Inauguration: Weekend wrap

The Washington Post on yesterday’s event in front of the Lincoln Memorial: “By some estimates, more than 400,000 people filled the western end of the Mall for the official start of a three-day jubilee of prayers, parades and parties. They endured long security lines and chilly weather for a two-hour salute to the man who will be America's first black president and to the nation that elected Barack Obama to the White House despite centuries of racial divisiveness.”  The New York Times : “Crammed together as far as the eye could see -- from the seated statue of Abraham Lincoln all the way past the reflecting pool and up the hill to the Washington Monument -- they danced, sang, shivered, cheered, hooted and hollered for the black man who will be America’s next president, in what seemed a cross between the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington and Woodstock.”  "The rollicking concert, titled ‘We Are One’ and broadcast live nationwide, was intended to ... (link)