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From: JB
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: [WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED] There's pride and joy for a day our country has never seen before
 
On the contrary; this is the darkest hour in the darkest day of the darkest  year in our entire history as a so-called "black" man, born of a white  woman's womb, living in a white house takes charge of the once greatest  nation on earth and no one knows anything at all about this person who has  accomplished exactly nothing of note ever that would warrant his ascent to

this place of steep responsibility.  Fools all  of you who would put your  trust in a total unknown who refuses to expose his past or indeed any thing  at all about himself.  No pride and joy here.  Only stark disappointment and  apprejhension.Can you imagine:  going from NO executive experience  whatsoever to President of the United States of America?  I know it's just a  servants job but nevertheless.  Makes one wonder if many Americans brains  arer devolving.  Maybe it's the flouride in the water or CIA mind control or  some such thing?

JB

 
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From: DP

Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:28 PM

Subject: [WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED] There's pride and joy for a day our country

has never seen before

There's pride and joy for a day our country has never seen before

Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat writes from Washington, D.C, that the inauguration of Barack Obama is no canned, bureaucratic event. What it is is a joyous street party — probably the largest pure celebration in American history.

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Danny  Westneat - Seattle Times staff columnist

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2008647555_danny20m.html

WASHINGTON — Black man in the White House.

I know that this fact — the history-making part of what's happening today — has been obsessively repeated since November. So it's scarcely worth mentioning that today America anoints its first president who is not a white man. Right?

Yet across the capital on Monday, hundreds of thousands of people from America and around the world thronged the National Mall here and could talk of little else.

"Black man in the White House!" the afternoon chant went up in Lafayette Square, across the street from the president's home. Blacks, whites, Asians — whoever happened to be around — joined in. The chant turned into a cheer.

This inauguration of Barack Obama is no canned, bureaucratic event. It's also no protest or debate or political convention. What it is is a joyous street party — probably the largest pure celebration in American history.

I have never seen so many people just wandering around smiling, laughing and singing as I saw yesterday.

One was Robert Radford, 79, who lives on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill. In 1946 when he was in the Army, he was reprimanded for talking back to a German prisoner. His commanding officer said it was because Radford is black and the German was white.

"He told me to never forget it, and I haven't," Radford said. "I have never felt 100 percent American."

This is one accomplished citizen. He's served in two wars, worked as a chemist, got a Ph.D. in educational administration and was principal of Seattle's Lowell Elementary. Yet he still never quite belonged. Never fully felt like one of us.

"Not 'til now," Radford said, misting up. Then he laughed and pumped his fist.

I don't think I've ever been to such a positive political gathering, with people from around the world.

People are so done with President Bush they don't even seem interested in bashing him anymore.

"It's not about the last eight years," said Lt. Greg Bennett, 53, a Seattle firefighter who was photographing the Capitol. "It's about the youth, the vitality of what's coming. That's why I'm here."

I ran into David McDonald, a Seattle lawyer and uber-Democrat who serves on the Democratic National Committee. He said Obama has been so inclusive he's damped down the anger at Bush.

"Still, I will say I'm looking forward to that last wave from the White

House lawn and the helicopter lifting off," McDonald said.

No, Washington, D.C., is Obama Nation now. In every way. You can buy Obama Hennessy "44" cognac here. Obama cookies, shaped like his head. A guy was even selling "Obama Condoms" on the Mall. $5. "Hope Is Not Enough," the packages said.

Everyone has known this historic day was coming for 2 ½ months. As President Lincoln famously said in his second inaugural address, "so many public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase" that "little that is new could be presented." (He was talking about the Civil War.)

But the electricity here makes it feel like they all just got the news. They need to say it, again and again. Maybe to make themselves believe it.

Black man in the White House. Sworn in on a National Mall that used to be a  slave market.

I also heard this phrase about a thousand times: "Never thought I'd see the day."

Now today is that day. How often does that happen in a lifetime?

*Danny Westneat: 206-464-2086 or dwestneat@seattletimes.com.*

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DP