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Jan. 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 20, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh, live from the EIB's Southern Command.
Great to be with you.
On an historic day in the United States of America, Barack Obama, the first black American officially inaugurated as president of the United States.
But the day has not been without its intrigue.
I haven't been able to get the details, but apparently President Bush was snubbed and people made some mocking comments to him as he arrived on the dais today where the oath of office was to take place later.
Still waiting for the details.
The story on this is being, I mean, the server is shut down that has the details on this story.
As you know, the Hillary Clinton-John Cornyn affair happened after the inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda where a lunch is going on.
Cornyn, the senator from Texas, holding up Hillary's confirmation as Secretary of State over her conflicts.
They were seen speaking heatedly to one another with Hillary grabbing Cornyn's arm with all of her might, which is considerable.
And not far away, Chelsea Clinton chatting it up with John McCain and his wife Cindy.
I'm also told, ladies and gentlemen, that Jimmy Carter snubbed the Clintons, refused to speak to them or acknowledge them upstairs before they all came downstairs to the dais.
And again, still waiting on the details of Bush being mocked as he approached the dais for the beginning of the ceremonies.
I had some people watching some of the networks for me because it's impossible.
I have been very curious what the drive-bys would say about, frankly, a very disappointing and depressing inaugural address.
It was disjoint.
It's very difficult to analyze, folks.
There wasn't any theme.
There was no lift.
There was no it's impossible to analyze it.
We have some soundbites coming up, but frankly, the poet and Reverend Joseph Lowry were the highlight of the day as far as I'm concerned.
Far more memorable things spoken by both.
Now, the poet, there weren't memorable things.
I mean, the whole thing was a gobbledygook, but it set the tone for the whole day.
And then Lowry came up and he was batting cleanup out there and knocked one out of the park in terms of defining for the rest of the country what the Democrat Party still remains all about, locked in the 60s.
However, David Rodham Gergen apparently was taken with the speech on CNN, so much so that he was rereading portions of it.
Now, my theory on this is that David Rodham Gergen was trying to improve it.
By rereading it, maybe he thought that it might sound better if he read it.
But I didn't see it.
I didn't hear it, but I don't think that's possible.
I mean, David Rodham Gergen, if it weren't for his varicose veins, he'd be a totally colorless guy.
So I can't imagine him reading Obama's speech, adding verve to it.
CNN also, Wolf Blitzer, quote, Obama's penmanship is really excellent.
So they are, there is nothing that they will criticize.
Also, I have noticed, ladies and gentlemen, that that's what Wolf Blitzer said.
Obama's penmanship is really excellent.
I guess no speech for the ages.
Well, he might have said it was speech for the ages.
I don't know.
But all I know, he said, remember, I got spies watching.
I cannot do this program and watch all these networks.
I do have Fox and MSNBC on in here.
Now, you know what I've noticed?
Neither network is reporting the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Normally, on your average news day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is always on the screen along with the SP, the NASDAQ.
You won't find it.
You won't find anything that might be interpreted as bad news.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down now over 200 points.
CNBC is, of course, they're a biddance network, and they are reporting the fluctuations in the Dow.
But yeah, we'll blitzer Obama's penmanship is really excellent.
I guess they got a close-up of when he signed the papers after the inaugural ceremony, making it official that he's president.
Here's, let's go to the top of the day.
This is Diane Feinstein introducing the Chief Justice.
It is my distinct honor to present the Chief Justice of the United States, the Honorable John G. Roberts Jr., who will administer the presidential oath of office.
Everyone, please stand.
Yes, my friends, she said oath with an F of office.
Now, the actual oath of office was botched out there.
I don't know who botched it.
I don't know if John Roberts got it wrong or if Obama got it wrong, but they should have put it on the teleprompter.
I, Barack Obama, solemnly swear.
I, Barack Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of President to the United States faithfully.
That I will execute faithfully the president, officer, president of the United States.
President of the United States faithfully.
And will, to the best of my ability, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
So help you, God.
