He bungled the oath, but nailed the speech. The superstitious and bitter will probably read a lot of ill omens in Obama’s stumbling over the oath, but Neil Armstrong blew his first line, too.
[EDIT - never mind, it was Justice Roberts who blew it. The Republican Party - screwing things up literally until the very end!]
It’s been a long eight years. It’s really nice to be an American again.
Special thanks to KTLK-AM here in SoCal, which forgot to kill the automatic switch from the syndicated Stephanie Miller show to the local inauguration coverage…and gave us a Sit ‘n Sleep commercial during Biden’s oath. I know, who could have foreseen any news coming down at 9:00 a.m. local time on January 20, 2009?
One of the things my dad mentioned during the campaign was the incredible emotion people of the Jim Crow era who never thought they would live to see a black person nominated, let alone win. The crowd shots backfired when the occasional person noticed they were on TV and started waving, of course, but when they got the right person….that was powerful.
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Roberts screwed up, not Obama: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/01/the-inuagural-o.html
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