novinite.com - 1/21/2009
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To mark the end of a long day of formal inaugural events and the 2-year campaign, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended 10 inaugural celebrations that continued into the wee hours of Wednesday. Their first dance was at the Neighborhood Ball, under the sounds of Etta ...
ustream.tv - 1/16/2009
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ustream.tv —
The presidential inauguration is the official day that
the President of the United States is sworn into...
office. The purpose of this inauguration is to honor the incoming president with formal ceremonies, including: a Presidential Swearing-in Ceremony, ...
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Barack Obama Inauguration Day LIVE, Ustream.TV: The ...
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com - 1/21/2009
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jamesfallows.theatlantic.com —
Still early for the First Family, who have
several more inaugural balls to go, but late for...
a mere citizen after his quota of evening events -- capped by the pleasure of seeing a Metro car jammed at 1:00am with people in every station of life and mode ...
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Very late night inauguration points
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Breaking Tradition-- Obama Blows Off Medal of Honor Recipients
Gateway Pundit —
**Change** For the first time in 56 years, since Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated, President Obama blew off the "Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball" last night at the Rennaissance hotel in the nation's capital. This Aint Hell has the details. Sad. The Obama's did make it to ten other balls during the evening.
Obama Snubs Medal of Honor Ball
Stop The ACLU —
... ego couldn’t handle being surrounded by actual heroes? The American Legion sponsors the ball, which recognizes recipients of Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It started in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration. Event co-sponsors include 13 other veterans service organizations, among them the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Paralyzed Veterans of America. For some reason, Obama couldn’t find the time to squeeze this ball into the long list of black tie parties.
Obamas Snub Traditional “Salute To Heroes Inaugural Ball”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Legion sponsors the ball, which recognizes recipients of Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. It started in 1953 for President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first inauguration.
Event co-sponsors include 13 other veterans service organizations, among them the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
So where was our new President instead of honoring Medal of Honor recipients who by some miracle are still alive? :
novinite:
Ten Balls Top Obama Inauguration Day
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Obama Will Eat Like Lincoln on Inauguration Day
blogs.abcnews.com 1/11/2009 — On Inauguration Day, not only will President-elect Obama be sworn in using the Bible that was used to swear in President Abraham Lincoln, he will dine like Lincoln as well. The luncheon that will be served in Congress's Statuary Hall...
Inauguration Day
ettlin.blogspot.com 1/20/2009 — The long national nightmare ends -- or at least begins to end. Obama spoke of the ground shifting underfoot, and in watching the inauguration, you could feel it as the nation clearly comes to a fork in the road of history. But a fork is not a sharp turn -- just a shift to a hopefully wiser path.
The New York Times Throws a Hip Inauguration Party for Obama
newsbusters.org 1/23/2009 — The New York Times celebrated Obama's presidency Inauguration Night at a hip location in the already painfully hip Lower East Side of Manhattan. Reid Pillifant, blogging for the New York Observer , filed the day after Tuesday night's NYT party at the ...
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