Just back from running errands, putting away groceries etc. Some thoughts.
The line at the post office was long since the stamp machine was broken. I couldn’t help but notice the photos of then President Bush and VP Cheney in the entrance way. I don’t know if those came down at Noon but they were up as of 11:15 and some people in line didn’t like it.
Noticed that Biden was sworn in first with a flourish in the middle so technically for about 5 min Bush was president with Biden as his VP.
To answer the question I was at a traffic light eating a Big Mac.
John Roberts is a great jurist and a fine supreme court justice but COME ON how do you blow the oath of office? He won’t live that down in a hurry.
I stayed parked at Romano’s mkt listening to the speech, not bad some minor weak spots but not bad.
Thought the crowd might Boo when he thanked President Bush.
I noted that the snow drifts didn’t instantly melt nor did the ground open up and swallow the country whole. This must have been a great shock to two very different groups of people.
Watching the dinner on C-Span, boy Ted Kennedy has lost a ton of weight, dying tends to do that to you. I don’t much care for his politics but its sad to watch a person die like that.
The two local stations didn’t carry Rush’s critique or Rush at all. I would have been interesting to hear it in real time but I’ll have 4 years at least to hear and or Join in Rush’s Critique of President Obama.
Joe Biden’s wife is really good looking, I can’t help but like the man. He’s wrong on a lot but I bet o na personal level he can be counted on.
Has a mother-in-law ever moved into the White House?
Obama is greeting McCain and Gore. McCain doesn’t seem upset that he lost, you can still see resentment on Gore’s face. (Saw that on Kerry’s wife’s face to in the crowd.)
Watching him work the crowd he looks good and confident. I don’t care for the idolatry of his fans in the media but he SHOULD be confident he can make a difference. If he wasn’t he wouldn’t be going for the job.
Starting tomorrow the rubber hits the road we will now see if he can cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a Herring govern.
If he can win the war on terror and turn the economy around he’ll be a winner in my book.
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Actually I don’t think Bush was still President. I believe Biden was actually President for the few minutes between when Bush’s term expired at noon and Obama was sworn in. I base this on that Obama had not yet been sworn in and the constitution says (Article 2 Section 1) “7. Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Mix that with the 20th Amendment and the line and section 1 which says “Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”…So Bush couldn’t serve beyond noon, and Biden had been sworn in, so I would think we had very briefly the Biden Administration. And for the record there were no Gaffes on Biden’s part.
I was under the impression that power doesn’t change hands until the oath takes place, but who knows.
Lets see how many of the Birth Certificate loonies decide that President Obama is not a valid president because the oath was botched. There will be idiots who say this. They deserve a collective Nelson.