Inauguration Speech Minute Updates




Here I am at school watching the Inauguration.  I will be logging notes throughout this special moment in time leading up to the final speech.  This is being written for my own personal reference but I'd imagine someone will wind up reading this.

ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL

10:16 AM:  Hilary and Bill Clinton have arrived at the White House while CNN reports that George Bush Sr.  trails along.  CNN:  "Age has taken a toll on former President Bush."  Bush looked to walk at a very slow pace.  

10:18 AM:  U.S. Capitol - Jimmy Carter, Presidents Bush, and Clinton are being seated on the platform for the inauguration.  

10:26 AM:  Michelle Obama and children are introduced to the public.  I've been to the White House before for a Fourth of July celebration when I was younger but I've never seen anything like this.  If you thought the turnout for the victory speech in Chicago was something, this will blow you away.  CNN reports that this may be the most watched footage ever in the history of television.  

10:36 AM:  Soon to be former Vice President Dick Cheney is shown entering on a wheelchair.  Apparently he twisted his back while moving boxes into his new home in Virginia.  I was just notified that Obama will be sworn into the Presidency using the same very Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn into.  The last President to have that honor -- no one.  The Lincoln Bible was pulled from the library of the White House.  Amazing.

10:42 AM:  Obama is the fifth youngest person elected President.  The crowd is riled up and extremely excited.  "Ladies and Gentleman..."  

10:45AM:  Obama enters the Platform.  He is sporting a red tie.  Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Join Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, opens the ceremony.  

10:49AM:  Rick Warren provides an invocation speech.  It was a very emotional speech.  It is too bad the satellite signal tends to fail often.  

10:55AM:  Aretha Franklin sings America (My Country, Tis of Thee)

10:58AM:  Joe Biden is currently being sworn into the Vice Presidency.  It is done.  We have our new VP!  Although it would have been nice to see his eyes while he was being sworn in.  Sometimes you can see the sincerity in people when you look straight into their eyes.  

11:01AM:  Yo-Yo-Ma cellist along with several other musical composers are performing a special piece of music to Barack.  It is a composition with the cello, violin, clarinet, and piano.  It had a very soft sound to it.  

11:06AM:  Crowd is wild.  Barack is currently being sworn into the Presidency.  It is done.  President Obama fumbled a few of the words but you can see how nervous he was.  Who wouldn't?  My peers around me all laughed but were very receptive to the calling of our new President.  Congratulations President Obama, you are now the 44th President of the United States.

11:09AM:  Obama begins his speech.  

11:29AM:  Wow.  That was something.  He reminds of me Martin Luther King.  It feels good again to be an American.  

Time to get lunch.   

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