Meh. They haven’t been waiting their whole lives for a $150,000,000 dollar party…
I agree it’s excessive when he’s preaching that it’s time to buckle down.
$180 million - $50 Million = $130 million. Still a lot
And I didn’t need this event. Why did I need to see a Golden Globes or Grammy style event to start a new Presidental term. As mentioned, the change he could have started with is the way the inauguration was done. No one was OWED this. I lost a ton of money in the market and you don’t see me saying that he OWED this ceremony to me. I’d rather see the money put towards fixing our debt. African Americans aren’t OWED this. But yet, as mentioned the black messiah hasn’t done anything yet and has an 80% approval. Support is only behind him because of his color, even though he is only half black?
I don’t understand why 2 million people wanted to stand in a sea of people to just say they were there. But yet people are so lazy to do anything on a smaller level to help out their comminity, economy, etc. The people there made no impact other than filling a crowd. I don’t know about those people, but I seem to recall that I have a job and a responsibility that made it so I could not even go there if I wanted to.
Instead of going to Washington to say you were there, help at a food panty, homeless shelter, etc. Easier and more rewarding.
I wish I was there to sell Obama tshirts. That would make up for the killing in the market that got me. I’d be all set selling shirts to the sheep.
Hey it helpped the economy a little. :lol:
Again you can blame Washington to producing useless uninspiring rejects for the last 20 years for the popularity of Obama.
Although I did say something similar about Bush in 2004 and I was right. So who knows…
Curious as to where this will lead. History of what happens when people worship a leader without knowing anything about them is rather frightening. Hopefully that fear isn’t well founded.
All hail king Obama?
The popularity of Obama has everything to do with the color of his skin and the reaction people had to Bush/GOP politics.
His presidency will go down in history as the greatest marketing campaign any business has ever known.
The majority of that cost is the security and services required to have millions of additional citizens pour into the Nation’s capital.
You didn’t need it because you already hate him, but for most other people he is a person of hope to turn the country around and get it back to where it should be.
And Obama is pushing for a lot more volunterring. AKA Kennedy style. I’ve already started to see the commericals for it.
so will our checks be in the mail today?
Didn’t you read the first post about keeping this thread to intelligent comments? Because last I checked you weren’t a psychic.
PS: I didn’t vote for him because he was Black, I know that would be a comforting rational for why the republicans lost. It probably had more to do with the Republicans picking Bush as their best and brightest example of the party for eight years, then picking a dinosaur as his successor. You had your time in power and fucked it up.
And no, I don’t hate him. I just feel that he is not experienced to be president yet. Given more time, maybe.
But as mentioned, he ran the greatest marketing campaign all on open promises. If he comes through, then I will admit he did good. But as of now, I have seen nothing that he has actually done to make me think different.
People are holding on to his promises, and are going to get pissed off when he doesn’t follow through. He’s going to get experience the hard way.
And as I stated, if McCain or anyone else spent that insane amount of money on the inauguration, I would have stated the exact same thing. And I didn’t NEED a big inauguration party. What does it honestly prove or give me other than more promises and some ticker tape and party baloons. Waste is waste.
Then he will displace George Washington, he did quite the sales and acting job. No disrespect to George here, he was a great politician/leader and one we needed at that time.
I like President Obama but the party does seem excessive
I know why you voted for him.
I could care less about the color of the mans skin…hell he could be a woman for all I care.
My problem with the ENTIRE thing is the fanfare and reaction people are giving him before he has done ANYTHING.
It is an example of exactly what is wrong with today’s America.
Thank you.
And you’re surprised? They voted him into this office without really doing much his entire career.
We elected David Archuleta president. “He’s so cute. He’s so cool. Lets vote for him!”.
Maybe the excitement is so high because the bar has been lowered so far.
OK who would have been better?
Really? He’s been president for 2 and a half hours
I am never surprised by anything America as a society can do…good or bad.
I am fearful of future generations and what their ideals are currently and will be in the future.
But we have gone off topic…so I respectfully digress.
Giuliani, but he ran the dumbest primary race in history. 
I remember hearing something about this on NPR.
Obamas campaign manager had a lot of supports that used the internet to arrange meetings and gatherings to promote him.
His manager had hopes that they could form an army of sorts that could effect change on a small and local scale.
I wish I remembered more about it.
At the time I heard it, all I was thinking was that there are a bunch of people on line that will blindly do what they are asked without needing to think for themselves.
I think this was it.
And more I found while looking for the above.
Lois Romano: What are you going to do with the vast grass-roots network you built – to harness that power?
David Plouffe: It is going to be a challenge, because it is much different than a political campaign. . . . For those people that want to get involved on issues out in their community, we want to try to figure out the best way to try and help facilitate that. Now, the great thing about people these days is they don’t really wait for your lead, they’ll go out there and do it on their own. We’ll have to determine which legislative initiatives are going to require the full weight of the grass roots.
Isn’t that why a majority of the people voted for Kennedy?