[piasa]

Personally I don't think the libs can get enough of it. And they can hardly complain now that they are, with the help of Jim Wallis, going to remake themselves as religious to try to win back some votes.

[Howlin]

But whoever picked the music for the inaugural ceremony itself--modern megachurch hymns, music that sounds like what they'd use for the quiet middle section of a Pixar animated film--was . . . lame.

Trent Lott! John Ashcroft! Orrin Hatch!

[Howlin]

Doesn't this surprise you?

And yet such promising moments were followed by this, the ending of the speech. "Renewed in our strength--tested, but not weary--we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom."

This is--how else to put it?--over the top.

Does she not grasp the concept that unless we try to spread democracy, however a country might define it, throughout the world, we'll never truly be secure as a country?

And, IMO, if we can even START that process, it most certainly will be the greatest achievement of our history.