Obama's Inaguration

[MMM]

Originally Posted by CarleyGee

>.> We're bitter.

Originally Posted by CarleyGee

Fractions? lol.
Well then, how do I put this? I'm a fraction.
1/4 Native American 1/4 Italian 1/4 Egyptian 1/4 French

So you mean 1/4 of you is bitter, right?

[CarleyGee]

Originally Posted by MMM

So you mean 1/4 of you is bitter, right?

>.> You are correct.







lol.

[Sangetsu]

I agree that it was a good speech, I watched the inauguration live as it happened, which was 2am Tokyo time. The speech was bound to leave both extremes scratching their heads a little bit, as it alluded to continuing the war on terror, fighting communism (socialism), and repeating that Americans need to work hard, etc.

Anyone else notice that Michelle Obama dropped the Lincoln Bible as she was being seated? Good thing that it was in a protective case.

[GodNickSatan]

Now be honest. How many of you only watched the inauguration to see if he got shot?

[ivi0nk3y]

Originally Posted by MMM

A LOT of people were crying. He is a moving speaker.

Did you cry MMM?

Aw

[Sangetsu]

Originally Posted by MMM

You guys are young, so I wouldn't expect you to understand.

If you see the speech, he says "60 years ago, my father wouldn't have been served food in a Washington DC restaurant, and now his son has been asked to serve as the country's president." The point is not the color of his skin, but the PROGRESS this country has made.

I think it's great that you don't think it's a big deal that he is black. THAT is progress, too. But for your parents and grandparents it is a HUGE deal.

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.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by GodNickSatan

Now be honest. How many of you only watched the inauguration to see if he got shot?

Christ, what kind of sick-minded person are you?

Originally Posted by ivi0nk3y

Did you cry MMM?

Aw

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.

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.

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.

[noodle]

I saw the speech. I guess it was...an Obama speech. He definately knows how to touch his peoples' hearts.

Personally, I think it was a little OTT, and a little hollywood-aic (word surely doesn't exist. Help?). Probably has something to do with me feeling that America doesn't affect me in any way!

Anyway, I guess it's a good thing American's are excited, but hopefully they don't expect too much from one Man. Good luck to Obama and America. Very important few years ahead of you!

[fluffy0000]

Unfortunately this thread is not a 'cheeracracy' . Obama did not win that much by the popular vote see for yourself Nov 6,08'CNN Politics.Com WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago — or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.
“A downturn in the number and percentage of Republican voters going to the polls seemed to be the primary explanation for the lower than predicted turnout,” the report said. Compared to 2004, Republican turnout declined by 1.3 percentage points to 28.7 percent, while Democratic turnout increased by 2.6 points from 28.7 percent in 2004 to 31.3 percent in 2008.

If you would like to spread the notion that the presidential 2008' election was a watershed event at least check your facts and political culture since historians like Howard Zinn 'A peoples history of the United States' and Noam Choamsky 'Manufactoring Consent' among others completely argue otherwise.

[jewelpre]

Glad to hear the speech and nice to see the pic you posted. You must be lucky one to watch one.