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A Liberal Inaugural Address
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
In his first Inaugural, President Barack Hussein Obama delivered one the most eloquent descriptions of liberalism in history.
Many will focus on the calls for unity, to depict the speech as non-ideological. but make no mistake. President Obama is calling for unity to move America in a liberal direction.
The most critical passage:
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our ...
Biden Jokes about Roberts's Memory
News —
Biden Jokes about Roberts's Memory While swearing in senior White House staff today, Vice President Joe Biden made a crack about the not-so-smooth swearing in of President Barack Obama yesterday by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts — Chief Justice Roberts," Biden quipped as he began to administer an oath of office to a group of senior White House staff at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which holds the ceremonial office of the vice president and is located just West of the White House. Obama and Roberts stumbled over each other at the inaugural swearing in ceremony on the Capitol steps yesterday. Instead of waiting ...
Obama Takes the Oath a Second Time
Weekly Standard Blog —
From White House counsel Greg Craig:
"We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the President was sworn in appropriately yesterday. But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time."
According to the pool report, Roberts re-administered the oath to Obama in the map room at 7:35 p.m.
Just for the record, Obama jumped in too soon yesterday--after Roberts said "I, Barack Hussein Obama" instead of ...
Sunday Talk - Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Daily Kos —
I chose to stay up all night on Monday, but had I gone to sleep, I'm certain that I would've been happy to wake up Tuesday morning to the sights of Dick Cheney being wheeled out of the White House, Barack Hussein Obama being inaugurated as the 44th President, and, finally, George Bush leaving Washington for good. There's a lot more to enjoy below the fold — including the lineup, videos... even fisting.
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Calling Dr. Freud
Maggie's Farm —
Dino is trying to understand what makes Obama tick, and he rightly wonders what would cause a 33 year-old to write an autobiography. Dino is looking for clues to the man's underlying personality structure.
He is especially puzzled by this recent O quote:
Many of you have been taught to chase after the usual brass rings: being on this “who’s who” list or that top 100 list; how much money you make and how big your corner office is; whether you have a fancy enough title or a nice enough car…such an ...
