Inauguration Day!!! Our new President Barack Obama!

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A new page in the history of the United States of America.
A new day. Let everyone work together to make this the nation it could be, it should be...
It won't be easy, it won't happen overnight. But we can make it happen if we don't lose faith in ourselves and our nation.

Everyone out there that has been whining about our moral character, our work ethic, our school systems, family values and all our major issues: time to own up to yourselves. Take stock. Start doing something to help.
Remember that old adage "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." Yea well probably true!

Watched the inauguration and it went pretty much the way I expected it to.
President Obama's speech was just enough. As the pundits pointed out he said "we and us" not "I" for the most part.
It was a speech not only for Americans but for the world.
I think if this presidency doesn't work, it won't be because of Barack Obama it will be collectively all of our faults.

Eldest son was in DC and scored a ticket to the ceremony the last minute. He said it was really amazing, the spirit of everyone and the numbers of people. They were having fun afterwards skating on the pool without skates. lol.

We finally have a Leader after too many years.

One of the most powerful thoughts in a speech that I heard when I was a wee child and many replays afterwards was by JFK:

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

The statement applies today as it did back then... we must take responsibility for our country.
All countries must take responsibility for the world we all live in.

It was nice to see young children in the presidential family, the young people are the future of our country.

I feel very hopeful tonight.
We have the chance to change our destiny, I don't know if we can do it or not, but it is up to all of us.
We must hold our elected officials up to scrutiny, we must make difficult choices before it's too late.
We must work hard and fix our problems instead of business as usual which amounts to ignoring outcomes and crossing our fingers. We knew that didn't work when we were around 6 years old. We need to grow up. Quickly.

I'm proud of Barack Obama, Joe biden, and I won't forget Hillary Clinton either.
We can prevail.

G'night,

Laura
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Tomorrow!!! Finally it's tomorrow!!! Inauguration Day is finally here.

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G'bye George Bush not sorry to see you go.
Hello President Barack Obama, very happy to see you and good luck with the mess we're in.

Did catch up with all the news I missed yesterday due to my playing in the snow!
I'm heartened by the changing of the guard as are most of us who are really hopeful that President Obama will be better prepared to work with the war in Iraq and our economy. I think it's going to be tough.

They keep talking about Obama's 89% approval rate and how 79% of the people just "like" him and feel he'll be a good president.
The thing that keeps bothering me about these stats (aside from the fact that I took a lot of statistics courses and realize how sketchy they can be) is that there were quite a lot of people attending McCain/Palin rallies that seemed very unhappy with Obama and even a bit scared and angry about him. Where did these people all go off to and are they actually in the count?

Didn't get that much out of the Rhom Emanuel interview (NBC) or David Axlerod's (ABC) as far as what the state of the union might actually be or if the stimulus package will truly fix things. Rather anxious about the amount of spending we don't have. Isn't that what got us all into this mess in the first place? The interviews only brought more questions into my mind.
I want to be supportive and get behind fixing the future, but I'm a bit unsure about what will end up in the plan. I know Obama says there won't be any unnecessary pork but I'm having trouble believing it. How much will creating jobs cost and what kind of jobs will they be? Construction won't work for many that need jobs... what other jobs are we talking about?

What projects will be funded? I suppose if I trusted our elected officials (and it's really hard to do that these days) I'd feel that we'd have an efficient stimulus package. Lean and mean. The problem is that I think congress can't get out of it's own way for the most part. I do believe we have a short window of effectiveness for all this though. What to do, what to do...

I wonder if Palin is sitting in Alaska hoping Obama fails and the republicans will run her to come in and F things up further save the day. Nasty old media made this whole economic mess up to thwart their economic plans, wait, McCain/Palin didn't seem to have one did they?

Please put Bernie Madoff in jail along with anyone else like him. Are his assets frozen like mine would've been? I hope so.
Weasel of the worst kind and he doesn't even get it.

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Okay so I'm going to stop being worried, tomorrow is the start of the Barack Obama presidency and I along with the majority of this fine country will be watching it on the tv, computer and enjoying the start of a new administration.

Went out and took some nice snowy photos today I'll post them after President Elect Barack Obama IS President Barack Obama. Sounds good to me!

G'night,

Laura
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