Happy Inauguration Day

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הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה לַמְּלָכִים וּמֶמְשָׁלָה לַנְּסִיכִים, מַלְכוּתוֹ מַלְכוּת כָּל-עוֹלָמִים, הַפּוֹצֶה אֶת-דָּוִד עַבְדּוֹ מֵחֶרֶב רָעָה, הַנּוֹתֵן בַּיָּם דֶּרֶךְ וּבְמַיִם רַבִּים נְתִיבָה, הוּא יְבָרֵךְ וְיִשְׁמֹר וְיִנְצֹר וְיַעֲזֹר וִירוֹמֵם וִיגַדֵּל וִינַשֵּׂא לְמַעְלָה אֶת-אֲדוֹנֵנוּ הַפְּרֶזִידֶּנְטְ שֶׁלְּאַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית, בַּרַּךְּ בֶּן בַּרַּךְּ אוֹבַּמַא, יָרוּם הוֹדוֹ. מֶלֶךְ מַלְכֵי הַמְּלָכִים בְּרַחֲמָיו יְחַיֵּהוּ וְיִשְׁמְרֵהוּ וּמִכָּל-צָרָה וְיָגוֹן יַצִּילֵהוּ, וְיַדְבֵּר עַמִּים תַּחַת רַגְלָיו וְיַפִּיל שׂוֹנְאָיו לְפָנָיו וּבְכֹל אֲשֶׁר יִפְנֶה יַצְלִיחַ. מֶלֶךְ מַלְכֵי הַמְּלָכִים בְּרַחֲמָיו יִתֵּן בְּלִבּוֹ וּבְלֵב כָּל-יוֹעֲצָיו וְשָׂרָיו רַחֲמָנוּת לַעֲשׂוֹת טוֹבָה עִמָּנוּ וְעִם כָּל-יִשְׂרָאֵל. בְּיָמָיו וּבְיָמֵינוּ תִּוָּשַׁע יְהוּדָה וְיִשְׂרָאֵל יִשְׁכֹּן לָבֶטַח וּבָא לְצִיּוֹן גּוֹאֵל וְכֵן יְהִי רָצוֹן, וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן.

11:00
Don't like Michelle's dress. Too corn-colored. Also, thought frigid Laura should have walked along side her when they entered the capital.

11:03
Just flashed a shot of a sign reading "ChangeD!"

11:07
They're saying Obama wrote the speech himself. Mostly. That's guts. Everyone is expecting this speech to be off-the-charts good. I don't know how BO can live up to that.

11:08
Things I'm loving: Those made-in-America caddies making the trip down PA. Blvd. And the purple scarf around old man Bush's neck! But wow, does Dan Quayle look old. (Is Jimmy Carter's wife wearing a turtleneck? Bill Clinton's yellow scarf looks like an undercooked egg.)

11:15
CNN anchor: "Obama wanted to meet with those brilliant minds and, uh, men who preceded him as president" HA! You can almost hear her saying in her head "... brilliant men... wait what about W?"

11:19
Introducing the former presidents now. I will give 1 million DovBear dollars to Yaakov Menken's favorite charity if they boo W.

11:25
Still no W, but the Obama kids just entered. Adorable. Let's hope they can go 8 years without getting into any public trouble....

11:33
Ok they didn't boo him, but no real cheering either. W looked bothered. I bet he wishes he was back on the fake ranch. It is a little sad that poor Dick Cheney hurt his back, but he actually looks meaner in a wheelchair. UPDATE Boos were audible on NBC. Why isn't Bush wearing a brightly colored scarf? Did he ignore that memo, too?

11:41
Hey! Did Beohner come out twice??? (He did!) (Is that traditional?)

11:43
Barak H. Obama! (Gutless!!!!!) But look at the crowd go nuts!! Oh! Bah! Ma! (Marine band is playing something awful, though.)

SHOW TIME!

11:47
Fienstein was boring but fast. Now that fraud in the frat boy goatee is pretending to pray. Ick I don't like hearing the Shma come out of Wthat mouth. Plus, he added a word.

Oh, good. Now, he's telling us what God thinks. Here's what I think: SHUT UP.

11:50
Wait. Did he let a little hate trickle off his tounge as he sneered the names of Obama's daughters? I heard a little Archie Bunker, there, as in, " Boy these names sure are foreign." He spit out Malia and Sasha's names as if we was speaking Klingon.

11:53
Okay, Aretha singing is all the invocation I need. Sweet. Think her hat will look good in pictures a hundred years from now?

11:56
GO JOE! (Did Diane actually introduce someone to introduce someone? Oy!)

11:58
High class concert music playing. I think that's a nice touch, too. Can't be easy to keep your fingers moving fast when it is 30 degrees

TWO MORE MINUTES and Cheney joins the millions of unemployed.

12:03
Notice the Judge isn't wearing that Priates of Penzance stripe his predecessor wore

Well this is off to a bad start he's flubbing the oath. Wait for the wingnuts to claim it didn't count!

Deal closed. Happy dance now allowed.

12:07
Bush just got thanked. Crowd golf clapped. Bush looks sulky.

12:11
This sounds too much like every other speech he's given. He's repeating the true, yet inspiring jive about how hard our ancestors worked. Mostly we-can-do-it(!) plablum so far. Blah.

12:14
Did he just pause for applause that didn't come? Liek what he said about govt. doing its work in the open. Oy. Now he just paused for appluase again and was rewarded with luke warm tapping. He's dying up there.

12:18
Okay he's getting a little better. His delivery is good.... Crowd starting to applaud more.

Did he just say "No torture?" What kind of crazy lunatic did we just inagurate?

12:23
Rhetoric starting to soar now.... He does look presidential.... This may be the first grown-up speech a President has given in 8 years.

12:26
Ok, he gets a B+ on the speech. Not terrible. Not great. After I read it, maybe I'll have more to say about what he said. Here comes the poet.

12:29
Boy. Does. She. Suck.

12:32
Another prayer?! The hell?

So far: He's not as bad as goatee boy.

12:37
Liked the concluding rhyme. This guy had style. Okay. No more party. Obama has some work to do. Oh, and God bless America.

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