Will you be watching the Inauguration of President Elect Obama?
 

Will you be watching the Inauguration of President Elect Obama?

I will only because it's an historic moment.

Gabby

i will not... but the tv will show the "Inauguration of President Obama" lol

i'm not really interested in ceremonies, i prefer action. i'm waiting for the government of the USA to be what Barrack told he would offer... i give him 365 days to transform the USA!

Thank god for picture in picture technology.... I think there's a new episode of Family Guy on at the time:) ;):D

I'm going to.

Obama who???

I haven't decided if I'm going to go down and witness it first hand as much as I can or stay warm and watch it from my tv.

It'd be cool to go, but I'd miss at least 1 day of classes and freeze to death in the process too. So i'll probably catch it on the tube

I'm like nexialys,i want to see some action take place...all that talk that he put out so lets see how he flows...plus I'm not into all that anyways...It's all the same. :rolleyes:

I'll be watching online. I'm sure all the networks will have a live feed, just like they did for the conventions, the debates and election night. Would like to have seen a lot of thing first hand, but at least technology makes it possible to witness history as it happens. Even if it causes some people to not recognize it when they see it.

I'm at work all day today :( But here in the uK we have a more serious problem called Gordon Brown, I'd gladly take a day off to watch his sacking on TV.

Good Luck for everyone in the States, Hope this new guy brings new ideas with him :up:

Umm... no?
I've got better things to do LOL :D

I agree except I give him 180 days. He talked some serious trash over his campaign and it will be interesting to see what action he will take.

Let's start some drama. He preached "change" so much, but has appointed so many Clinton-ites. LOL@ change I'm sure it was a backroom deal with the real boss!

moving from Republicans to Democrats is already a Change... Klinton never had the nerves to make the democrats apply the mood of his party... Klinton had a voice but no arms to make it so... i suppose Obama have the arms... he his backed by more people than Klinton will never be...

anyway, an image worth thousand words, i hope his image will talk solid.. lol

Well, change never meant a bunch of new people that nobody ever heard of. That wouldn't have made any sense. It simply meant a new way of conducting business. Change comes from the top down, not the other way around.

that kind of change you usually see ... never worked in the USA... it's time for something different. the non-sense may be something the USA need to try for a change. Working the american way is not the only way to deal with things.

i give Obama 365 days... the first 180 days to implement changes, 185 days to see the results...

You do realize that even he's stated that we probably won't see immediate results, even back on the campaign trail. The country is in a deep hole and it's going to take way longer then 365 days to dig our way out of it. We're all aware that things are likely going to get worse before they get better.

actually, the USA is not different from the rest of the world.. the financial crisis is not something we can apply to politic changes... George Bush did not help, Obama will not either... they accept the market changes, and they wait like others. It's their socialist vision that will make the changes... focussing on the family instead of the industry, making negotiations instead of provocation, making the country lead in the branches it is supposed to lead instead of breaking the others who can lead too...

i don't care about the financial crisis, personally. the 700G$ have to go to the people, not the main companies...

I'm not entirely sure I understood what you said.

nobody ever will, Mark, nobody... lol

I'm in the other part of the world right now, and I'm so willing to see the Inauguration...
yeah is historic, yeah he talk some change, yeah it will relative, yeah at the end the world will be the same as 'always'
I know D-Jedi supports Obama, and it's Ok I don't have nothing against him, but I embrace my own defects, my own stupidity and my boundaries as a human... why he's not? he's trying too hard to be like Lincoln that he didn't realize he's so symbolic on his own...

btw my hero is the Mother Teresa of Calcuta, and I'm not wearing her dress :D

p.s. yes DJ, what I say, I said with the best intentions, so how can you use my words against me?

Your kidding, right? That statement is simply not true. The Clinton Machine was very powerful, strong and rich. I suppose they still are also since they have taken Obama to the cleaners on a back room deal to get most of their people back in power. Esp since Hilary has been ousted from the 2012 presidential run now. They had to have made a deal. I'm convinced.

I wasn't singling you out, IO. I was referring to people in general who miss out on the significance of history when they happen to be living during it. Like the people who thought Martin Luther King was a big dreamer, the people who told Walt Disney to stick to making cartoons, the people who said the country would never elect a black president. It just seems a shame the some people will miss out on that because of misplaced cynicism and doubt.


Obama is a Democrat. How many qualified Democrats weren't part of the old Clinton Administration? Were you expecting, maybe, a bunch of politicians from the Socialist Party. :p

Blah Blah Blah... so if it was THAT powerful, why Obama had to help them with a 60Millions investment to evade the Clintons from Bankrupcy?!...

anyway, i was not talking about the PARTY, i was talking about the MAN... when Bush, Clinton, or the other Presidents were 2 days before their inauguration, did you see that much of appreciation of the population across the planet?!... there is manifestations of millions of people in all the countries right now... people who goes in the street in Arabia, China, Germany, Canada, Brasil, etc... nobody else in the Amercian history had that much of backup from the population... even Elvis or the Beatles.

