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 thought that too, she looked a little too bulky up top, i expect they have kevlar(sp?) on

Probably...maybe she ordered a special thermal version!!

The covered viewing platform has quite a few empty seats now...everybody else must have given up and gone in out of the cold. I wonder how much longer she will need to stay to watch the end of the parade?

I would be needing the bathroom, a cup of tea and a nice chocolate biscuit by now!!

If it was anything other than my husband becoming pres of the US i would of faked a headache and thinned out for a cup of tea in bed by now.

LOL

Have to say that I am really impressed by how well the two little girls have done.
It must have been such a long day for them and completely life changing. With the added difficulty that their parents will not have been able to focus on them to support them through it all.

They are either two very well brought up girls or they have been bribed!!

LOL

Have to say that I am really impressed by how well the two little girls have done.
It must have been such a long day for them and completely life changing. With the added difficulty that their parents will not have been able to focus on them to support them through it all.

They are either two very well brought up girls or they have been bribed!!

haven't read the thread but just wanted to make it a matter of record that i tried to watch the inauguration speech but i couldn't hear a thing for my 18mo waving a toilet from the doll's house in my facing and incessantly shouting "toilet! toilet!" at me

when she's prime minister i will not fail to remind her of this incident at every possible opportunity.

His friends and family call him Barry

I heart Barack Obama and made my kids watch it today - they were interested

but Barry nooooooooo

Barry????

Jeez,that's put me right off.

bush is doing his boo hoo speech now

Barry????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7841492.stm

busy already!

I thought Bush acted with a great deal of grace through the handover. Nothing in his presidency became his as well as his leaving it.

My son keeps accidentally talking about the first half-white president, which gives a rather different perspective and made me realise what it would mean to ME as a white woman if nobody had ever been in charge of my country before now who had any of my racial characteristics. Interesting.

I wonder if anyone has yet complained that his daughters have had a day off school and it's setting a bad example to take children out! Somewhere on MN, someone probably has...

I've never seen Huw Edwards looking so happy. He normally looks like such a dour bastard when doing the news.

Yes--he looked very jolly. Must be some good parties going on.

I thought he looked frozen to death up on that roof !