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Obama quartet admits faking performance at inauguration
Times Online (U.K.) ^ | January 23, 2008 | Philippe Naughton

Posted on 01/23/2009 8:18:46 AM PST by Schnucki

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To: SJSAMPLE

THe One could, and should, have moved the ceremony inside like Reagan did. Of course then the pompousness wouldn’t have been evident for all to see, so that really wasn’t an option.


61 posted on 01/23/2009 9:44:13 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: dusttoyou
If you want to rant and rave against a British newspaper reporting temperature (anywhere in the world) in Celsius ...

< shrug >

Go ahead.

Make yourself look like an idiot.

Just don't say you weren't warned.

62 posted on 01/23/2009 9:44:50 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: dmz
Those guys play rare and expensive instruments. Do you know what the cold would do to those masterpieces?

Are you saying that the musicians were faking the performance with props?

63 posted on 01/23/2009 9:49:13 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: GoCards

What else is faked!”

NObama and his entire campaign and this whole administration!!

Sure wish I could tell you that soon we will all wake up and it will be like Suzanne Pleshette and Bob Newhart at the end of the Bob Newhart TV show. It was all a dream!!


64 posted on 01/23/2009 10:18:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Schnucki

Fake Music for a Fake President. Appropriate.


65 posted on 01/23/2009 10:22:28 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated ("...there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced—the budget and the liberals." R Reagan)
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To: Schnucki
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66 posted on 01/23/2009 10:28:31 AM PST by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
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To: subterfuge

Are you saying that the musicians were faking the performance with props?
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I have no direct knowledge of what transpired up there on stage, and even tho’ I am but a lowly local musician, I always carry backups to our gigs. So I wouldn’t call them props, just the 2nd string (so to speak). My Gibson mandolin is gonna stay in the case if the conditions are not right for its use, it’s why I didn’t sell the Tacoma.


67 posted on 01/23/2009 11:02:09 AM PST by dmz
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To: SJSAMPLE
Right you are! I read something this morning in which Aretha said that the cold had really affected her voice when she sang, God Bless America on Tuesday. However on a smoother note, the milliner who created her hat, is being inundated with requests for it.
68 posted on 01/23/2009 11:15:07 AM PST by Mila
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To: dmz

Wow, being a musician (woodwinds) I guess that’s the reason I have issue the the whole thing. Why risk playing very delicate, very rare string instruments in the cold in the first place? If you shouldn’t play a rare cello in the cold, why even risk having it outside. Did they think global warming would shine on DC for the day and it wouldn’t be cold, in January? Didn’t matter because the Obama Administration is just like the man himself. All show and no substance!


69 posted on 01/23/2009 12:06:01 PM PST by ushr435
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To: ushr435

I’d wager their backup instruments were on stage. Being just a lowly local musician (at least we write our own stuff), I carry backup instruments to every gig. I’m usually thinking about strings breaking, but having played an outdoor gig in the spring, and our noon slot saw the thermomter not yet at 60 degrees, the Gibson mando stayed in the case and I played the Tacoma instead.


70 posted on 01/23/2009 1:04:35 PM PST by dmz
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To: cydcharisse

I bet Obama is a typical Liberal. They can dish it out but they can’t take it.

President Bush proved to be tremendously resillient, even when we disaqgreed with him.

Obambi won’t get through his first term without going postal.


71 posted on 01/23/2009 1:09:54 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GoCards
What else is faked

Dreams of My Father.

-PJ

72 posted on 01/23/2009 1:11:55 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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