Wise move. Likely, this is a final attempt by BushCo to take out a few last DFH bloggers.

Boxturtle (Marcy would be on the top of my hate list if I was BushCo)

Sorry for that awful expereince but glad you found a safe place to watch the festivities

Happy you made it out safely, enjoy the moment.

stay warm and safe. have a cupa hot choc.

And Metro closed down the Gallery Place metro stop after someone fell on the tracks and got hit by a train. I hope that person will be OK. These crowds do sound scary.

Why were people starting to collapse? I knew we needed some Chicago Police.

And let’s say a prayer of thanks Blago didn’t show up. (He didn’t, right?) Because that would be such a Blago thing to do.

I think a bunch of Chicago police did go.

There’s a report of a threat alert so I’d expect the police to be overwhelmed and heavy handed when dealing with the crowd.

Here comes Cheney.

Daley is whats missing then, Mayor Daley would have had a plan to handle the crowd if anyone could plan for a crowd this big.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA !!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO. Can’t wait to hear that “Hussein.”

Bush is acting all jolly. Yukking it up. He looks like an ass.

HERE COMES OBAMA!!!

I’m surprised he wasn’t booed.

For all who have migrated to this thread, that is cool. Just want to point out that i did an update to the last thread in honor of Marie Roget and included the video Si Si Puede. The video is perfect for today, you will love it. When you get a chance, check it out.

Yes!

My teevee picture is kind of dark. But, Biden’s teeth showed up.

Thank You bmaz

Credit where credit is due, Bush is at least publically being a good sport about things.

Boxturtle (Can’t believe there were no pardons. Waht are we missing?)

Can we get the whole crowd in the picture? Or will ee need satellite photos for that?

EW is the one to ask but later.

Everybody squeeze a little closer together so we can get everyone in.

LOL

Thank god almighty, at last, this hour has come!

I’m crying. You can hear the crowd below shouting his name

How did Feinstein get this honor?

Introduced as “Barrack H. Obama.” What happened to “Hussein?”

The poles might Shift then:)

Bush looks giddy. Is he high?

I suspect Satan,…or Python Spirits. I hear they worry Sarah Palin.

Rick Warren? Why Can’t the TV go blank now?

So, I notice that both the announcer and DiFi refused to say Obama’s middle name “Hussein”. Pretty cheap ass stuff from small people eh?

Good Question!

I am expecting a tantrum from him as he gets on the plane to Texaas

Warren comes through with a crappy prayer, pionging on his exclusive idea of god and stating the obvious. Robinson’s unaired prayer was head and shoulders better. Compare & contrast:

O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will…

Bless us with tears – for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS.

Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Bless us with discomfort – at the easy, simplistic “answers” we’ve preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future.

Bless us with patience – and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be “fixed” anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah.

Bless us with humility – open to understanding that our own needs must always be balanced with those of the world.

Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance – replacing it with a genuine respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in our diversity, we are stronger.

Bless us with compassion and generosity – remembering that every religion’s God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the human community, whether across town or across the world.

And God, we give you thanks for your child Barack, as he assumes the office of President of the United States.

Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln’s reconciling leadership style, President Kennedy’s ability to enlist our best efforts, and Dr. King’s dream of a nation for ALL the people.

Give him a quiet heart, for our Ship of State needs a steady, calm captain in these times.

Give him stirring words, for we will need to be inspired and motivated to make the personal and common sacrifices necessary to facing the challenges ahead.

Make him color-blind, reminding him of his own words that under his leadership, there will be neither red nor blue states, but the United States.

Help him remember his own oppression as a minority, drawing on that experience of discrimination, that he might seek to change the lives of those who are still its victims.

Give him the strength to find family time and privacy, and help him remember that even though he is president, a father only gets one shot at his daughters’ childhoods.

And please, God, keep him safe. We know we ask too much of our presidents, and we’re asking FAR too much of this one. We know the risk he and his wife are taking for all of us, and we implore you, O good and great God, to keep him safe. Hold him in the palm of your hand – that he might do the work we have called him to do, that he might find joy in this impossible calling, and that in the end, he might lead us as a nation to a place of integrity, prosperity and peace.

Amen

I agree. Robinson’s prayer is beautiful.

Had to take a phone call, missed Pastor Warren’s entire prayer.

Amen.

Aretha!!! And those crowds!!

The Lord is God
The Lord is One

Not the Lord is Our God Rev Warren

We have nothing in Common

It was a rambling mess ending with him reciting the Lord’s Prayer.

I had an extra glass of champagne last night when I realized that Libby hadn’t gotten pardoned.

Not Aretha’s best performance…..

Damm much better! Good Writing:)

I can’t believe an adult is about to take over. I was afraid Cheney might shoot someone in the face with his cane.