And it's all because he's black and not GWB, certainly not because of his qualifications.

Right, because being black has always been the way to get ahead in American politics. :rolleyes:

lets leave Elvis out of this (long live the king) - The beatles u can drag in i dont mind :)
The American population want change thats why there is so many behind him.They live in hope that this man will save them and bring peace to the world.(Fairytale over - plz close book here and fall asleep :) )
Now the real truth is - he wont bring much that Bush never brought,simple because he is not a one man band.DO you honestly think Bush woke up one day and throught, thats it,im gonna attack Afghan and Iraq - NOPE - he has a machine working behind him 24 hrs a day,telling him what he should and not do.This same machine will also be directing Obama during his term of office.So you may see some changes but the majorty will be the same and when things look really bad they will just say `well we had to clean up bush`s mess`.
Do u also think that every person who worked Under Bush`s term will be gone,Im afraid not - same people will still be there working in background for Obama.
So as u see,change will not come - Remember all Politicians promise u what u want to get voted in but once they in,you get nothing - then how sad and lonely will u be when u think back on the times u waved the american flag in honour of Obama and wished him all the best.

You mean nothing to Obama and his family so best u remember that.Obama would not look down upon u if it was`nt for the fact that he needed u to get in office.

Deny it all you want, the fact remains it's the truth.

You know what? I'm actually going to watch it, if i have the time.
I'd really want to see the big parade that DC borrowed money for.
That's something worth seeing... maybe not til' the end but at least try.

So will you watching the inauguration? :D

HBO is having a special on right now...

Yeah, i'm going to... when exactly will it start?
Date, time... time zone? :p

Ok let's settle this once for all:

- I don't care if Obama is black [I'm super-minority ;) =handsome+muscular+smart+soon will be rich with my forum :D
- For all the newspapers in the world to stop saying: 'first president negro' he must embrace his roots and we all can forget about color...
- Yeah it's historic and I congratulate him, and I wish him the best as a human who accomplice his goals
- I wish he will be more realistic and a natural person and no just a 'sweet-talker'

'negro'?

I think they stopped using that word in the 50's...

Yeah he's off to a great start.. in the midst of the worst economy in modern times, he has a $150 million dollar inauguration ceremony. Bush spent 1/4 of that. Clinton even less. Not a great precedent if you ask me.

Ditto:) My first thoughts as well.

I'm sure I'll see parts of it, I wont necessarily be "watching" it though.

I should watch it..
I`ll be paying for it with the rest of the Amercians..

I'm just going to reply to this by saying your not a very good judge of character at all. You also, don't quite understand how the transition of Presidents work. The important administrative positions will almost be all new people, with the exception of one he's keeping on. Everyone else has nothing to do with policy making or decisions and have been working in the White House for most of their careers through several Presidents. That last statement you made us just the epitome of pessimism. You've looked at the values the Obama's exude, and just assumed it was the opposite for no reason at all.



Yeah, we don't use the word "negro" anymore in English. It's not an insult, per se, it's just antiquated and reminiscent of different era.

As far what you said about newspapers, the should absolutely not. Black people have been waiting for a time like this for hundreds of generations. To dismiss it as something just "really nice", is to dismiss the depth of it's significance. An entire race of people doesn't cry in one night because their candidate gets elected. They cry because their people have overcome a hurdle they never believed would be overcome.

See my other comment in the other thread. Obama's statements are the epitome of realism. He sugar coats nothing.


What are you two talking about? Only a fraction of Inaugurations are paid for by taxpayer money. Obama's transition team gets 8.5 million in taxpayers dollars, and the rest is all voluntary contributions. As of the 15th Obama had raised about 9.7 million dollars. George Bush raised 42 million for his swearing in. Obama is getting far less for his ceremony, partly because he's not accepting donations from political action committees or corporations. I know all this because he's made the Inauguration finances a matter of public record.

What an extremist Obamist you turn out to be...

I will happily slap you and Obama with a trout :D

YOU DON'T REALIZE that you are arguing with us, your friends, we may not be perfect, we may have a grudge, different points of views, and we may sound ignorant and sometimes intolerant... but we have been here with you :) [Obama no :p]

But is not up to Obama to solve the problems of the world, and is not up to you make us love so delusional guy :up:

p.s. I got something on my health that even Obama with his super-powers can fix, so lets go back to reality :p

ok, if Obama can help the world go better, i want a shuttle to the moon...

USA is still USA... they will always want to rule the world "their way"... like the UK try to rule the world their way, and France, and Germany, and Russia, blah blah blah... each grand country try to show up in the mist, they want to be the best to rule the world... that is pathetic, they can not even rule their own country...

i like the guy, i think he can do better than the last 5 presidents, even the last 43 presidents... but i do not think he is the god everybody think he can become...

no better than Washington, no better that Lincoln [when he wants to be his shadow and not King's] not even better that Roosvelt, that were humans tested by history... no matter what the color...