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

noonki - they were so little for gum!!!!

Loved Rev's speech and obviously Obama's. Wow, what a glam event!

And in the UK, what would we get at an event like this? Gordon Brown with Girls Allowed singing, Dizzy Rascal the poet

Buda - there was a woman saying the lord's prayer - had to stop to chew!

I lolled at the Lord's Prayer Lady - she basically stopped praying to hack up a bit of gum and chomp away - how embarassing

I have really enjoyed watching this. I will remember it. forever

Oh Dubya is leaving for the last time, awww I hope the door doesn't smack him on the way out.

I will remember the kids saying I WANT TO WATCH DRAGON TALES MUUUUUM MUUUUUUUUUM

The end of the real words to that poem were originally racist: 'if you're white, you're all right', MQ.

It is a bit like a wedding now, everyone's standing around thinking what now and when do we get the buffet.

ta-ta dubya, get on your helicopter

I mean that it was a subversion of an existing racist chant 'If you're brown, get out of town' etc.

the woman chewing gum looked as though she was saying the prayer, but I think it was just her jaws going - the camera turned away from her sharpish !

Dubya might try to leave by the wrong door

another ignorant question

what is the flag flying that is like the american flag but the stars are in a circle instead of dotted around

Bye Bye Bush, it makes me think about that woman on the news a few years ago saying 'The only Bush I trust is my own' LOL

Off goes the helicopter. Ding dong, the witch is dead!

"I get your point, but I think it was a reference to a specific piece of history."

yes and i can see it's relevance in realtion to that chapter of history.i suppose it was the beginning of the rhymes where he said "we can look forward to a future" and then painted all the other races as dynamic and progressive and white peole as oppressive and archaic. as i said i may well be over-sensitive it just seems that for a presidency which is supposed to be all about inclusion and hope, it sounded to me like a quick way to alienate a lot of people and also giving ammo to people who vehemently oppose his presidency. i.e. it could lend to the kind of argument you hear all the time from a certain kind of people "can you imagine a white president starting his term under a prayer saying they hoped that in the future black people would "act right"?

"The end of the real words to that poem were originally racist: 'if you're white, you're all right', MQ"

thanks did not know that.
surely the revised one is still racist although maybe not as abhorrent as the original.

the helicopter made me cry laughing.

Apparently now the Obama's have 10 balls to attend, held in their honour, in 1 night

I'm so glad Cheney hurt himself yesterday

Did anybody watch the CNN feed?

When dubya was due to come down the steps before Obama was sworn in the camera panned onto him backstage. He reached out to shake the hand of a lady in a red jumper wearing a headset.

Cue watching him walking down the steps, and pan back to the lady in the red jumper wiping her hand down her skirt

LOL i saw George shake her hand, missed her wiping it though. HAHA