Hail to the Chief is being played for the last time for Bush as the incumbent President of the United States. That song will be Barack Obama’s alone for the next four years. The National Mall is the most full it has ever been for an event like this — and it’s 25 degrees outside….
This is a guest post by filmmaker and author Eugene Jarecki. The video clip above is from a talk that Jarecki gave last Thursday at the New America Foundation on the topic, “The American Way of War.
Josh Marshall just announced the launch of TPMDC — another franchise in the growing Talking Points Memo new media empire. Matt Cooper will be at the helm of the newly launched ship as editor-at-large. More later.
Worth watching and pondering. Andrew Golis sent a good note this morning encouraging folks to look beyond MLK the icon. Golis writes: . . .the flip side of being a part of the American canon is that many of the more challenging ideas that don’t fit comfortably within the mainstream, have been conveniently forgotten.
(photo credit: Brian Greer) “That’s Obama!” No words can say more than this picture of excitement and hope in pure form.
Maureen Dowd threw a “Star Spangled Banner” party — so I wore a star spangled tie. My modest attempt at festive attire wasn’t matched by anyone else there. Maureen loved the tie and told me her sister had originally wanted everyone to come patriotically dressed.
Last night, through a massive crowd of people that David Brock and Media Matters for America assembled for an excellent Inaugural celebration at the Hirshhorn Museum, I thought I saw Norman Lear. And a tear came to my eye.
Well, I have made it through every corner of my schedule so far. And last night, we actually added an event — a drop by at the “Late Night Finance Committee Party” of the Presidential Inauguration Committee at the DC Convention Center.
I’ve been asked by quite a few readers what I’m going to do and attend this weekend. So, I’ll lay that all out here. But first let me say that there are a lot of great gatherings in DC — some really cool ones — that I was invited to that I just can’t attend….
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) submitted quite a number of written questions (pdf here) to Hillary Clinton to answer as part of the process of the Senate considering her nomination as Secretary of State.
