Official Inauguration Day Thread

[djnemo65]

Originally Posted by saden1

Anyone else disappointed by Obama's speech? I thought it was uninspiring and said nothing we haven't heard before.

The expectations were pretty absurd. While no one knew exactly what they wanted to hear, they wanted to hear it and then immediately proclaim "That's even better than the Gettysburg Address."

As someone from Gettysburg, I can tell you that the people who heard the original (and there weren't many, a lot less than two million or whatever) didn't immediately turn to each other and proclaim, "we've just witnessed the greatest speech in American History!" I guess my point being we need some time for perspective.

I thought Obama's speech was solid, appropriately cognizant of the difficulty the country is facing, with just enough uplift to leave us not feeling hopeless.

I think if Obama goes onto be a great president, we'll go back and cherry pick lines from yesterday's speech and act like it was great and timeless all along. If he is mediocre, well, then his speech will fade into the ether like those of most of the presidents who came before him.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by saden1

Anyone else disappointed by Obama's speech? I thought it was uninspiring and said nothing we haven't heard before.

I thought it odd...my sister said the same thing.
In any case, the party for O has changed course and it all counts from here. Many promises made. We'll see how the fulfillment goes.
I for one am not an O'Bama advocate, but like Schneed and many more wish him success as I am an American first, and it will benefit me as well if he is successful

[MTK]

I thought it was a pretty good speech overall. Now it's time to get to work.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I thought it was a pretty good speech overall. Now it's time to get to work.

Work, I thought we could quit work and Obama would provide us shelter, food, health care and an education.

[757SkinsGirl]

I found this satelite image of the inaguration:

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/vi...ration2009.jpg


..."all the little ants are marching"

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by 757SkinsGirl

I found this satelite image of the inaguration:

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/vi...ration2009.jpg


..."all the little ants are marching"

That was cool! Two million people really don't take up much room considering.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by 757SkinsGirl

I found this satelite image of the inaguration:

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/vi...ration2009.jpg


..."all the little ants are marching"

It sure beats the measly 300,000 that 'W' drew the last time around.

Good song by the way.

[Trample the Elderly]

I hear he froze the pay of his staff and banned them from lobbying for the next five years. If he keeps that up I might start to like the blessed one. I don't think anyone can live up to the hype that everyone is entrusting him with. It's sad to see that they place so much trust in a politician and less so on themselves. I'll give him a shot though.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

I hear he froze the pay of his staff and banned them from lobbying for the next five years. If he keeps that up I might start to like the blessed one. I don't think anyone can live up to the hype that everyone is entrusting him with. It's sad to see that they place so much trust in a politician and less so on themselves. I'll give him a shot though.

Who is they?

[Trample the Elderly]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Who is they?

They being the people who were interviewed at the inaguration and said they could hear "God Speaking Through The Blessed One".

IE: The people that Jay Leno interviews on the street and think that Spain is in Asia and JFK won the Second World War against England. You know who they are. They're the educated people who know better than you and I. I'm just a bumpkin from hick-town. What would I know about latte's and climate change?

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

I hear he froze the pay of his staff and banned them from lobbying for the next five years. If he keeps that up I might start to like the blessed one. I don't think anyone can live up to the hype that everyone is entrusting him with. It's sad to see that they place so much trust in a politician and less so on themselves. I'll give him a shot though.

He froze the pay of people making $100,000 or more. Not sure about all the restrictions he put on lobbying on his staff but I do not believe those restrictions apply to congress and they are the ones that really have this problem. Also I think that this is only a pleadge he ask them to take but I don't think he could actually stop them from lobbying if they quit working on his staff and took up a job lobbying. As far as closing Gismo (spelling and stopping the trials of the detainees I feel his timing is way off. I feel he is passing a bad message to the ones who want to do us harm that he might be soft against the war on terror. I feel he should have waited and not done this as the first thing in office. I heard today that he has also put a hault to any bills and stuff to do with offshore drilling. I guess we will see.

[Miller101]

Originally Posted by firstdown

He froze the pay of people making $100,000 or more. Not sure about all the restrictions he put on lobbying on his staff but I do not believe those restrictions apply to congress and they are the ones that really have this problem. Also I think that this is only a pleadge he ask them to take but I don't think he could actually stop them from lobbying if they quit working on his staff and took up a job lobbying. As far as closing Gismo (spelling and stopping the trials of the detainees I feel his timing is way off. I feel he is passing a bad message to the ones who want to do us harm that he might be soft against the war on terror. I feel he should have waited and not done this as the first thing in office. I heard today that he has also put a hault to any bills and stuff to do with offshore drilling. I guess we will see.

The only one soft on the war on terror was Bush. Its still very early to judge how Obama is going to be. But, Bush was definetly soft on Terror. That man picked up a book and started to read when he was told his country was being attacked. Thats soft! Also, his military had Bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Afghanistan.................Bush pulls them back and lets the locals go get Bin Laden. And Bin Laden "slips through" then dissappears. If Bush was hard on Terror he would have told the locals to go screw themselves and ordered his military to go get Bin Laden. As if all of that wasn't enough, he then pulls his military out of Afghanistan and then puts them into Iraq. He just stopped the hard core search for Bin Laden and started a new war. A war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. He was very very soft on terror.

We'll see how Obama handles this. I do like, while he was campaigning, when he said that he was going to pull his troops out of Iraq and put them back into Afghanistan. That is a start! Hopefully, he'll follow through, come up with a plan, and catch that bastard!

[Schneed10]

I watched the speech and paid more attention to his demeanor and tone than I did to the words. His body language, facial expressions and tone of voice were very serious and sobering, speaking to the immense amount of work ahead of us. But at the same time he stood up with his shoulders back and chest out, you could tell he feels confident.

I voted for McCain and preferred his ideas to Obama's in many instances, but I'm of the mind that once the decision is made, it's time to fall in line. I'm behind him and rooting for him as I'm sure all of you are too, but I'm also willing to give his policies a chance. While I disagreed with a lot of it, the time for debating is passed, it's time for him to execute and I'm watching hopefully to see that it turns out well.

I was impressed with him and proud to have him as my president.

[Hog1]

Well........President O'Bama is in office. AND, I don't see one positive change, YET!
What's the hold up?
-Redskins fan

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Well........President O'Bama is in office. AND, I don't see one positive change, YET!
What's the hold up?
-Redskins fan

I disagree
one positive is that we didn't have any Bush Bashing today