Inauguration--First Impressions

[Lightning Rod]

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.

[perezoso]

You missed your chance for an Oswald-like moment of glory, Tex. Find yr grassy knoll man.
And yeah Billy Bob Bush would look good in a crown, at least one from Burger King.

Here's Dubya the philosopher expiating: "There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom."

Can ya say Bloviating conservative Doublespeak 101?
Somehow "decent and tolerant" and the republican party don't seem that synonymous.

[bohonato]

You know you are a bad president when people use words from 1984 to describe you. Don't you love how the presidental limosine sped up around the protesters. The lovely announcers on CBS stated the fact that the protesters were allowed sections to protest so the authorities knew where they were. How clever.

What a waste of money.

[Lightning Rod]

zoso--
I don't need a grassy knoll. I'm gonna get him with a pretzel.

bohonato--

yeah, I saw the Secret Service guys trotting past the protesters when they were strolling the rest of the way.

[stilltrucking]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4460523

ATC four minute clip, analysis of our dear leaders performance

the line that popped out for me was
"An odd time for doubt"

all in all I thought it was a great speach, right up there with Peter Falk's speach in The Balcony. Genet movie from the sixties?

[mtmynd]

I'm still digesting that speech of his. Will it end with the runs or simply a good healthy shit is something I cannot predict at this time. But his speech writer deserves to be known, this much I do know. One of Dubya's finest 20 minutes I have to say, which is a great deal coming outta me.

[e_dog]

the newspapers on West coast were headlining Bush's call to "end tyranny"! without irony.

yes, indeed, end tyranny. and death to all the tyrants.

See: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.