So help me, God.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
Yay!
Amen.
So there you go.
That was the oath of office.
We bleeped out the middle name of Barack Obama in deference to Senator McCain, who saw to it that members of his staff were rebuked and let go.
Entire state parties were criticized for the use of Obama's middle name.
So we bleeped it out in deference to Senator McCain.
Yes, Mr. Snerdley.
Well, yeah, I started.
Did you hear Roberts ask him, so help you, God?
Yeah, it's in the oath.
Yes.
Roberts had to prompt Obama to say it.
It was, yeah, let's listen to it again if you want to nitpick this thing because we'll just.
It was a botched oath in a whole lot of ways.
Remember, you're going to hear bleeps of Obama's middle name in deference to Senator McCain here.
I, Barack Obama.
I solemnly swear.
I, Barack Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of President to the United States faithfully.
That I will execute faithfully the president, officer, president of the United States.
President of the United States faithfully.
And will, to the best of my ability, Best of my ability.
Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
So help you, God.
So help me, God.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
Yeah, you're right.
He did ask him.
When you ask a question, there must be some doubt about the answer.
Is that your point?
So help you, God, instead of so help you, God.
Okay, I got your point.
By the way, here's what happened.
The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded President Bush with Nana hey hey goodbye, the old song by Steam from the?
Uh from the 60s.
Nana na na, na na hei, hey goodbye.
That's what they were singing when president Bush was introduced.
Uh, it was extremely uh, disrespectful.
The crowd packed immediately below the podium received Bush in stony silence when he took his seat on the stage.
Surrounding the podium where Obama was scheduled to take the oath of office, the jeers this is this is, by the way uh from the?
Uh THE HILL newspaper.
The jeers are among the final public feedback Bush will receive as president, no condemnation.
No, i'm telling you folks, one thing hasn't changed in the course of human history and human nature, all of this is going to come back to bite these people.
This disrespect uh is going to come back and bite these people big time on.
You know it's in in nature's terms, not on ours, but it's going to come back and bite them.
Now, before we go to the break, we have?
Uh an excerpt here from president Obama's inaugural address there.
Remember yesterday, CNN had a lead story in which they suggested that the words in the inaugural address would be chisel, chiseled into marble.
So I it as I say.
It's a very disjointed speech.
It's impossible not to honestly analyze this.
It was.
It was just Clunker tried to be all things to all people, tried to have memorable line after memorable line.
As such, there were no memorable lines.
The audience was down and depressed.
There was no buzz here.
So the best we can do if you didn't hear it was let you hear some of the sound bites.
44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath.
The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace.
Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms a clear day in watching the case.
America has carried on, not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we, the people, have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents.
So it has been, so it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood.
Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.
Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices And prepare the nation for a new age.
Okay, that's the beginning of, okay, okay, we're not chiseling my words, we're chiseling his.
The beginning of Obama's inaugural address today in Washington, I'll complete with the words already in the process being chiseled into marble.
Back after this.
A little boombox music here in honor of the poet today, Elizabeth Alexander.
Well, the era of responsibility has officially begun.
It is underway.
Dow Jones Industrial Average down 225.
This is and has been Obama's market.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down about 80 or 90, I believe, at 12 noon.
It's now down 225.
In fact, stock indexes extended losses and hit session lows today after President Obama's inauguration speech provided few new details about measures to tackle a growing economic crisis.
I think people were looking for something, new plans, new hopes, said Joe Salusi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.
They didn't hear something new.
Session lows on Wall Street, the era of responsibility is underway.
Here's another sound bite from President Obama in his inaugural address, telling his supporters that they're going to have to work, which, of course, was not the deal they thought they had made.
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on earth.
Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began.
Our minds are no less inventive.
Our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year.
Our capacity remains undiminished.
But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed.
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
That work goes on every day outside of Washington, D.C., by the way.
People that make this country work are doing what they do each and every day.
But we were chiseling the words into marble there since CNN predicted yesterday that the words would be eventually chiseled into marble.
