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 am listening on Radio Four. He's in!!!!!

YAY

Aww his wife looked sooo proud

OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA

Oh, I'm teary now HURRRAAAYYY!!!

look how proud michelle is, what love!!

Yes, we can!

Oh bless him!

The best always fluff their lines.

Fuck me that long shot to the white house was incredible

Bless, He looked really nervous!!

Polite claps for Dubya!

George W looks like he would rather be watching CBeebies too

You can see his breath, he must be freezing.

ah that was fab - I got teary - Yo Yo Ma looked as though he was enjoying himself !

Isn't it great that this speech is happening the day after MLK day? How fucking brilliant.

i thought they said it was the national anthem too

i wonder how many people are there?

It is fucking brilliant So pleased I am not the only one blubbing away here!

DS2 said "Oh my god look at all the people going all the way back to "that" (his word) monument, you don't get them all going down downing street like that". he's just turned 9!

they said there are 600,000 residents of DC and they estimated that there was 7x that number in the crowd!

oh I am so glad I am not the only one weeping.
what a day

They did penelope

I'm still teary

DD is bewildered as to why I am making her sit down and watch this, and wtf I am blubbing