From Flickr Photo Share

"I progress so that I may return.":  Barack Obama takes us back to the future.  It was Nietzsche who said that one must go back ,  must regress and descend before the ascension and the en avant,  the forward march could begin:  "retrograde,  but not retarded".  America is in this retrogression to the future;  "both ascension and decline appear at the great historical moment and owe their origins to the same causes." .   As  the song played at the Inaugural Ball for the first dance  -    "At Last My Love Has Come Along"  -    Obama "gave the world assurance of a man"  :  and  every Democrat heart must have sang,  knowing in that moment that  Barack is the beloved.    Shepherd Fairey's poster says all I have just spoken here,  with out words:  His images say exactly what I have set forth.

Roberts Flubbed Oath, and Not Obama

         


"I,  Barack Hussein Obama. . . "With all the talk circulating about Obama having flubbed the presidential oath,  it was really Chief Justice Roberts,  who confused Obama with his odd wording and reversing of order.  I would wager Roberts had a Freudian resistence about the person he was swearing in. Of course,  right wing pundits are now questioning if such a flubbed oath is constitutional.  (Yawn)

OBAMA'S IN

OBAMA'S IN!  Inaugurated 44thPresidentPicture courtesey of Flickr Photo Sharing,  Jan 20,  2009

Although the Chief Justice messed up Obama on the presidential swearing in,  a most solemn oath, Obama's revolutionary speech was electrifying,  and he looked prince-like as he strode down Pennsylvania Av,  waving at cheering crowds,  as some wept for joy.  And so now it begins,  the page is turned. . . God Bless and Keep  Barack Obama. 

Pre-Inaugural Obama: "Yours are the voices I will take with me. . . "

400,000 crowd the western end of the mall,  with pre-Inaugural festivities under way.  According to reports,  the pre-Inaugural mood has been jubulant with  the genders,  races and ages mingling joyously and cooperatively.  Obama has stressed that those who elected him are what gives him the greatest  hope to face the challenges awaiting him.  "Your voices are the ones I will carry with me. . . "  he told  excited and cheering crowds as he paid tribute to Martin Luther King. 

Ten official inaugural balls will be held,  as well as several unofficial ones, and numerous parties held by state comitteess and private citizens across the nation.  Many schools and Universities will have students watch the televised event.

From history,  at bottom,  Woodrow Wilson's Pre-Inaugural events included a Women's
Suffrage parade.


(And an addendum of ramblings,  which may seem unrelated to Change but are in truth at the crux of it:  To take a break from the pre-Inaugural festivites,  I flipped the channel,  and wound up on Tru TV's Beach Patrol.  Someone is being issued a citation,  and asked to sign it.  They ask,  "And if I don't sign?"  "Then you go to jail,  that's what."  the cop answers arrogantly.  This massive build up of the "crime industry"  constitutes a real violation of civic liberites, and is the fault of both parties.  Is there Change in the offing here?  I was at a Joe Biden rally pre-election,  and Biden was speaking of the Change platform to cheering crowds.  Then he said,  "We intend to build up the police departments accross our nation"  and an awkard silence fell on the crowd.  I did not miss this.  Also,  in trawling the internet last night,  I came upon a book about Susan Atkins,  one of Manson's girls convicted in the brutal Tate-Bianca slayings of 1969.  It was about how she became a demure and patriotic Christian in prison, and was entiled ,  Susan Atkins:  Child of Satan,  Child of God.  Right:  same old,  same old.  From Manson to Christ.  Anything but a free and thinking individual.  Millions are like this, and that is why we never get real "Change".  

Garden State Democrats Hosting Inaugural Party at Holiday Inn in Edison

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee is inviting fellow Jersey Dems to an Inaugural Party at the Holiday Inn at Raritan Center in Edison, Tues.,  Jan. 20,  @ 7 PM,  Tickets $50

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Spike Lee, Sting, Anne Hathaway, Elvis Costello: Celebrities Line Up for Inauguration Day

Celebrities line up for Inauguration; Obama still wows us

4 Million Expected to Descend on Capitol for Inauguration as Obamamania Grips US

Salon.com tells how Obamamania has townhome rentals at 40K for Inaugural week.  If that ain't a sign of these Obamamanic times,  I don't know what is!

Hoping to give Livestream from Inauguration

As I will be in Washington, DC for Obama's Inauguration, I am hoping that I can give some livestream of the events, which can be placed on this blog space for anyone who might be interested.

I consider it the highest honor to be able to attend, and that Barack Obama truly will be our 44th President, is still casting all in a pink glow of surreal feeling, that "everything is new, and yielding"; and that Change indeed is upon us.