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"I never thought it would come"
Tomorrow's news today -- the top of my story for tomorrow's paper:
UPDATE: Here's a link to the full story -- a rare treat in that you can bash me in the comments there as well as here.
The world changed in 28 seconds yesterday.
The epicenter of that change was atop the steps of the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, where Barack Obama took the oath of office as America’s 44th president yesterday — becoming the first black man to lead a a 232-year-old nation with racial unrest embedded in its very DNA.
But the raw force of the moment seemed to send tremors across Washington’s National Mall as American flags rippled like red, white and blue waves of grain amid more than 1.5 million citizens in a once-in-a-lifetime emotional civic outpouring.
And the aftershocks were felt around the world — from African villages where goats were slaughtered in honor of the 47-year-old son of a Kenyan immigrant, to isolated outposts across South America where workers were given time off to watch a historic moment thousands of miles away.
While yesterday may have been a moment in time for Obama and his family to finally move into the White House after a hard-fought election victory and eight contentious years of George W. Bush, it really was a day for the everyday people — of a nation, and a planet.
It was a day for folks like 77-year-old Ted Roberts, who watched police take down civil rights marchers with fire hoses in his native Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 but yesterday was handing out American flags to a large celebratory throng gathering at that city’s Boutwell Auditorium.
"I never thought it would come," he said of the day’s events.
It's long. so I'll post the rest tomorrow -- and then it's back to Cher quotations, ill-informed bashing of MVP-caliber athletes, seemingly endless posts about torture and rants about how conservative President Obama turned out to be.
---}}} ...and then it's back to Cher quotations, ill-informed bashing of MVP-caliber athletes, seemingly endless posts about torture and rants about how conservative President Obama turned out to be. (((--- Uh oh. If you leave out negative comments about Bush, Will, the Attytood Republican toadies may not carefully monitor and comment on each post daily. I suggest you keep those kinds of posts in your rotation also. LOL!— Talking point sleuth
TPS has a point. If you honestly report the problems that Obama will face, which we already know that few if any will go away soon, and where things go wrong in his efforts (and the Congress's efforts) to fix them, the right-wing toadies will be baffled and perhaps--and I certainly hope so--abandon you. Here is my idea. Spend more time on the Supreme Court, which for the next few years is apt to be on the wrong side of history as much as on the right. Even is Obama appoints decent justices, it is likely that the ones he can replace were decent to start with. Bush deliberately chose young so that his baleful influence would last far beyond his term. Kennedy is back and forth, so the Court is, too.
Comment removed.- An African man finds it meaningful that a black man of African descent gets elected president of the U.S. - and sloboat thinks it should be a source of ridicule. What would sloboat have left if he couldn't condescendingly insult people he considers to be his inferiors. Interesting, isn't it, that the Attytood Republican toadies are so bothered by Obama's popularity around the world. I guess having a president that is subject of ridicule and scorn is more compatible with their nasty disposition?— Talking point sleuth
- Will, et al - On a day of such import, find some related funny stuff here... http://mytabloids.wordpress.com Cheers! Pilt— piltdownman
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"...as Bush's Marine One helicopter soared past the White House en route to Texas." Nitpick: The helicopter is only Marine One when the POTUS is on board, Bush was no longer the POTUS at that point. The helicopter designation was, I think, Executive One.— jmc- Will, I think I missed this yesterday -- where was your posting of a chart of the DOW? It was down 332 points, in case you missed that. Since you chose to use the DOW rising on the day Obama was elected to support your positions, why not eat some crow and post about the DOW tanking yesterday?— jfar86
Is "the world changed in 28 seconds" line a DNC talking point for the day? Heard the same line on both the ABC nightly news and CNN yesterday. And as usual the line is inaccurate. The transition of power takes place instantaneously at 12 noon regardless of how long the actual taking of the oath last. I am, of course, very happy to learn that racism, bigotry, and hate no longer exist regardless of whether it happened at 12 noon or a few seconds later. I guess actually mixing people of different backgrounds makes it a little more difficult to govern but somehow we have made it through the last 232 years fairly well. Some mistakes, yes but mistakes made in pursuit of some pretty lofty goal set out for us by rich white guys 232 years ago. To those who felt left out I say "welcome" and sorry that you never felt welcome but there was always a seat at the table you just needed to claim it. Also glad that there will be no more contentiousness in America...ah but there's the rub. You see Will it is your job, along with ours, to question our leaders and if you just accept that everything is changed and better without any actual proof of the President changing things for the better you run the risk of becoming labeled a toady for the next 4 years by TPS.— bird11- Comment removed.
- jmc - not sure of the helicopter designation but Air Force One's designation yesterday for taking President Bush home to Texas was Special Air Mission 28000.— bird11
- Incoherent John Lewis? Actually, Jimbo, it appears that you understood him just fine. Seems that for some reason, you're obsessed about how he pronounces words. Not that there's anything even remotely racist about that. Of course not. Not even remotely racist.— Talking point sleuth
- ---}}} To those who felt left out I say "welcome" and sorry that you never felt welcome but there was always a seat at the table you just needed to claim it. {{{--- LOL! Well, of course, the table was in the slave's quarters, or after slavery was abolished up until some 50 years ago, in the kitchen (as long as you entered via the back entrance) - but really, we welcomed you. We certainly didn't mean for you to "feel" left out. LOL!— Talking point sleuth
- Bring on the valid criticisms, birdie.— Talking point sleuth
- finally a president with some brains.— chasing history
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