Inaugural Address Open Thread

I'm excited (4.00 / 2)

Both to say goodbye to the disastrous Bush administration and to welcome in the Obama administration.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 16:31:55 PM UTC

Cheney really does like Mr. Potter (4.00 / 1)

from It's a Wonderful Life.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 16:36:14 PM UTC

Aretha brings it! (0.00 / 0)

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 16:55:25 PM UTC

Hats off to Aretha! (4.00 / 2)

I got back into the room just before she sang.

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 17:10:54 PM UTC

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a good time.... (0.00 / 0)

....to enter the room.. one minute it was Rick Warren, the next it's the QUEEN OF SOUL!

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 21:20:29 PM UTC

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new White House website (4.00 / 1)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

with a blog even.  :)


Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 17:33:10 PM UTC

Re: WhiteHouse.gov (4.00 / 3)

Oh man, this is beautiful.  Blue State Digital does some really amazing work.

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by: Scott Shields @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 17:44:07 PM UTC

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What to add? (4.00 / 3)

It's a beautiful day.

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by: Jeff Gardner @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 18:14:28 PM UTC

I just spent the day (4.00 / 2)

with many of my friends in Englewood in the packed BergenPAC, cheering and weeping with joy and hugging friends from all over the County.  It was the most perfect place to be.  I felt like I was right there in DC.  But warm.  

The most beautiful snowfall I can remember was the icing on the cake and the clear sunshine on the smiling faces of neighbors waiting happily in line before the event seemed like a divine comment on the significance of the events of this day.

President Obama.  I love the sound of that.  President Obama :)

One Vote.  Yours.  It really does matter.

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by: carolh @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 19:35:56 PM UTC

Excitement (4.00 / 1)

I missed the actual moment- was chaperoning a group of 5th graders on a field trip to TCNJ. On the way back, however, we walked through the student center, which had several TVs showing Bush leaving, and I couldn't resist grabbing my kid's arm and whispering excitedlyy "Look! He's gone! He's gone!"

The school taped President Obama's speech and showed it to the kids when they got back.

Oh, I do love the sound of that- "President Obama."  

-Sharon GR

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by: Sharon GR @ Wed Jan 21, 2009 at 13:42:32 PM UTC