UP NATION...
Looks like Drudge had typo there.
OBAMA AIMS TO F*CK UP NATION...
There ya go matt.. I fixed it fer ya.
| 955 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:11:57am |
re: #832 opnion
BHO is calling for national sacrifice? This from a guy who fast tracked on Affirmative Action & never did an actual day of work in his life.
Where has his sacrifice been?
stalin liked it when people sacrificed too.
fck his call for sacrifice. americans should be REWARDED for their initiative and hard work. the gov't . should "sacrifice" and leave us alone.
| 956 |
smokefire Tue, Jan 20, 2009 10:12:46am |
re: #875 smokefire
Have a deal with better half.
If I wash kitchen floor, she will make me large Voda and OJ.....................Can't turn that down. Be back later.
...............Ok floor done, now time for therapy session........................No not that kind.
Physical therapy for injured arm.
Later.
| 957 |
el2995 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 11:01:44am |
From Drudge Report -
Benediction at Obama 's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: '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 in back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...
Isn't that a little bit exclusionary? How about adding ‘…and when the yellow can say, “Heh-roe”, and when the gay can have marriage their way...'?
| 958 |
Picayune Tue, Jan 20, 2009 11:32:12am |
re: #816 newsjunkie_ky
'when white will embrace what is right'--the rev's prayer in the name of....!
Rush jumped on this quick, stating in effect that the Rev has the (audacity?) to state this - just minutes after the first African-American is sworn in as POTUS, having being voted in by white voters, in the main.
Nonstop grievance, for evah! Gee, no racist statement here folks, move on along.
| 959 |
jcbunga Tue, Jan 20, 2009 11:37:40am |
re: #947 realwest
What is ODS? I don't mean the initials, but is it ODS to point out how Bush was criticized for spending $40 million at the 2004 inaugaral but no one said boo about Obama spending $170 million?
Cause if you mean we can't point out discriminatory conduct like that, I'm not on board with you.
That's a great and valid criticism.
I'm saying don't become the KOS of the next 4 years.
There will be plenty of valid criticisms to make.
If you're elevating BDS to the status of legitimate criticism, I'm not on board with you. Those freaks are nuts.
| 960 |
avspatti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 5:57:32pm |
re: #261 Who Watches the Watchmen?
Did he scratch his face with his middle finger?
Come on . . . be fair.
| 961 |
avspatti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 6:06:55pm |
| 962 |
avspatti Tue, Jan 20, 2009 6:50:42pm |
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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