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'They're Starting To Seriously Worry': Concern Growing About Low Turnout At Obama Inauguration
UK Daily Mail ^ | 12:34 EST, 6 January 2013 | By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press

Posted on 01/06/2013 3:35:37 PM PST by drewh

Hotel rooms remain unbooked ahead of January 21 inauguration ceremony Organizers expecting much lower turnout than 2009 ceremony, when nearly 2 million people flocked to the National Mall

Crowds may have flocked to the National Mall to see President Obama make history in 2009, but the team behind the president's 2013 inauguration bash later this month are bracing themselves for a ton of empty seats. The ceremony that Washington will stage in a few weeks won't be the historic affair it was in 2009, when nearly 2 million people flocked to the Capitol to watch Obama take the oath of office. This time, District of Columbia officials expect between 600,000 and 800,000 people for Obama's public swearing-in on the steps of the Capitol on Monday, January 21.

Two weeks before the big day, plenty of hotel rooms still haven't been booked. Four years ago, some hotels sold out months in advance. There will be just two official inaugural balls this year, both at the Washington Convention Center, rather than 10 official balls at multiple locations around town.

The pair of celebrations are the lowest number since 1953, according to the New York Post.

A political insider told the paper: 'Some on the presidential inaugural committee are starting to seriously worry.' His inaugural committee has also scaled the celebration back to three days of festivities, instead of four.

Some changes are on account of the slowly recovering economy and a desire by planners to ease the security burden on law enforcement.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoinauguration; ceremony; cgi; districtofcolumbia; fakebirthcertificate; inauguration; kenyanbornmuzzie; nooneathome; obamainaugural; obamma; partisanmediashills; photoshop; shortattentionspan; wasteoftime; youdidntbuildthat
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To: All

If he was on fire.....I wouldn’t cross the street to piss on him.


101 posted on 01/06/2013 5:54:06 PM PST by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: drewh
'They're Starting To Seriously Worry': Concern Growing About Low Turnout At Obama Inauguration

There are plenty of graveyards. They need to start digging, clearly they constitute the majority of his @#$%! supporters.

102 posted on 01/06/2013 5:55:52 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: drewh

The DNC just needs to call rent a monkey


103 posted on 01/06/2013 6:00:06 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: grateful

“If the libs were holding their coronation for Barry IN my house, I wouldn’t go.”

Well actually they ARE. The White House is ‘the people’s house.’ Doesn’t that make you feel better?

Couldn’t pay me to go! I’ve made plans to be well outta dodge that weekend.


104 posted on 01/06/2013 6:04:07 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: drewh

Hold it in a secret location with his buddy CJ John Roberts presiding. We don’t want to see it. Save the money. You can donate it to the unions. Or hand out more free phones, internet, rent. Just don’t tell us what you did with it.


105 posted on 01/06/2013 6:27:02 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: drewh
FREE Trillion Dollar Platinum Coins to All who Attend!
106 posted on 01/06/2013 6:27:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: drewh
A crap load of these never got sold. I wonder what O-hole will get stuck with?


107 posted on 01/06/2013 6:35:51 PM PST by Lockbar (Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ------ The New Gold)
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To: drewh

They should sell tickets to all the dead and non existent people that elected him.


108 posted on 01/06/2013 6:45:07 PM PST by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)
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To: unixfox
Will the messiah even attend or will he still be in Hawaii on vacay as usual.

Nah, that piece of sh** will be there.

109 posted on 01/06/2013 6:47:51 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: unixfox

Barry will be on vacation. They will be swearing in the acting POTUS... the auto-pen!


110 posted on 01/06/2013 6:55:39 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: lonestar
An empty chair at the inauguration, surrounded by an autopen and teleprompter?

-PJ

111 posted on 01/06/2013 6:57:37 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Sounds good!


112 posted on 01/06/2013 7:16:20 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

They can put them on the $2.84 million dollar temporary grandstand!

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2012/12/prepping-for-inauguration-dc.html


113 posted on 01/06/2013 7:27:05 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...only with a paid day off.


114 posted on 01/06/2013 7:29:15 PM PST by thouworm (.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

The official Inauguration Day is January 20th. However, as that date falls on a Sunday in 2013, the public swearing-in ceremony will be held on Monday, January 21, 2013.


115 posted on 01/06/2013 7:32:24 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: lacrew
Will Hillary be there...

If she's not, it would mean that the heads of the entire federal government will be gathered together in one place, while Hillary is elsewhere.

But remember, the fact that she is the 4th in line of presidential succession means absolutely, positively, nothing.

Really.

116 posted on 01/06/2013 7:40:35 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Robert DeLong
The official Inauguration Day is January 20th. However, as that date falls on a Sunday in 2013, the public swearing-in ceremony will be held on Monday, January 21, 2013.

Yeah, like that really matters. Congress can meet on Christmas Eve to shove through bills that no one wants, Obama can sign legislation via autopen while playing in the waves in Hawaii, but a presidential inauguration on a Sunday? No way!

LOL!

117 posted on 01/06/2013 7:43:42 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: drewh

Don’t worry. The hookers are now starting to do their bookings at Motel 4 and Howard’s Johnson.


118 posted on 01/06/2013 7:45:22 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Crucial

with all the examples of voter fraud, I think it’s
a good possibility that “the Chicago way” put him
over the top
If Chavez can make up a 5 percent deficit...


119 posted on 01/07/2013 4:50:31 AM PST by paythefiddler (redefeat communism)
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To: zagger

“It’s hard for dead voters to get a ride to the festivities.”

Post of the day? lol


120 posted on 01/07/2013 5:24:25 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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