Inauguration--First Impressions
Posted: January 20th, 2005, 6:20 pm
I am watching the inaugural events on television even though they are just a few miles away. I'm glad I didn't go. It's cold out there and also I have a huge disaffinity for cops. And there are a lot of cops. In the shots of the motorcade progressing to the Capitol for the swearing in ceremony, there were obviously more cops than there were spectators.
The American Presidential Inauguration has come to resemble the English Crown Coronation. Why shouldn't it? We have emerged as a nation from the stage of Republic into the stage of Dynastic Empire.
Bush's Inaugural Speech was one of the strongest that I've ever seen him give discounting the fact that it had no connection whatsoever with reality. He never mentioned Iraq or anything specific really. The rhetoric was high flown and vague, talking about lofty things like spreading freedom and liberty at the point of an American gun.
The speech was well written. If it had been delivered by, say, Jimmy Carter, I might have believed it. But there is something about George Bush's demeanor and also his record that prevents me from believing most everything that comes from his mouth.
The police were four deep along Pennsylvania Ave. It looked like Nazi Germany. I'm ashamed. Why should the leader of the Free World need literally thousands of body guards? Even the protesters needed a ticket to watch the President pass. I think they were actually hired by Central Casting just so this administration could claim that they allow protest.
The American Presidential Inauguration has come to resemble the English Crown Coronation. Why shouldn't it? We have emerged as a nation from the stage of Republic into the stage of Dynastic Empire.
Bush's Inaugural Speech was one of the strongest that I've ever seen him give discounting the fact that it had no connection whatsoever with reality. He never mentioned Iraq or anything specific really. The rhetoric was high flown and vague, talking about lofty things like spreading freedom and liberty at the point of an American gun.
The speech was well written. If it had been delivered by, say, Jimmy Carter, I might have believed it. But there is something about George Bush's demeanor and also his record that prevents me from believing most everything that comes from his mouth.
The police were four deep along Pennsylvania Ave. It looked like Nazi Germany. I'm ashamed. Why should the leader of the Free World need literally thousands of body guards? Even the protesters needed a ticket to watch the President pass. I think they were actually hired by Central Casting just so this administration could claim that they allow protest.