Posted on 01/20/2009 4:51:58 PM PST by fiodora
I don't mind admitting that I was misty-eyed as I watched Obama make his entrance. Although I like to think I'm reasonably grown-up about these things, it was a spectacle I wasn't sure I'd see in my lifetime. The speech itself seemed disappointingly short of poetry. But then I remember being deeply impressed with the oratory of George W. Bush's second inaugural, and look what happened to all those fine words. In these bleak times, there's something to be said for being business-like; Obama can leave the symbolism to other people, perhaps. The one moment I did love was when he broke into a smile towards the end of Rev. Lowery's benediction:
We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.
The language was pure Jeremiah Wright, yet the wry humour drew the sting. Was this a glimpse of the post-racial America that we keep hearing about?
Yeah, he can leave the symbolism to other people, because he himself is going to be crackin’ the whip across the backs of whitey.
An America without poetry is a USSR without God.
Clean up in Breaking News......
Guess his wish already came true! I've been on a self-imposed news blackout today, but I assume these ridiculous words actually were in the "Benediction"? I thought we were looking beyond race?
And a lot of whitey’s won’t put up with it
Who could help but be misty eyed.
I tried not to let the ramifications of this day get to me, or I would have gone more than misty.
Yea, I’m misty eyed too considering I never thought a terrorist loving racist Marxist hack would ever become El Presidente.
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Another limo libtard.
This one won’t, and if that makes me a racist, then so be it. I’m tired of being in the minority-every race can look out for its interests but mine, we’re always supposed to “the better man”. Sounds kind of Freudian to me.
A post-racial America isn't going to be ushered in by leftists, since racial division is their bread and butter.
How do you figure this belongs in Breaking News? This type of stuff has been a staple of virtually every media outlet for months...it is just opinion crafted in the depths of over emotionalism.
I too must admit I was misty-eyed...but only when I reminded myself that the first "affirmative action" president had just been sworn in by taking the "oaf of office".
It was pure racism and there was no humor about it, wry or otherwise. That's certainly the spin the MSM are trying to put on it, though, which they wouldn't be bothering with if they really thought it was inoffensive. That wet feeling on my back? It isn't rain.
...the first “affirmative action” president had just been sworn in by taking the “oaf of office”.
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consider the office to be officially degraded as of now.
4 years of that racist crap
Maybe that was his request that “blacks” don’t pay taxes anymore.
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