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Cleaver Warns of Inauguration Headaches
Reported by: Larry Seward
Last Update: 1/10 12:11 pm
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If you're planning a trip to see Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration, U.S. Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver, II suggests you think long and hard about the physical demands. He says they can be overwhelming. Still, a group of Obama supporters are ignoring the warning.
"It doesn't bother me if it's cold or what," said Dorriss Lyman, owner of Papa Lew's restaurant and an Obama campaign volunteer. "I've got my ski pants. I'm taking my grandchildren. I'm going to have my thermals on and my gloves. I don't care what it takes. If I've got to sleep outdoors, I'm still going."
Even without tickets, Lyman is taking 106 people to Washington D.C. on a bus.
"It doesn't matter," Lyman said. "I'm going on faith."
A million more plan to do the same. As the district prepares for the masses, Congressman Cleaver warns it's going to be very uncomfortable to witness history. (Getty Images) Cleaver says visitors will have to leave their hotels before 4 a.m. the morning of the inauguration. Many streets will be closed. Parking will be extremely limited. Visitors will also have to wait in long lines for public transportation then walk several miles. They can also expect to stand for eight hours in the cold.
If you think it's something you can't handle, Cleaver suggests you stay home.
"I don't care how cold it is," said Yvonne Brown. "I don't care what's going on. My plan is to be there and support him whatever we can do."
Some local Obama campaign volunteers refuse to miss the opportunity to see him sworn-in.
"We registered people, the young, old, sick 24 hours a day, seven days a week," said Arretta Shannon, an Obama campaign volunteer. "This is the reward."
"At my age, I didn't think I would even see the day we would be electing a black man as president," Brown said.
"Can't nothing stop me, as long as God wills," said Dorriss Lyman. "If I get sick, take me any way!"
Obama needs to do something about global warming!
Well, then... they'll be used to high-density living by the time they get there!
I remember Bush’s 2000 inauguration when it was drizzly but then it stopped and the sun came out.
Sounds like they stopped just short of ‘raising the dead’ in their registration process - I’m surprised they didn’t report the number of votes they managed to push through from all that effort.
God has nothing to do with election rigging vote scams.
these people and other goofs like them are going to end up in public shelters at taxpayer expense -
the city is going to look like a winter time version of Hurricane Katrina day-after
Get there early with the rest of the herd. 
Now that was a funny thing to watch.
I’m still hoping that God will have mercy on our country and open (and then close up) a huge hole underneath the grandstand just when the Marxist is taking the oath of office.
....and at my age and white, I didn't think I would live to see an incoming president telling the nation daily how bad off we are and planning to spend another trillion to prop up the already propped up by putting the nation on welfare..............
Those attending better wear a Depends. There’s supposed to be 5,000 public toilets...this article says a crowd of 4 million is estimated ...persons per toilet, 800. The article says the optimum number of people per toilet usually is 300/toilet, so if 1.5 million show up, they’re okay, but 4 million...it’ll be a nightmare.
Remember the saying “When Hell Freezes Over”? Well it is about to do just that..I could not imagine standing in any weather like that waiting to see the devil be sworn into the highest office in the world..
After the 20th we will be treated to stories about how Obama's peeps endured all manner of hardship to be in the same city while their savior was inaugurated. None of them will actually see anything but the butt ends of the folks in front of them.
Never in the field of US politics have so many waited so long for so little.A slight change is in order:
Never in the history of mankind have so many stood for so long in such cold for so little
[”It doesn’t bother me if it’s cold or what,” “I’ve got my ski pants. I’M TAKING MY GRANDCHILDREN. I don’t care what it takes. If I’ve got to sleep outdoors, I’m still going.”]
I’m sure your grandchildren will just love being cold, wet, hungry, sleeping outdoors and crying while you indulge in your insanity.
Looks like "the One" is going to have to spread some loaves and fishes.
I don't think he's up to it and I think there will be RIOTS AND LOOTING