Lammycat Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Rather than reform it and add to it. It needs to just be eliminated.I actually feel there aren some decent qualities to it but that it most definitely needs to be curbed quite a bit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I like that they were playing the Monty Python theme when the Obamas were heading to church. Did they play the Benny Hill song when W left town?The USMC band has played that (Sousa's Liberty Bell March) the past two inaugurations as well.No word on Yakkity Sax. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Ted Kennedy suffers seizure. Prayers for Teddy. Robert Byrd was taken out of the same luncheon in a wheel chair after having problems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I just realized the President of the United States is younger than I am (by 5 months, 24 days). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Smith Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I just realized the President of the United States is younger than I am (by 5 months, 24 days). 11 months and two weeks younger than me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hey, same here. Me too. I figured I was cursed. I guess not. It is my hope that today marks the final nail in the coffin of what was known as the "Reagan Revolution". That era is over. Let's get on with the new one. Bravo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 It's very sad that Teddy Kennedy has been so ill, but for the first time in 30 years he actually looked dried out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jules Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 rude as it may have been, I must admit that I chuckled when I heard the crowd chanting "na na na na, na na na na, hey, hey, goodbye" to Bush as his helicopter left DC.More stupid than rude, don't you think? Ignorant, maybe? Say what you will about his time in office; disagree with his decisions; make fun of his manner of speech, etc. etc., but I would think he deserves a little more respect than that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ih8music Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 More stupid than rude, don't you think? Ignorant, maybe? Say what you will about his time in office; disagree with his decisions; make fun of his manner of speech, etc. etc., but I would think he deserves a little more respect than that.stupid, disrespectful, ignorant, etc... i agree. still, it made me chuckle... giddiness supercedes decorum, I suppose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 More stupid than rude, don't you think? Ignorant, maybe? Say what you will about his time in office; disagree with his decisions; make fun of his manner of speech, etc. etc., but I would think he deserves a little more respect than that.Agreed. Its not a high school football game. He may have been an awful President, but he was still the President. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I would think he deserves a little more respect than that. I hear this said often about the office of the president. I am not sure I follow the line of thinking. The guy didn't have to run for president. He did. The people put him there. He works for the people. He is there to serve the people's best interests. As far as I am concerned, the people can do or say whatever they want vis-a-vis the president. Sure, it's tacky, and I wouldn't do it, but I can't criticize people for voicing their displeasure for a president with paltry approval ratings, whose vice president went on the NewsHour last week to say that they don't govern to the polls. Good for them. They don't govern to the opinion of the people that put them there. The rationale of your point (I assume) would be that whether you agree or disagree with what he did, he did what he thought was correct, and did it as well as he could. Is that right? I still don't see why that doesn't give people the right to be disrespectful if they so choose. Bush wasn't serving as President to provide some sort of charity. Maybe I am missing your point? EDIT: I dont mean to limit this to Bush -- I hear this said often about presidents and the deference and respect that should be paid to them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 The office deserves respect, sure. G.W. Bush? I don't know - he REALLY made a mess of it. Often, leaders who fuck up as badly as he did end up leaving a lot less gently than he did. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jules Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 The rationale of your point (I assume) would be that whether you agree or disagree with what he did, he did what he thought was correct, and did it as well as he could. Is that right? I still don't see why that doesn't give people the right to be disrespectful if they so choose. Bush wasn't serving as President to provide some sort of charity. Maybe I am missing your point? EDIT: I dont mean to limit this to Bush -- I hear this said often about presidents and the deference and respect that should be paid to them.No, I think you get my point. Of course anyone has the right to be disprespectful. I just find it childish, immature, and ignorant of the demands of the position, especially in this context. Everyone's ready to move on, myself included. So, do it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I'm ready to move on and I'm sure that former President George W. Bush is too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I hear this said often about the office of the president. I am not sure I follow the line of thinking. The guy didn't have to run for president. He did. The people put him there. He works for the people. He is there to serve the people's best interests. As far as I am concerned, the people can do or say whatever they want vis-a-vis the president. Sure, it's tacky, and I wouldn't do it, but I can't criticize people for voicing their displeasure for a president with paltry approval ratings, whose vice president went on the NewsHour last week to say that they don't govern to the polls. Good for them. They don't govern to the opinion of the people that put them there. The rationale of your point (I assume) would be that whether you agree or disagree with what he did, he did what he thought was correct, and did it as well as he could. Is that right? I still don't see why that doesn't give people the right to be disrespectful if they so choose. Bush wasn't serving as President to provide some sort of charity. Maybe I am missing your point? EDIT: I dont mean to limit this to Bush -- I hear this said often about presidents and the deference and respect that should be paid to them.The office, the idea of the President is what I mean. I haven't got any complaint about judging the man, whomever that man (this being a men's club so far) may be. Although, really, (using my own logic I'll contradict myself now) he wasn't President anymore when he got on that chopper was he? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jules Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 So, I haven't been able to watch TV today. What happens after the swearing in/speech? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 So, I haven't been able to watch TV today. What happens after the swearing in/speech? Parade. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I'll say it too: FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Jules Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Yeah? Doesn't he sign some stuff too? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Yeah? Doesn't he sign some stuff too? W-4, insurance papers, 401k enrollment, etc? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I think he sign papers to formalize his nominees for cabinet positions but i seem to remember reading a rumor that he was going to sign some presidential decrees to having to do with some of the no-brainers like stem cell research Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 At least W got off easier than this guy: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 At least W got off easier than this guy: Crazy Nixon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Well, Roberts effed up the line, which I think threw Obama off.Looking back at other presidential swearings in - it looks as though Obama did indeed jump the gun on that first line. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dondoboy Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 From the good people at The Onion Hillary Clinton Mouthing Along To Presidential OathJANUARY 20, 2009 | ISSUE 45•04 WASHINGTON—Network news cameras covering Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office. As she stood watching several yards from Chief Justice John Roberts, the former Democratic presidential candidate could be observed placing her left hand on a leather appointment book and raising her right hand slightly from her hip. Clinton, who carefully followed the swearing-in procedure with her eyes shut tightly, only varied from the president's words once, when she soundlessly mouthed her name instead of Barack Obama's. Clinton was later seen at an inaugural ball pretending she was dancing with first lady Michelle Obama. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.