Biden used his middle initial instead of name. I sense a capitulation coming.

The Crowd would tear him apart.

We’re missing something. I think we’ve been punked, and just aren’t aware of it yet.

Boxturtle (Either that or I REALLY overestimated Bush. What’s dumber than a box of rocks?)

The Classic music is Great! Hope its on I tunes that and the u tube Marie Roget liked I got that bookmarked.

I keep thinking of Dr. Loveless’s Wheelchair from Wild Wild West.

Boxturtle (Everyone involved with that movie owes the original cast & crew an apology)

Man, those musicians have to be freezing. And, it’s hard to get your fingers to work at 15 degrees windchill…..

Hmmm place the Charlie Brown Theme song on top of the Classic piece it might make a good mix?

I missed it, why is Cheney in a wheelchair? Crushed in the race with Nat’l Archives to get to the 14 million missing emails? Attacked by angry pheasants?

Sour Grapes, anyone?

Boxturtle (Apologies for the Faux link)

Did Roberts just screw that up???

Badly, it seemed like….

“Our long national nightmare is over.”

Supposedly he hurt his back moving boxes? I think he was shredding WH documents to incriminating for anyone else to look at.

Impeach roberts.

Rule of Law, President Obama, Rule of Law…

Seconded.

I missed that How?

Word order. Should have been ” . . that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States . . ” He forgot “faithfully”, then tried to insert it after “states”. It temporarily flummoxed Obama a bit.

Not the point ;-))

“We are ready to lead once more.” Ouch! Bush gotta be wincing.

free at last …

Just saw a couple of shots of Chimpy, he looks like a guy who’s been on a coke binge since this last summer’s Olympic games.

Anybody notice the smell of burnt gunpowder? Not sure where it came from….

I’ve smelled brimstone everytime I passed near Cheney. Perhaps that’s it?

Boxturtle (Bush is hiding in his Happy Place)

I believe Robert’s screwed it up, he said too many words, ponctuation matters, and then he forgot some words, Almost President Obama looked at him, nodded for him to calm down, and finally, Roberts came out with the right words.

Bush and his hacks, heckuva job Roberts…

I haven’t been able to smell things for about three weeks

I blame george bush …

(wink)

Still pinching myself.

ponctuation matters

oh yeah

ever seen how the 16th amendment was ratified ???

spelling don’t count either

one problem I always encounter on the innertubes is my desire to spellcheck the Constitution

but I guess the spelling thing works for you, right …

The 21 gun salute at the end of the oath?

ever seen how the 16th amendment was ratified ???

To tell you the truth, i’ve never read the 16th… Even less in it’s original form.

What is pontuation?

That benediction rocked.

I probably should explain

if you examine the ratification process for the 16th amendment, you’ll find that no state actually ratified it

38 states ratified v38 various versions of the amendment, and the SCOTUS said “close enough”

so there are actually 39 different versions of the 16th amendment

punctuation for bridges?

An unword?

From the cannons firing the ceremonial barrage?

Bob in HI

ooops, 36 states, 37 versions

cut me some slack, I wrote about it 15 years ago, and I been Irishing up the coffee this morning

You’re excused. It’s a good morning for Irish coffee. However, might it not be even better for black coffee?

Look out Paraguay.

cut me some slack, I wrote about it 15 years ago, and I been Irishing up the coffee this morning

Hey, my ponctuation was me being a francophone for 49 years.

Hello EW!!!

Glad you are safe and warm. I was never a crowds person, no rock concerts, very boring. I learned years ago that the fire dept is more concerned with the physical safety of citizens than the police dept. It’s the difference between heading to the vice principal’s office vs the nurse’s room at school.

From Freep blowin up stuff!

The entire nation breathes a sigh of relief. Can’t you just feel it?

Sorry to hear of you challenges. As a resident of DC living on Capitol Hill, somehow though this event beat them all in terms of crowds, I found the event to be compelling from the point of view of the joyousness of the crowds and the security personnel. I joined in the event, finding myself near the Air and Space Museum. The crowd was approaching “crush” level and a cry broke out from a mother who had lost her son. Someone yelled to the mother what her child’s name was. She replied and the crowd (1000s) started calling the child’s name. within moments, the child was found and he was passed overhead to the mother.

Though I am not a fan of the local police (all 32 jurisdictions in DC that have some police authority), I will give them a pass today. This was their chance to really do their jobs and they did it pretty well.

Now if we can only get them to stop with the damn sirens…

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Hey, cool story. Nice pictures and blog there too. Please join us more often.

Cool pictures.

While watching the Bush helicopter depart I heard from others who did not ever get in to their ticketed spot on the Capitol Grounds that the problem was with the security infrastructure.

The generators failed which meant that the metal detectors were out. That the generators were able to be out of commission for two hours is a crying shame.