So we're just getting a head start back to the phones.
Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Great to have you here.
Oh, hey, dittos, and happy new year to the last man standing.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate that.
Okay, well, I just thought the speech was clipped.
It was jittery, and it was really hard to understand.
There was no real comprehensive, I don't know.
It just, I didn't like it.
Well, yeah, it was disjointed.
It didn't have a theme.
It was not very memorable.
There was no flow.
No.
Wishful thinking and platitudes, but there wasn't anything new in it.
No, there wasn't.
And I think he and Elizabeth Alexander both need speech writers.
Elizabeth Alexander.
I loved Elizabeth Alexander.
Everybody's missing the point about Elizabeth Alexander.
She was.
GPS, I get it.
I get the GPS thing.
No, but she was a brilliant pick.
She was a brilliant pick.
I mean, I don't think anybody who picked her intended her to epitomize the whole day as she did with that poem, but she saved the day.
She got people to focus on her poem rather than what they had just heard Obama not say.
Well, that's true.
Absolutely.
She and Lowry both hit grand slams.
The bases were loaded.
Oh, yeah.
Tina, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Lincoln, Nebraska.
Paul, your turn on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
How are you doing?
Fine.
Fine.
Very well.
Thank you.
You asked earlier for an interpretation, so I'm going to give you my interpretation of the dream.
And although I'm a good capitalist, I'm not going to ask for part of your kingdom as payment.
Wait, you mean the interpretation of the poem?
Yeah.
Well, it was a reference to our everyday individual lives, moving in a cacophonous stream of life.
I knew that.
Being our singular selves.
But the message, I think, was in the end was if we didn't move through life towards the light, which is love, she said that the light was love.
And until we all loved each other, that we could not live fulfilled lives.
And it falls into what I call now my wow factor, which Mr. Obama brought up himself, which is words only words, Rush, or the wow factor.
These are just words thrown together with very little meaning coming out at the end, and that's what it was.
Well, now wait a second out there, Paul.
Wait a second here.
Your interpretation of this poem is simply beautiful.
That until we all love one another and see the light, that we'll never make whatever you call it, we'll never have fulfilled lives.
And that's a pretty beautiful message.
What's wrong with love?
Well, I love love.
Mr. Snurdley asked me if I was a poet, and I told him, no, I'm not, but I have an ability to interpret dreams and poems, and this was my interpretation.
I found it funny, though, her reference to the lives laid down was solely a reference to the labor used to build this country, still holding that old affinity of this great country built on the shoulders of the people that had to do the work.
I'd like to know if you heard, if you heard me do my poem, The Car is on the road.
Yes, I did.
Well, how would you interpret my poem?
Well, we're all moving through life, but we're all responsible for how we're steering the wheel, I think.
How's that go?
Yeah, and some of us don't have child protection seats in the back endangering our children or driving gas guzzlers.
I did get a great chuckle out of you saying that.
Again, another thing of where we've got to protect ourselves from ourselves, I think.
But it was interesting.
You said I caught a brief glimpse of some Reagan-esque statements in his speech, but he stopped short of the Jimmy Carter sweater speech when asking for personal responsibility.
There was some Reagan-esque in there.
That's when I was a little optimistic.
I hope some of your reporters will also report back to you.
I thought from the very beginning that Hillary was scouring the crowd for Cornham.
She seemed to be intent on looking around for a while.
She is not happy today.
She is not happy.
You're absolutely right.
But she eventually found Cornyn in the lungee there in the rotunda.
Yeah, that's what you were reporting, and it's going to be interesting what comes out.
I did want to also say I thought Warren's speech really threw the gauntlet down to President Obama to, you know, the responsibility and everything is fine, but to also understand that there's a bigger force at work here to understand that and to heal the country up.
And I'll be thinking about this great country as I exhale one of my fine domestic-made cigars later in the day, Rush.
Well, I'm glad that you have this perspective on it.
And I'm really glad that you have the ability to interpret gobbledygook.
It's something that I have never, ever been able to do.
