Goodbye Dubya, here come the Barack and Michelle show...

[mrsbaldwin]

... and straight to the important stuff - she is wearing a dress by a Cuban American designer.

Switch on the telly right now and have a look at it all if you can

I made a big deal of talking to ds after school about how important this was and how excited and hopeful i was and why.

he sat through the whole thing with me!

no complaint.

I told him he'd remember when he was an old man, and i'd remember when i was an old woman.

I loved seeing the long pan shots, so many people in the cold.

aretha is a bit old, goddess though she is, for her voice to carry this off.

I thought his speech was brilliant...but as always with obama the oratory lacks passion for me...

but fuck that, I have such such immense hopes of him, and his speech indicates that he knows what they are and will deliver....lets see...

amazing day for the world.

I said that his speech was meh and I got a load of hecklers

shame they are all dying off - never mind snipers, they clearly need a health inspector

its minus 6 there jaysus

agree on the beeb progression to verbal incontinence policy

Teddy Kennedy is concscious now, i forgot he had brain cancer.

Not sure whats happening with Byrd though.

MP, I'm saying it a couple of hours after the event so I'm in the clear.

I was just sorry not to hear a single concrete commitment (to joining the Kyoto process, for example). I do SO hope he's not going to be another Blair. As Simon Hoggart says, there was a worrying lack of what used to be called 'doing' words.

I did cry, but mostly because I wanted my mother to see it. (She would probably have been even more cynical than me mind.)

But I wish him well and hope he does great things.

Byrd not that ill apparently

ok, saw it. and read this whole thread. ahhh! i know no real change will come anytime soon but hey, we got rid of bush.

i think that if bush has any idea of the magnitude of the shame he brought on the whole country he'll commit suicide. or die in a hunting accident'

god thanks for the licks ladies. i've had a rough old time online (and off) over the last couple of weeks so licking is most appreciated if slightly salivary.

I don't like the way there was a post interupting my licking about getting rid of bush

Sorry about rough time.

i can do patting just not on the head

see I read that without the word 'on'

I really need more sleep

My Country Tis of Thee is what Aretha sang. It is a sort of national anthem.

It amazes me that that dirge gets used for one National Anthem, let alone three (isn't it Lichtenstein's as well? Or perhaps Luxembourg? Anyway surely we can all agree that it stinks.)

It is an utter dirge, I agree

flippin heck that is an AWFUL lot of motor cycles in front of the presidents cars.

Policy, to be fair, he can't get into detailed policy in his inauguration speech.
This is showbiz at this stage.

That poem.
Fuck me.
What was with the weirdstaccato delivery?
That was a real put the kettle on/have a stretch/go fro a wee moment.

the poem was bad timing

big party/snog fest was really due there

New Labour did it well ackershally

who invited the bin men/hillbillies to the parade?????

I'll be glad when he gets in the White House. Too many people, i hope he doesn't get out and walk, it'll make me panicy.

Poem was a bit of a downer, wasn't it? The music was nice (they really cherrypicked their musicians, and they were racially/sexually diverse too! ) but that was before the Moment, and afterwards, nobody wants to hear poetry read badly.

I was sitting there beaming all over my face, a hair away from weeping, and taking photos of DS standing in front of the tv with Obama taking the vow behind him! Not great photos, but maybe he'll be interested when he's older.

DH made the very sensible suggestion that we toast the end of Dubya/new era with some fizzy, so I'm drinking sparkling chardonnay, and hoping that poor Michelle has regained some feeling below her knees!

god those secret service dudes must be crapping themselves now