{"id":13329,"date":"2009-01-20T11:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/20\/inauguration.html"},"modified":"2009-01-20T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T18:06:36","slug":"inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/inauguration.html","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Had a chance to watch the Inauguration from home (working furiously most of the time), and take, of course, a picture. More random (and non-sequential) thoughts.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cute kids!<\/li>\n
  2. CSPAN is too much fun. Never has it been more interesting to watch people standing around and chatting. On the other hand, sometimes it was annoying when the sound system was picking up an announcement from outside while the cameras were shooting a different group inside — e.g., hearing the announcement for Biden’s kids while watching Obama’s (cute!) kids.<\/li>\n
  3. Great music between the acts.<\/li>\n
  4. I can’t wait for the Wingnuts to parse the stumbling over Obama’s oath of office (both Obama and Roberts) to somehow prove he never took the oath and therefore is not president.<\/li>\n
  5. Great inaugural speech. Powerful. Need to see the text; I strongly suspect there are quotables from it.<\/li>\n
  6. Rev. Warren did a decent, if long, job of his invocation. I thought the Lord’s Prayer was a bit much — not any more objectionable per se (and there are elements of it that are fine), but as strongly a sectarian prayer as one could come up with short of the Nicene Creed.<\/li>\n
  7. Cute kids — on boxes!<\/li>\n
  8. Always interesting watching the interplay between the Presidents and their Families, as well as the protocols of the announcements.<\/li>\n
  9. Bush, inside heading for the platform, looked a bit stunned. Obama almost looked dreamily relaxed.<\/li>\n
  10. Amazing shots of the mall and the humanity there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Amazing history. Glad I watched — and glad I DVRed it for Margie and Kitten tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Had a chance to watch the Inauguration from home (working furiously most of the time), and take, of course, a picture. More random (and non-sequential) thoughts. Cute kids! 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