I recognize BS when I hear it, and I know it's BS, but the exact meaning sometimes eludes me.
Same thing with gobbledygook.
But in this case, it was perfect.
Elizabeth Alexander was ideal today.
She was ideally placed, and as was her content.
And remember, I mean, the rain that is falling on your head is making your hair wet unless you have an umbrella.
And if you have an umbrella, be careful not to stab someone accidentally with it.
That someone is child's parent.
Man, I love this group.
I love everything Earth, Wind, and Fire did.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is, this is about, you know, they say that the brevity is the soul of wit, William Shakespeare said.
I think the best analysis that I could offer you of the Obama speech today, why it didn't work, is that he tried to marry growth and fairness.
Now, I ask you, when talking about, say, a country, our economy, are growth and fairness compatible?
You had to really, really, really think about this.
Because in truth, growth and fairness are mutually exclusive.
The only exception is if everybody grows.
And we know that that doesn't happen.
It's not possible.
It cannot possibly happen.
So growth and fairness, if he had to find two things he was trying to marry in the speech, they'd be those two things.
But they cancel each other out because fairness, by definition, punishes people who are growing.
It's not fair.
People who are growing thus have more than people who don't.
That's not fair.
So to make things fair, you, according to your liberal, you try to lower the level of achievement of those who are growing and give what you take from those people to those who aren't, and therefore you have fairness or equality, which is misery spread equally.
This is just a shame.
Just a shame.
The economic downturn has led to the cancellation of several inaugural parties tonight in Washington.
Luke Russert's event at the rookery in Georgetown last night was canceled to the inaugural D.C. ball today at the old post office pavilion.
While security probably played a role in some cancellations, many fancy events were shuttered because they cost too much for people feeling financial strain.
One party goer at Sunday's Change the Game Gala at the Sports Club LA said she picked that event because the tickets were relatively cheap at $150.
This is a Washington Times story.
The Washington Post also reporting on this today.
While none of the official balls have been canceled, the unofficial ones that have been canceled or are on life support are the ones geared toward the average Joe Six Pack and to America's military veterans.
If you nabbed a ticket to one of the official balls sponsored by the presidential inaugural committee tonight, you're okay.
But some of the other high-profile parties have been canceled or scrambling to cut costs and sell last-minute dukets, leaving ball goers, disappointed or out in the cold.
The People's Ball at the Grand Hyatt announced a blue light special yesterday.
Tickets have been slashed $100 to $250.
The American Music Bowl, hosted by Deion Warwick, which planned two big-name events at the Marriott Wardman Park, was scrambling to sell enough tickets for the show to go on.
And it wasn't looking good last night.
The entertainment, George Clinton, Chuck Akan, The Temptations, that's for $450.
For $350, you get at the Urban Ball, you get Ludicrous, Fantasia, Cedric the Entertainer.
These things are on life support and may not make it.
Speculators try to charge too much, of course.
But nevertheless, you would think the people going in.
Well, take it back.
These are the people's balls, and they are the people that are hurting.
The Heroes Red, White, and Blue Ball at the Warner Theater with Jamie Foxx.
A rapper, the guitarist Slash, and the gospel star Donnie McClurkin scrapped its entire lineup and subbed in a band called Memphis Gold.
The American Music Ball was canceled according to a rep for Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, where it was found to have, or has been hosted.
It's just the balls are going flat.
The champagne is flat.
I mean, it's just while now, while this is happening, while the balls for the average guy have been canceled from the Wall Street Journal, a record number of private jets landed in the Washington area for the inaugural.
At a time of financial crisis and green correctness, many of the wealthy are choosing to arrive by private jet.
According to an article in Bloomberg, as many as 600 private jets were expected to touch down in Washington for the inauguration.
The runway at Washington, Dulles was closed Saturday to allow as many as 100 corporate jets to park.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said it expected a total of 500 small jets to land between January 16th and the 21st.
That would set a record topping the 300 private jets.
The airport accommodated for Bush's 204 inaugural.
