...a day makes!

Obama is president! At twelve noon today, Obama took the oath and became America's fourty-fourth president. And as you can see, the White House website has changed (at precisely one minute past noon!) along with it (it even looks like Obama's campaign website, which is still up. I've heard that all the government websites are going to be modeled after it. Orders of Obama, I presume). Who saw the inauguration today? I sure did, and it was pretty darn exciting haha =P. There were a crapload of people there, those aerial views of the whole front of the capitol building and across the river showed the whole place just filled with people, packed as closely together as sardines in minus temperatures just to be part of this historic day. When Obama was doing his oath, I was sort of like "=0" when he stumbled, but then later Lloyd Robertson revealed to us watching that the slip-up was due to a mishap on Chief Justice John Robert's part, not Obama's.

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Obama's inaugural speech was something like seventeen minutes long, and in it he spoke of many of the same things that he has spoken of these past months; hope, change, difficult challenges ahead and the renewal of America's hope and spirit. His speech today was written by him, too, instead of by his chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau. Surprisingly, his speech didn't seem any less convincing, which just goes to show that, perhaps, all of Obama's years at Columbia University and Harverd weren't for nought. This at least showed me personally that Obama isn't all hot air. For all we know, his enthralling speeches and unsurpassed rhetoric might have been all written by others behind closed doors, but his speech today showed me that he can in fact put his ideas of change and hope into words, and that he can truly "stand and deliver" (haha, I know that has nothing to do with the movie, just had to put that in there because it sounds so damn cool).

Anyways, Obama is currently stopping by at each of the ten official inaugural balls that are occuring right now. It's a true marvel that he's going to be able to get to all of them in one night, what with the Youth Ball, Obama Home States Ball, Joe Biden Home States Ball, Southern Inaugural Ball, Western Inaugural Ball, ok yes there are more but I shan't list them here. I just hope he gets enough sleep tonight and prepares himself for his first full day as President of the United States. I wonder what waking up in the White House for the first of many times feels like?

kamster