Unless Obama cancels the event, the Inauguration is going to happen, and it is going to attract a very large crowd.
Pres. Bush is doing the right thing to make sure that Federal and DC officials have the resources necessary for the logistics and security of a million+ people (twice the population of DC, BTW) coming to the event.
Yes, indeed. While I’m personally not a fan of huge crowd events, no matter what the occasion, most people feel differently and a million or more of them are determined to “be there” to see the first black President of the United States inaugurated. And honestly, even if Obama cancelled the event, I think most of them would show up anyway, to protest, saying he’d been pressured to do it, and that there’s no way a wildly popular white President-elect would have been pressured to cancel his public inauguration over security/expense concerns. Every once in a while, the federal government does something right, and this is one of those all too rare occasions.