Of course, my friends, flying private to a celebration of a populist pro-environment president is a bit like the Detroit executives jetting to Washington for bailout money, is it not?
Twice the number, a Democrat inauguration, twice the number of private jets.
And they all go to Dulles for a reason.
Ever since 9-11, Reagan National is right there.
You land at Reagan National, you're 10 minutes away from downtown and all of the hot spots.
But that's still got severe restrictions.
If you want to fly corporate into Dulles, you have to go through everything that everybody else goes through on a commercial flight.
Your pilots have to get background checked.
You have to go through a metal detector as the owner and the passengers on the plane, and they search you and treat you like a grandmother with a bomb.
You have to have a U.S. Air Marshal on the plane.
You have to take all the silverware off.
No knives, no forks, no box.
You practically have to take everything on the airplane off.
It has to be approved by the security people to put back on.
And then you have to promise a specific landing time, and they give you that slot.
Then you have to commit to a specific departure time.
And you've got a 30-minute window.
If you miss it, you have to stay in town 24 hours before you can leave.
If you fly corporate into Reagan National.
And of course, with traffic being what it is, if you miss your 30-minute slot to get out of there, the only way not to miss it, the guarantee, is to get there two hours early, which defeats the whole purpose of having a corporate jet.
So that's why they had to close a runway at Dulles to park all these things, because everybody goes there.
600 private jets after everybody ridiculed the poor GM and Ford and Chrysler execs for daring to show, what are these people going to the ball tonight?
These are the people paying for the balls.
All of these people that donated $100,000 to the PIC, the committee, you think they're going to ask for something back as a result?
You think the people flying in, they might need to be asking for bailout money, but some of them might be.
And I wonder if anybody chartered Bernie Madoff's jet.
You know, he put his jet on the charter market recently.
It's painted gray and black or some such thing.
Audio sound bites.
This afternoon, CBS TV, after the inauguration of Obama, Jeff Greenfield spoke to Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
Coburn says, I think everybody, no matter what your political persuasion, wants Obama to be highly successful in what he's attempting to do.
That's interesting because Rush Limbaugh, probably the most prominent conservative commentator in America, said just a few days ago, I know what he wants to do and I don't want him to succeed.
Are there among some conservatives feelings that if he succeeds, that's bad for our movement?
I don't think so.
You know, I would differ.
First of all, I'm not sure he knows what he wants to do.
Rush doesn't.
What he wants to do is to get us back stable economically.
He wants us to advance in education, which we haven't.
We need to.
And the Americans are pretty open.
You know, we label people.
We label him a progressive.
We label him as the most liberal U.S. Senator.
But I found every time I worked with him that he had tremendous common sense and he didn't abandon his principles to embrace mine.
Exactly.
He didn't abandon his principles to embrace yours.
And you I love Tom Coburn.
Tom Coburn makes more sense on responsible government spending than anybody in the United States Senate.
He and Jeff Sessions and Cornyn are probably McConnell are my favorites up there.
I love Coburn, but this doesn't make any sense.
And that's not exactly what I said.
What I have been saying is precisely, I don't know what he's going to do, but I'm pretty sure based on what his voting record is and what he says he wants to do.
His plan is socialism.
Spend, spend, spend, government responsible for people's jobs and so forth.
This is not what made the country great.
I have asked, why should I set aside my principles for this guy to succeed?
And by the way, this is not about, as who was it?
Greenfield, there's a slight premise in his question that's incorrect when he says, are there some conservatives feelings that if he succeeds, that's bad for our movement?
I don't care about the movement right now.
I care about the country.
I don't think that's that hard to understand.
I care about the country.
I care about what it was that made this country great.
And I fear that there are people who want to redefine various aspects of the way this government and country function.
I think they want to implement New Deal too.
It scares me.
But I'm not opposed to Obama succeeding if he embraces certain ideas I agree with.
But this just depresses me.
What he wants to do is get us back stable economically.
This is not how you do it.
What we're doing with bailouts and never-ending deficits is not how you get a stable economy.
