glorious day.
 

so long mr president.. sooo long. :rtfm:

Yep, so long Mr. Bush :kewl: hello America, it's ours again (I hope).

Abe would be happy and MLK did not die in vain.

This is a historic day for the USA and the world.

Good Luck to the incoming.

Thanks to the outgoing.

Jeb Bush 2012!!! SIKE

Flap, that makes me chuckle, you do know that despite an extremely unpopular republican president and a lame republican candidate, Obama only won by 3% of the popular vote. Not so sure that your comment that America is "ours" again is a reality.

He actually won by a 7.2% margin
52.9% - 45.7% = 7.2%

I discounted for illegal immigrants and dead people....:rotf3:

I can't wait for Obama to be sworn in so I can flip and start blaming him for everything. Been watching Hannity to brush up on my technique.

You had 8 years to brush up on the technique. There were plenty of examples all around you.

I'm in!

Lets start with a projected $170-$200 million coronation.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inaug...6665946&page=1

We are bitching about CEO'S flying to hearings in private planes, yet the man to get us out of this mess throws himself a week long party? I just thought change would look different... he spent roughly $40 million more than Bush & Clinton.

Wouldn't change have been a scaled down ceremony and asking the private investors to donate the overage to the poor or throw it towards our deficit? A little over the top no?

Think of it as an Economic Stimulus Package....its going out to the businesses isn't it :hee:

Wasn't his first campaign promise to bring the troops home???? The clock starts now.......

Followed closely by his tax cuts. :jester:

I think the cost is a bit excessive, but it also appears they're trying to provide for the giagantic crowds. Bush and Clinton didn't have this kind of following.

A significant amount of the additional cost can be attributed to added security.

Two major differences between Obama and Bush or Clinton:
-Nowhere near 2 million people for their addresses
-They weren't black

Unfortunately, even in 2009, just being black makes it significantly more dangerous for him to stand outside.

Technically, Obama's bi-racial, although blacks identify with him as one of their own. His mom was white.

I agree with the security. What could possibly damage this country's image right now, more than a secutity incident at the inauguration? Today say's a lot about how far the country has come as far as race relations and tolerance, but there's still a long way to go.

Absolutely right. But, turn on the news and "today is a historic as the first African-American President is inaugurated."

While an educated person like many on this board understand the difference, I highly doubt someone that dislikes Obama for being black would say "oh, since he has some white in him, I guess he's ok."

Hell, my roommate's girlfriend said to me just a few weeks ago "well, Obama *is* a Muslim so I can see why some people are upset." Even in this day of the internet, some people's blatant ignorance is astounding to me.

You're right. He's the very definition of "African American". I did see on the MSN homepage this morning that he was being referred to as "black" though. I guess I am just amused that he's every bit as much white as black and he's really only referred to as black by most people.

If you saw him on the street and didn't know him, would you say to yourself that he's black, white or bi-racial?

:deadhorse::deadhorse::deadhorse:

Don't forget the new Presidental Battlewagon, they made a bunch of them at several million each

I'd just say to myself that he's a human being. I wasn't raised to notice skin color on people.

And Bush rode around in a Yugo?

No he didn't and I didn't say that.

Not quite....:hihi:

Cool...they finally took the training wheels off for him :kewl:

I wonder if he's got a bubblegum card stuck in the spokes so it goes Vrooomm Vrooomm

Their followers actually had jobs to be at.

And can't stand on a Segway

That is the best response ever in the political forums! :lama:

:hihi:

Where's the rod rack?

But you've thought enough about it to say that He's the very definition of "African American". :huh:

in more ways than 1.

The closet politico speaks.....:laugha:

not everyone is sharing the optomism...

The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake Wall Street from its dejection over the banking industry's growing problems. After hearing the new president's inaugural address Tuesday, investors went back to unloading stocks, sending the major indexes down more than 3 percent and the Dow Jones industrials down more than 300 points. Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange paused at times to watch the inauguration ceremony and Obama's remarks, but the transition of power didn't erase investors' intensifying concerns about the struggling economy.

yugo Bush

Statements like yours just give you less credibility.

Stocks were down based on concern about banks/earnings. In fact, the last part of the sentence seemed to indicate that investors were in fact optomistic but were concerned about the struggling economy Obama is stuck with.

uhhhh, ok Paul, does this help my credibility,,,,,I clearly said some were less optomistic, is that not a fact?

It was the Dow's worst Inauguration Day performance in its 113-year history. Stocks fell to their lowest level in two months as fears about the banking system overpowered President Barack Obama's speech about hope

Jimmy, I don't know you from Adam, except what I read here. And while I try to respect another's opinions, I have to wonder if you just shoot from the hip on all things in your life...

Yesterday's performance in the Dow Jones Industrials Average was not a gauge of what the incoming administration means. It was a direct result of a major Boston bank, State Street, revealing that they had not marked to market many of their portfolios, and would be reducing net assets by billions.... (criminal in my eyes, but who cares what I think) This revelation by what was previously seen as a safe bank, sent new shock waves through the bailout ridden banking industry. State Street got cut in half. Other banks were sold off. That was the simple big story of the investment day. The markets don't care where they end up in the history of inauguration days, nor do they take time off for the pomp and celebration. To say that yesterday's market performance had anything to do with the change in Washington, or the message Obama is sending, is truly an uneducated, ill-informed statement.

my point was that - not everyone shares the optimism. It was the FIRST TIME IN 113 YEARS THAT THE DOW WENT DOWN ON INNAUGRATION DAY.

It made headelines to that FACT. I shared the fact. I made ZERO commentary other than Obamas speech did not change the markets. It was noted MANY, MANY times that when Bush spoke, the markets went down, I guess I can't say that about Obama......


so NF, please tell me I voiced "my opinion"? You are INCORRECTLY interpeting my posts that Obama made the markets go down. that was not my point at all.