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

damn x post bundle got there first

The applause for her was quite muted in comparison with what went before. People must have been a bit baffled by it.

even the first lady looks bored.

yes the Withiout conviction was a boy George joke

because Boy George is no longer a man without conviction

see, it's funny

Who are these people?

God is that a fab Louisiana accent? stabili-ty..

Why is Boy George relevant?

Am sat with my 8 and nearly 4 year old - they are mesmerised by it. Although they thought 'the man was a bit of a chatterbox'.

I was obviously the only one who got it.

Don't give up the day job

Because I said he was the same age as Boy George, but wearing a bit better

and unlike Boy George, Obama really was a man without conviction

(as in, a criminal conviction - do you see what I did there? it's a sort of pun)

I'm sitting far from the tv - he's so short I thought he was crying with his fists knuckling his eyes!

Did you see Obama girl Number 2 videoing? Adorable.

Okay forgive me for not even reading the boy george comment.

pity the fool

Err, I think when you have to go to great lengths to explain a joke, it probably means the joke wasn't very funny!

ha! this is what i called poetry. Amen! LOL

It makes the world seem more optimistic.

Do they do their first dance at this bit too?

Do you think mrs bush changed the bed sheets for them, or just couldn't be arsed as she was busy on momsnet?

They should have got Five Poofs and a Piano, they've dropped their rates dramatically recently I hear.

Well I was watching - couldn't get DS to - and I was judging. I had my MN judgy-judgy hat on.

Did you notice the gum chewing??? Was watching on Sky as people were coming in and notice a girl chewing gum - teen so not unusual. Then I noticed a 3/4 year old girl being carried by her Mum also chewing and then a boy who looked a bit younger and was being held by his dad resumably - just behind Michelle Obama - also chewing gum. He was about 3!!!!!

Momsnet tdwp

great speach by the rev joseph lowery. although the end left a slight sour taste in my mouth. for a time when people are trying to say that race should no longer matter and how brilliant it is to finally have a president who is of a different race to finish with "and the white will do right" seemed tasteless to me. am i being really over-sensitive, it jus seemed like he was saying racism is only a white issue when anyone who's been to america will know that isn't true.

oh gosh the anthem sent me off again wow

Buda but that is what made the USA great!