He wants us to advance in education, which we haven't.
Good Lord, everybody knows this, that every president before him has wanted to improve education.
As though nobody else has.
We're spending more on education than we ever have.
And too many graduates of high school can't even read their own diplomas.
Spending on education is not the answer.
The answer to education is de-emphasizing the power of the teachers' unions.
And I'm sorry, they're going to be empowered even more than they are now.
The whole purpose of the public school system, as far as the left is concerned, is to use it to indoctrinate young skulls full of mush.
Oh, this is this is Tom Colburn.
I love this guy.
But in his own words, we label him as the most liberal U.S. senator, but I found every time I worked with him, he had tremendous common sense, and I didn't, and he didn't abandon his principles to embrace mine.
Well, they're a whole different set of principles, Senator Colburn.
Has Colburn not been listening to Obama?
Is this the same Coburn who backed McCain as a conservative?
We don't know what Obama wants to do.
What's incorrect here is Coburn, sadly to say, and not me, back in a second.
I am still in a state of shock, a state of stunned disbelief and dismay over Tom Colburn's reaction to Greenfield's question.
My comments are not the ones that have to be studied in order to be understood.
I don't know how much clearer about this I can be.
I do not want a collectivist New Deal president taking hold of this economy under the auspices of fixing it.
That's not success to me.
I do not want somebody who is going to have the federal government absorb more and more of the private sector on the premise that the private sector has failed here when it's the government that has failed.
Why do I want blankets just because this guy's father was black?
Is that why we're supposed to all hope for his success?
He wants to fix education.
I think it's a mutual admiration society, and these people are just into thinking, thanking each other, and they're working together.
My good friend, Senator Obama, he never compromised his principles in dealing with me, which is why Barack Obama always smoked me every time we got into arguments about legislation.
Bloomington, Illinois, Floyd, I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush?
Yeah.
Yeah, Megaditto, sir.
I appreciate that.
Okay, you wanted to talk about the, or Bo wanted me to talk about the speech.
And my feelings on the speech?
Yeah, yeah, that's why we took your call.
Okay.
I found it very boring.
You know, I wasn't following what he was saying, you know, and everything.
And I found myself a couple of times actually drifting off and not paying attention.
It was so boring.
And also, did you notice at the beginning?
Maybe I was hearing things, but at the beginning, was the crowd saying Obama, Obama, Obama.
Did they do that little chant thing when he stepped up to the microphone?
Before he got to the microphone, they were.
I don't know.
Yeah, when he was introduced and walking down the stairs before he took the oath.
Okay.
That's when I think I heard the Obama.
But that crowd, I guarantee that crowd was not satisfied.
That crowd.
Now, you're not going to hear any of this elsewhere in the drive-bys because the drive-bys today are about pictures.
And so you're going to see pictures of a swarm on the mall.
You're going to see a picture.
It's going to look like it was historical.
It's the best thing that's ever happened in the country and blah, I got time for one more before the break.
Chico, California.
Cheryl, I have one minute.
Make it count.
Good morning, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I was calling today to tell you I am in deep mourning over the death of democracy.
And the reason I say that is in following history, I've noticed that when times appear tough financially, people tend to follow blindly someone that speaks well.
They're like sheep.
They don't listen to the substance, but they listen to anyone that promises them to make their life better.
And what's happening with Obama and his supporters is that they're killing incentive.
What's the incentive to work and grow?
There is none.
I couldn't agree with you more.
However, this is not the death of democracy.
I am the doctor of democracy.
I will pronounce death.
Don't panic.
I will let you know when it's time for that.
It's gag time.
Here's Bob Shrum on MSNBC just moments ago.
The most prominent flavor of this was its evocation, its deeply moving evocation, both of the moment and of the enduring America.
There were lines in this speech that I think will get chiseled on granite.
And it had to be a little discomforting because it signaled generational change not only in terms of age, but in terms of a sharp break with policies.
Just this whole day is surreal, filled with omens.
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