This is the private swearing in ceremony.
Posted on 01/21/2013 7:17:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON -- Four years after making history by becoming the first African-American president, Barack Obama will kick off his second term on Monday with a scaled-back inauguration that reflects the tempered expectations for his next four years in office.
Lingering high unemployment, bitter political battles and a divisive re-election campaign have punctured the mood of optimism and hope that infused Obama's 2009 inauguration after a sweeping election win.
This time, Obama's inauguration will feature smaller crowds and a reduced slate of inaugural balls and parties to match the more subdued tenor of the times.
When Obama raises his right hand to be sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts outside the U.S. Capitol at 10:55 a.m. Chicago time, it will be his second time taking the oath in 24 hours.
He had a private swearing-in on Sunday at the White House because of a constitutional requirement that the president be sworn in on Jan. 20. Rather than stage the full inauguration on a Sunday, the main public events were put off until Monday.
Obama begins the day worshiping at St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House. He will then take the oath again and deliver his inaugural address from the Capitol's west front overlooking the National Mall, where a crowd of up to 700,000 is expected to watch.
That is down significantly from the record 1.8 million people who jammed Washington in 2009 for Obama's first inauguration.
As Inauguration Day dawned and people streamed through the wintry cold toward the Capitol grounds, Washington was in security lockdown, with thousands of police and National Guard troops deployed, barricades up and Humvee military vehicles blocking major intersections.
Outside the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, an elaborate presidential viewing stand, encased in bullet-proof glass, awaited Obama and other VIPs
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This is the private swearing in ceremony.
Obama is picking at the scab of slavery
Do you suppose he believes what he is sayin? If only....
That was odd...Bidens oath was longer. Protect from enemies foreign and domestic.
LOL Sasha is Yawning!
Pop has her bored to tears LOL!
5.56mm
Now Obie is picking at Class divisions.
This speech is just awful.
I was going to watch, but I had to stick needles in my eyeballs instead.
What a downer...so negative, or is it just me?
Invocation: Damn Whitey
Oath of office (ceremonial): Obama foursworn
Inaugural address:
Ladies and gentlemen, the affirmative action president of the United States
Condescension
Malediction: Damn Whitey
Parade: On approaching the reviewing stand, each band shall play Ruffles and Flourishes, then Rogue's March
“we WILL respond to the threat of climate change”!!
What a bunch of clap trap.
Worst inaugural speech ever!
Get in son gun grabbing Barry.
It’s not you.
This speech suck diddly ucks.
I’m watching this on Al Jazeera, just for the vibe.
He seems to be suggesting that what the Founders really meant in the Declaration of Independence was that everybody should have a big-screen TV.
Forward to socialism! We are all equal! Equal equal equal!
Now he is yapping about gays.
and Immigrants and Newtown.
HE’S OH SO MERCIFUL TO US HIS CHILDREN! WE AMERICANS NOW HAVE A DEAR LEADER WE CAN CALL OUR OWN!
Now I’m off to vomit! :-(
“James regaled us with a good ol, Commie ballad by Woodie Guthrie
“America the beautiful”
Huh? It’s one of my favorite patriotic songs. What’s commie about it? And I’m pretty sure the song pre-dates Woodie Guthrie by a lot
“The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.” -President Barack Obama
Barf
Boy, {can I say that without being caller the R word?} his speech writers must have beatten the c@#p out of him cuz I haven’t heard one “I” yet. Of no, he just said it twice.
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