Inauguration Day

[valarltd]

I didn't get to watch it. I worked today.
But I heard Obama take the Oath of Office and I choked up.
I sent a little prayer skyward. He's gonna need all the help he can get.

The speech was good. Now to see how much we live up to. (and uh, yeah, there is an option beside Abrahamics, Hindu and Non-believers)

I do not envy him. He is in much the same position as John Lackland was in 1200. A bankrupted country, disasterous foreign wars, political and domestic enemies, a populace already stretched to the limit.

Hopefully, he will be wiser than John. The lack of 17 children (5 by his wife) shows that already.

It will be interesting. Change always is, even if it's not comfortable.

Comments

[timewalker.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was just jazzed to hear non-believers included for once. I'm sure there was a lot of debate over that line - how long to spend on it, who to include, etc.
Hopeful, but watchful.

[celestinenox]

Eh, yeah, but there's no way he could have included all the religions... and I seriously doubt even he could have gotten away with including "Pagans" in his speech. Unfortunate, but at least he proves to be as open-minded as it's possible to be as a politician... which, before Obama, I would have said wasn't very. Hope, indeed.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Thing is, he did it in pairs.
"Christian and Muslim. Jew and Hindu."
"Those of other faiths and non-believers" would have been a nice parallel.

[celestinenox]

True.

[jlm121.livejournal.com]

I listened to it on the radio and found myself weeping through most of it. I give him credit for what he did, he could have said more, but I was deeply struck by the idea of "patchwork" that was worked through out the speech. I am pretty much praying to whatever forces will listen at this point that he gets all the help he needs.