What does this Inauguration mean to you?

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The chance for a better tomorrow…

Claire, 33 from Brooklyn, NY US

I’ll keep my guns, freedom, and money. You can keep your change.

Tim, 20 from Rochester, NY US

A chance to save and serve millions of lives and create more jobs for today.

Imran Siddiqui, 36 from Alexandria, VA US

Dear fellow Americans,

There are so many good thoughts running through my mind as I watched a recent video on President-Elect Obama and coupled with his article to his daughters, I am so proud to be an American. I feel very proud, fortunate, empowered, passionate and hopeful of the upcoming change. My fellow Americans, this is a critical time and this is only the beginning. We need to take this positive outlook and see how we can contribute. Whether it is through volunteering or working in public service, we need to work together again, similar to the Civil Rights Movement, we need to contribute to the change and not look to the government as we have done in the last four decades.

Fred, 33 from New York, NY US

I think most abortions happen in the black community and our new president has an incredible amount of influence in this area. I hope he address it in defense of the unborn children who have no-one to defend their rights as Americans.

I may have been a blob of cells at one point - then something happened where I was not a blob anymore. Kill the blob then you have killed me.

John, 34 from Seattle, WA US

It’s a heart-warming story. It will generate great copy the world over. When the honeymoon is over, what will we think of our President then? The Onion was right. Mr. Obama has the worst job in the world right now. What I have hope for is that his pragmatism is able to do something at all about the United States and her posture economically, culturally and politically. I’m not holding my breath.

D, Atlanta, GA., 31 from Atlanta, GA US

This inauguration means a man without a record of substantive contribution and no experience managing an enterprise of substantial scope will take the helm of a ship of state. In his untested hands, America’s enemies will either find a shadow of Bush or of Clinton – he is neither man. If of Bush, more Americans die sooner at the hands of terrorists. If of Clinton, more Americans die later at the hands of terrorist states.

Jim Henderson, 50 from Warren, NJ US

This inauguration means the end of dictatorship and the re-birth of a country that will respect international laws

Anonymous from Philadelphia, PA US

NASA’s New Budget

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Barack Obama = King Arthur But Waaaay Cooler

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Inaugural Insight

  • The inauguration for the first U.S. president, George Washington, was held on April 30, 1789 in New York City.
  • Should January 20 be a Sunday, the President is usually administered the oath of office in a private ceremony on that day, followed by a public ceremony the following day.
  • Immediately following the oath, the bands play four ruffles and flourishes and "Hail to the Chief", followed by a 21-gun salute from howitzers of the Presidential Salute Battery.
  • The inaugural celebrations usually last ten days, from five days before the inauguration to five days after.
  • Since Thomas Jefferson's second inaugural on March 4, 1805, it has become tradition for the president to parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.
  • According to tradition, in the first inaugural, President Washington added the words "so help me God" when reciting the oath, although there is no contemporary evidence of this.
  • In 1977, Jimmy Carter started a new tradition by walking from the Capitol to the White House, although subsequent presidents have only walked part of the way for security reasons.
  • The War of 1812 and World War II forced two swearing-ins to be held at other locations in Washington, D.C.
  • The new President assumes power at noon on January 20th, regardless of whether or not he has actually taken the oath of office.
  • There is no requirement that any book, or in particular a book of sacred text, be used to administer the oath, and none is mentioned in the Constitution.

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