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Published 1/15/2009 at msnbc.com: Politics
Washington D.C. doesn’t get to host Mardi Gras or the Super Bowl, so the presidential inauguration is our city's spectacle. It combines revelry with what Ronald Reagan called "a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our Nation… a commonplace occurrence.”
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