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riehlworldview.com - 1/21/2009
Let Us In! We Are Purple!
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From a FireDogLake post entitled: Worst. Inauguration. Ever. Evidently a great many ticket holders never did get an opportunity to join in the festivities. Might this not serve as a parable of sorts of what a great number of people experience whenever they put their full faith, propserity ...
facebook.com - 1/21/2009
Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom
— facebook.com — Johan wrote at 8:28pm the most disorganized public event i've ever been to Elizabeth wrote at 8:11pm Wow, the merry band of silver ticket wanderers of which I was one at least got directed away from the tunnel -we never got in but we had the empty ... (more) Survivors of the Purple Tunnel of Doom

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The purple tunnel of doom
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/20/2009
The purple tunnel of doom
— lynch.foreignpolicy.com — A reported two million people watched Barack Obama's inauguration today. I, unfortunately, wasn't one of them. If you don't care why, and just want foreign policy blogging, skip the rest of this post and come back tomorrow. See, I went to the show ... (more) The purple tunnel of doom

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The Purple Ticket of DOOM! (video)
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The Purple Ticket of DOOM! (video)
— youtube.com — Tens of thousands who had tickets to Obama's swearing-in spent the morning in a tunnel under the national mall (more) The Purple Ticket of DOOM! (video)

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Stop The ACLU — The average fan of “yes we can”? But there was no escape–no chance to leave my area. I was boxed in. I couldn’t join the line of latecomers. People chanted, “Let us in.” People chanted, “We have tickets.” People chanted “we are purple,” waving their precious 4×6 inch tickets in the air. And then they just started begging and shouting. Let us in. We have tickets. We’ve been here for hours. Let us in. And then it was noon. And everything stopped. And then a 21-gunner of deafening percussion. And then, shear, crushing disappointment descends over the crowd. Unlike the smiles on ...

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