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Inaugural gives younger generation their own Woodstock (DO take that brown acid, man)
SF Chronicle ^ | 1/19/2009 | Carla Marinucci

Posted on 01/19/2009 6:34:07 PM PST by markomalley

America's 20-something "millennials" have driven, hitchhiked, walked, biked, and bussed their way to Washington in hordes this week to witness the must-see, must-be-there event of their lives - the swearing-in of Barack Obama.

Many of their Baby Boomer parents can relate: they remember this thing called Woodstock.

No one is suggesting that a rock concert on a farm in upstate New York where guitarist Jimi Hendrix wailed the "The Star Spangled Banner" - don't even mention to the sex, drugs and three days of rock and roll - approaches the weight of the inauguration of the first African American president.

But there are surprising similarities, experts say. Just as Woodstock was for their parents, Obama's moment assuming the presidency represents a "generational touchstone" event - one will define millennials' lives, their age and their experience, and become the event they will tell their kids and grandkids about.

And if history is a guide, a lot folks who aren't there today will claim that they were; Woodstock attracted a relatively small 400,000 and somehow it seems millions remember being on hand.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aginghippies; babyboomers; generationy; obamamessiah; obamaregime; youthvote
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One big difference: All of this "event" circles around a cult leader.
1 posted on 01/19/2009 6:34:08 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

“Inaugural stampede kills hunderds”

think it can’t happen?


2 posted on 01/19/2009 6:35:42 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: markomalley

Not my 12 year old daughter.


3 posted on 01/19/2009 6:36:29 PM PST by Shyla
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To: markomalley

"CAN YOU DIG IT?!?!"

4 posted on 01/19/2009 6:36:53 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: markomalley
"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4Jfw6fON_zH/One+Obama+Inaugural+Celebration+Lincoln+Memorial/1NNi5cTZF2d/Bruce+Springsteen
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619

5 posted on 01/19/2009 6:37:44 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: markomalley

6 posted on 01/19/2009 6:38:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie utulie. Mornie alantie.)
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To: dfwgator

Wrong movie. Obama is the DUKE OF CHICAGO! A NUMBER ONE!!!


7 posted on 01/19/2009 6:39:22 PM PST by Clemenza (Red is the Color of Virility, Blue is the Color of Impotence)
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To: Shyla

Not me either and I’m 26. To the author: Don’t include me in this, you silly twit.


8 posted on 01/19/2009 6:42:02 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: BenLurkin

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From Wikipedia, with references at site:

"In 1951, [Reverend Jim] Jones (Jonestown) began attending communist meetings and rallies in Indianapolis.[4] Jones became flustered at harassment he received during the McCarthy Hearings,[4] particularly, regarding meetings between Jones and his mother with Paul Robeson.[5] This, among other things, provoked a seminal moment for Jones where he asked himself "how can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church."[5][4]"

"In the summer of 1977, Jones and most of the 900 members of the People's Temple moved to Guyana from San Francisco after media pressure built.[25] Jones left the same night that an editor at New West magazine read Jones an article by Marshall Kilduff to be published detailing allegations by former Temple members.[25][16] Jones named the settlement Jonestown after himself.

Jones purported to establish Jonestown as a benevolent model communist community stating, 'I believe we’re the purest communists there are.' [26] Jones' wife, Marceline, described Jonestown as "dedicated to live for socialism, total economic and racial and social equality. We are here living communally."[26] Jones wanted to construct a model community to show others and stated that Prime Minister of Guyana Forbes Burnham 'couldn’t rave enough about us, uh, the wonderful things we do, the project, the model of socialism.'[27] In that regard, like the restrictive emigration policies of the then Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and other communist republics, Jones did not permit members to leave Jonestown.[28]

Jones and several members argued that the group should commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid) along with a sedative.[39]

One member, Christine Miller, dissents toward the beginning of the tape.[39] When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity."[39] Jones can be heard saying, "Don't be afraid to die" and, regarding death as "just stepping over into another plane" and that "[death is] a friend."[39] At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: "We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."[39] Children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together. The mass suicide had been discussed in simulated events called "White Nights" on a regular basis, while members drank liquid Jones first told them was poison during at least one of those White Nights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

9 posted on 01/19/2009 6:42:20 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: markomalley

And please eat the yellow snow while you’re at it.


10 posted on 01/19/2009 6:45:14 PM PST by oblomov (Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
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To: markomalley

I hope they realize that DC is quite cold in January and sleeping outside can get you frostbite.


11 posted on 01/19/2009 6:46:10 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: ETL
What is this? Springsteen does Joe Cocker?


12 posted on 01/19/2009 6:46:13 PM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (The Big 3 Auto Makers - Where Attention to Kwality is Jobe Won.)
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(DO take that brown acid, man)

LOL! By all means, poseurs!

13 posted on 01/19/2009 6:53:19 PM PST by GVnana ("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

What is this? Springsteen does Joe Cocker?

Looks more like Springsteen does cocky.

14 posted on 01/19/2009 6:59:04 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Sig Sauer P220

“Cocky” as I meant it, is ‘do do’.


15 posted on 01/19/2009 7:04:02 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: markomalley

There are many kind of historical moments.

16 posted on 01/19/2009 7:07:12 PM PST by eclecticEel (The liberal's sense of compassion begins and ends with their own person.)
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To: markomalley

You forgot the projectile barf alert.


18 posted on 01/19/2009 7:18:23 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: markomalley

We already had our Woodstock. We ended up setting things on fire at that one and there have been none ever since.


19 posted on 01/19/2009 7:20:57 PM PST by TypeZoNegative (Pro life & Vegan because I respect all life, Republican because our enemies don't respect ours.)
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To: eclecticEel
There are many kind of historical moments.

Rather fitting that Garth Brooks was singing "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie".


20 posted on 01/19/2009 7:21:11 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself)
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