Stirring, hopeful and dignified.
Another historic moment to add to my long list.
Another historic moment to add to my long list.
Obama inauguration: Who's watching live?
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Treacle Toes
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From there:
Honey I know but today i am cutting through the chaff and celebrating a moment of wheat.
dilute micro
esse quam videri
God switched to China a few years ago. We thought if we elected Obama he'd come back to us.
Crispy
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He said that some Americans are non-believers. That's quite something!
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
It is indeed. There'll be people choking on their grits over that line.
Yeah I'm gonna enjoy all the conservative blogs/forums frothing at the mouth with anger and indignation at Huseeieiun OSama's DEVILISHE WORSDES.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
It would be fun to put that in an email and see how long it takes before someone sends it back to me as the absolute truth.
Now to the real matter of the day, YW How did your date go and did you get a little cooch activity?
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Did my ears deceive me, I heard all the other options but didn't remember him mentioning Xtians ..
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
He mentioned them first.
Ooh, sordid gossip count me in.
Hang one Hussein in I-raq, and another one pops up as the President of the USA.
It's like a global game of whack a mole.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers".
And he did say it was their God-given right, etc.
But for an American president in an inauguration speech to acknowledge that some Americans are non-believers is actually quite a step.
I don't expect much from him, it has to be said, but credit where credit is due.
Saw the Obama speech via BBC news web at work. Historic day. I was in Trafalgar Square when Mandela was released. If I had said then there would be a black president of US - people would think I was mad.
Yes the world is in a deep crisis and Obama may not have all the answers but given the gloom it is good to have some hope - even for one day.
Yes the world is in a deep crisis and Obama may not have all the answers but given the gloom it is good to have some hope - even for one day.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Obama only need to deliver a tenth of the change he has talked about, and it will be enough for me to turn my cynicism dial down one notch. Which would be timely. Because although there is something naive, vulgar and dangerous in the ease with which many Americans can suspend their disbelief so easily, hope and belief can also achieve great things.
Our cynicism is tremendously useful many times, but I think there will be so many genuine hardships to moan about in the years to come, that we might benefit from just a teensy bit more positive belief. Too much faith is bad, but no faith at all brings its own dangers.
So after 8 years of cynicism overload due to the smirk's reign of shame, I am looking forward to at least a few cameo appearances by hope. Given that the USA still rules the world for now, and that we do not have the power to change that, I need to hope that the USA will regain just a little sanity and respectability. I do not expect much, but despite my relatively low opinion of humanity, the last 8 Bush years were hard to take. Even I need some hope to cling to now and then. The war and misery wont end, the suffering will likely never be justified, but even having one big change to point to would be something, give some meaning to the horror, the horror.
Our cynicism is tremendously useful many times, but I think there will be so many genuine hardships to moan about in the years to come, that we might benefit from just a teensy bit more positive belief. Too much faith is bad, but no faith at all brings its own dangers.
So after 8 years of cynicism overload due to the smirk's reign of shame, I am looking forward to at least a few cameo appearances by hope. Given that the USA still rules the world for now, and that we do not have the power to change that, I need to hope that the USA will regain just a little sanity and respectability. I do not expect much, but despite my relatively low opinion of humanity, the last 8 Bush years were hard to take. Even I need some hope to cling to now and then. The war and misery wont end, the suffering will likely never be justified, but even having one big change to point to would be something, give some meaning to the horror, the horror.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
It's only 1:30 in the afternoon here. We have to wait a while yet.....
dilute micro
esse quam videri
I've been watching CNN (no choice where I am) and it's seriously like watching it as if it were The Simpsons news.
We've had spinning satelitle images from space of the "moment" we've had viewers sending images of the "moment" and the production of a 3D image of the "moment"
And all the while, multiple Kent Brockman's have had their fingers pressed to their ears saying things like "yes, yes, folks - we can now confirm that there are in fact round tables being used in the lunchoen. That's round tables folks."
Oh! it gets even more surreal...
One bug eyed reporter - the one covering 'Luncheon' - is now saying she just heard that Ted Kennedy has collapsed in the said lunchoen and looks like she might be quite literally pissing her pants on air at the prospect of having broken this story...
We've had spinning satelitle images from space of the "moment" we've had viewers sending images of the "moment" and the production of a 3D image of the "moment"
And all the while, multiple Kent Brockman's have had their fingers pressed to their ears saying things like "yes, yes, folks - we can now confirm that there are in fact round tables being used in the lunchoen. That's round tables folks."
Oh! it gets even more surreal
...One bug eyed reporter - the one covering 'Luncheon' - is now saying she just heard that Ted Kennedy has collapsed in the said lunchoen and looks like she might be quite literally pissing her pants on air at the prospect of having broken this story...
Treacle Toes
Time
Senator Ted Kennedy collapsed at the inaugural lunch...
Treacle Toes
Time
Kin'ellSenator Ted Kennedy collapsed at the inaugural lunch...
His speech at the DNC convention just days after he came out of hospital was incredibly moving. I hope he's okay.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I hope Ted Kennedy is OK.
It's his lizardly mind-control powers being unleashed!
Yeah attacking the oldest and weakest in the room so nobody suspects anything. That twickewy wascal.
Treacle Toes
Time
It's his lizardly mind-control powers being unleashed!
Over lunch!!!! He doesn't hang about does he?
It's his lizardly mind-control powers being unleashed!
It was Dick Cheney getting his final licks in.
Oh fuck it, I can't do CNN anymore.
They've now got an actual story in the midtst of all there air filling and they are doorstepping every poor bastard coming out of the lunch:
"what was President Obama's reaction to the tragic events that have just unfolded in the lunch?"
FUCK OFF!!!
I'm going over to a France2 now.
They've now got an actual story in the midtst of all there air filling and they are doorstepping every poor bastard coming out of the lunch:
"what was President Obama's reaction to the tragic events that have just unfolded in the lunch?"
FUCK OFF!!!
I'm going over to a France2 now.
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