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Originally Posted by GodNickSatan
Now be honest. How many of you only watched the inauguration to see if he got shot?
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Christ, what kind of sick-minded person are you?
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Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y
Did you cry MMM?
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I did not. I am also lucky enough to have been a member of the race that has been the face of the first 43 presidents of the United States, so I can understand why people would be moved be seeing number 44 be a color and heritage closer to theirs. Especially after a man that made nothing but backwards progress in so many areas.
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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
The progress hasn't been entirely good. 100 years ago normal citizens were welcome to visit the White House, and families often held picnics on the lawn. Presidents and politicians were people like everyone else in America.
Nowadays the White House is a fortress, and our "representatives" have become a class apart from normal Americans.
Obama's number 1 priority from this point onward will be geared toward his reelection campaign. Everything else, and I mean this honestly, will be secondary.
It's the same with all of them, both parties, senators and congressmen alike.
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That's a defeatist opinion. The definion of one. To think the political cultural doesn't and shouldn't change over time is naive. This election is the most significant and different election of my lifetime, for sure, and surely for a lot of people much older than I.
Things change and change quickly.
So you can say Obama is only worried about being reelected, about personal and selfish things all you want.
But this man, by his own words, was able to assemble almost 2 million people into the American capitol for the sole purpose of hearing him speak and seeing him take the highest office in the land.
In 44 changes of office that has never happened before. Nothing near that has ever happened before. That's not money or campaigns or advertising. That is people getting on buses and travelling hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to see a part of history being made in this country.
To deny its signifigance is to be putting on blinders to reality.