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Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US
Just before noon today, Eastern time, Barack Obama was sworn in before the US Capitol building as the 44th President of the United States (Whitehouse.gov has already been updated to reflect the new President), and offered an inaugural address which outlined some of the challenges that the country currently faces, both within the country's borders and abroad. Obama's election has been called "a civil rights triumph," and his candidacy has inspired perhaps the most visible political involvement of young voters of any candidate since John Kennedy. Here's your chance to discuss the newest occupant of the White House and what you'd like to see happen over the course of his presidency.
FUCK YEAH!
Well, yes, it was on TV... Now what? ...
1) Obama president
n) ???
n+1) profit
Here's to a new age of respect and mutual understanding with the rest of the world. May we all wake up quickly from the numbed daze of the past eight years and move forward.
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Woke up this morning and a high school classmate is President. I'm thankful I'm an underachiever, there's no way I could top that at next year's 30th reunion.
Hear hear!
Black people have too long been denied the disappointment white people have known for decades.
You cn haz it.
As the media orgasms all over itself.
welcome our new African American overlords.
Well, Roberts also had some recent problems understanding the text of the Fourth Amendment, so it's to be expected.
da weed!
#1 voted change.gov issue
I'll take those, thank you very much.
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Will this affect the date of Singularity? Is Obama pro-singularity? Anybody see him with a bluetooth headset :) ?
I'm excited about Obama's promise to issue free handguns with every tax refund check for year-2008 tax returns. He said he would just go ahead and mail them right to the tax-paying citizens. He also hinted that he would probably also include a copy of Aaron Russo's "America: Freedom to Fascism" with each check, as anyone paying a federal income tax is obviously ignorant to the fact that the tax is purely optional and actually supports terrorism.
I'm glad we have someone like Obama, who will fight for our gun rights, eliminate the federal reserve bank, and re-open the investigation on 9/11. Obama, you ROCK!
obama is a secret communist muslim!
What a relief; i thought he was an overt fundamentalist christian.
He acknowledged that nonbelievers are American citizens, and reaffirmed the separation of church/state and science.
He shoveled the snow off my driveway.
congratulations from Ireland, I watched the address and beside the all the religious stuff it was quite interesting and I hope Obama brings yee change, hes certainly has more charisma than the shower of wankers who ran my country into the ground lately
anyways to stop ranting, well done, hope the door doesnt hit Bush on his way out
Stop trolling. We're all lawyers here.
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But he did not use the word "Banana". According to some recent newspaper articles, bookmakers had a 1:1000 pay-out on bets that his speech would include the word Banana... Darn, lost again.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Almost two hours into the Obama presidency...
Still waiting for all that change...
Liberty in your lifetime
Obama will change that. Mark my words.
Why is this story tagged "Ronpaul?" Is it maybe because Ron Paul still has just as much of a chance of getting the presidency now as he ever did?
(Paulites note that I'm just teasing because you make it so easy)
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On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all, it's not like you actually elected him.
I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you, doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own. It would be like if, well, say you had ten times the television audeince we did and you flood our market with great shows, cheaper than we could produce. I know you'd never do that.
I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our defence I guess our excuse would be that our team was much, much, much, much better than yours. As word of apology, please accept all of our NHL teams which, one by one, are going out of business and moving to your fine country.
I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when you're going up against a crazed dictator, you want to have your friends by your side. I realize it took more than two years before you guys pitched in against
Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had weapons.
I'm sorry we burnt down your White House during the War of 1812. I see you've rebuilt it! It's very nice.
I'm sorry for Alan Thicke, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Loverboy, that song from Seriff that ends with a really high-pitched long note. Your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer, but we feel your pain.
And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that we're constantly apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over this. Because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with.
-- Seq
Why not just leave some spare money around instead? Obama does seem to be all for change...
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Damn, I missed it.
I wish there had been some mention of it in the media lately so I would have know it was about to happen.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
Who was that announcer? He sounded like the "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" guy. I half expected him to announce "In this corner, President Elect Barack H. Obama. In that corner, Chief Justice Roberts. Let's get ready to INAUGURAAAAAAAATE!"
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Cut him some slack. As a lily-white Republican, he gets very nervous when surrounded by black people.
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Am I the only one wondering what this story is about? Who is this guy, and why should we care? Everywhere I go on the net, I see references to him, and now it has invaded the geek sites I live on. SIGH.
Can we get back to cat pictures and things labeled fail again so I can feel secure?
-Charlie
(Note: The new /. engine strips out HTML sarcasm tags. Please imagine they are there.)
Exactly. Money circulating gets around to people. Random projects mean more jobs. It's exactly how FDR took us out of the Great Depression (and built up electricity infrastructure to rural areas to boot!)
Washington was also a general. I believe that, on NPR, they were speaking in generalities.
If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz!
But he did not even get to say, "excuse me why I whip this out!"
What you say? Main screen turn on!
""Having" Bush as ex-president is quite a pleasing thing."
I bet people said that about Carter too and then he powered up into Uber-Carter and still refuses to shut up.
The only thing I wonder about... Bush supposedly blew a kiss out the window of his limo as he left the White house for the last time. Did anyone see if, after blowing the kiss, his hand went to his behind, slightly changing the message?
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but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
Yes, what you say. Until he can release all zig for Great Justice, he can not set up us the bomb.
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He's also the same Chief Justice who screwed up the recitation of the oath, which is one of the most well-known passages in the Constitution. Wouldn't surprise me if he thought the President wasn't the President until the oath of office was administered. He's a special one, that Roberts.
The only thing I wonder about... Bush supposedly blew a kiss out the window of his limo as he left the White house for the last time. Did anyone see if, after blowing the kiss, his hand went to his behind, slightly changing the message?
It wasn't to the white house, it was to the US. I caught a glimpse of his bumper sticker... it said "Fuck this place, I'm moving to Dubai"
...on electing a president who can speak English.