Inauguration with CNN.com with Facebook (Live Blog)

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If you’re new to the blog world, when we blog- live, it simply means that you need to keep checking back on the page because the post will update every few minutes or so.  By update, of course, I mean there will be new content to read based on CNN’s online coverage of the “swearing-in”.  No spell check either, Cool?

9:41: Thomas Rohe (iRepoter) via tele; we learned that Obama is not in every black SUV motorcade.  It’s cold and your delirious so it’s okay to believe what you want; it will help keep you going. Quoting Gerald Ford, Mr. Rohe mildly declares, “Our long national nightmare is over.” Cute.

Actual quote from President Ford while taking his oath of office after Watergate, fitting don’t you think, “… My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.  Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.”

9:50: Obama leaves morning worship in what I assume is his armored, missile wielding Escalade limo. Boss.  Just to open the door, the SS had to bend down and lift with his legs.  Oh and the exchanging of pleasantries by the President and President-Elect before the traditional coffee or tea was awkward.

10:02: If you’re at 12th and E attempting to get into the swearing-in, then think again.  You waited until virtually the last minute, and now you’re in a line 3 blocks long.  You didn’t read the DCist because if you did, you would have known to get in your seat or standing position by 9 a.m..

10:08: Dignataries arriving en masse.  CNN cuts back to the studio to give us a rundown of the nitty gritty.  So far, I’m impressed with CNN.com via Facebook’s coverage.  Are you watching? If so, on what medium?

10:12: The inauguration coverage by CNN is sponsored by Cisco, in case you were wondering.  First commercial thus far, so I’m not complaining.

10:14: CNN interviews Randi Zuckerberg (sister of Mark Zuckerberg and also rich): “100k people updated their status (per minute)”  “A real-time global conversation.” Facebook has interesting metric evaluation.  Now they’re touting their advertising tools, which this blog has taken advantage of with little success.

10:21: CNN interviews some professor from some college.  He doesn’t really add anything of note but does fill time.

10:28: FACTOID: This is the first opportunity Chief Justice John Roberts will have at swearing an incoming president in.  Now, I will take a bathroom break.

10:48: I am back and quoting the great Chad Dukes, “I taught that toilet a lesson it won’t soon forget Oscar.”  Anyway, we just learned that Dick Cheney is in a wheelchair with back problems.  Sad.

10:55: Just posted a picture of yours truly above.  Not to make this about me and my blog, but if you want a bumper sticker of “udothedishes.com”, by all means shoot me an email.

10:57: The motorcade drives down Penn Ave with both presidents.  I’ve seen a motorcade in person while at the first ever Washington Nationals game at their new stadium and IT IS NO JOKE.  If I were completely insane and thinking of doing something dumb, I would quickly sober up when I saw the men with machine guns and bad attitudes. It is truly an experience to see all 30 cars in the motorcade.

11:01: It now hits me that we have our first African-American president and first lady.  That in addition to the already extraordinary tone set by having a new president makes me revel.

11:07: There have been 1000 comments on Barack Obama’s facebook page.  [Food for thought at udothedishes.com has exceeded its one day all-time hit total making today the best day ever here on the sight]

11:09: CNN’s Aaron Cooper interviews students from Morehouse college in Atlanta; CNN has people everywhere.  Also, reminds me of my few experiences with interviewing and how difficult it is to come up with relative questions that aren’t the same basic inquiries we hear all the time.  My point:  interviewing isn’t as easy at it looks.  Just watch my interview with Justin Spring to your right.

11:13: Quote from someone’s status via the CNN.com coverage via Facebook, “Have you seen how awesome Michelle Obama’s mother is?”  Actually, no — I haven’t heard anything about her.  I will look into it.

11:16: Bill Clinton walks in and is still the man.

11:17: I’m wondering if anyone is going to listen to Nas’s sentiment when he rapped, ” … Mr. Black President, yo Obama for real. They gotta put your face on the five-thousand dollar bill€

11:21: I just learned that they’re going to have a poet from Yale recite a poem and this is a break from tradition.  I’m wondering why they didn’t get Nikki Giovanni to do it?

11:24: The CNN stream through Facebook is eff’n up.  There are probaly hudreds of thousands of people using it, I would imagine.  Someone’s status update on the “People watching” tab of the stream said, “Be careful what you wish for.”  Don’t you love the haters?

11:28: The Obama girls are probably the cutest children to ever grace the White House.  The Kennedy kids were probably up there too.

11:30: Wondering if I’m typing too much and also wondering why I see people outside walking instead of watching history unfold.

11:32: Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden walk down those stairs and it has to be said, they’re MILFs.  Is that inappropriate?

11:34: Bush just did his patented shit-eating smirk while walking towards the stairwell and basically gave the lady directing the traffic of people a “low-five.”  You have to love that dude even if you don’t respect him.

11:40: Biden announced

11:42: Status update from the CNN.com stream through Facebook, “I hope they have good security.”  Me too, me too

11:44: The 44th president of the U.S. of A., Barack Obama, is announced.

11:54: I get the chills when I hear someone with a tremendous voice.  Aretha Franklin everybody, give it up.

11:58: Right on schedule, Biden is sworn in by Associate Justice John Stevens.

12:00: “YO-YO MA,” brings us off schedule.  Oh well, variety is the spice of life or something.  I have no clue who this guy is; I thought Yo-Yo Ma was a pop group.

12:03: Bush is still president and Biden is VP!  Wow.

12:06: I wonder if he swore in on the Koran? No matter, he is officially the POTUS.

12:08: I’m going to listen to B.O., as I like to call him, then get my day started with a run down Connecticut Ave.

12:11: Lastly, as I listen to B.O. speak I have to say to those patriots, those yankees who support the United States no matter how bad things seem and no matter their color, creed, or political affiliation, understand that just as it was democratic to bash Bush it will be people’s prerogative to slam Obama. While for some it may be racially fueled for others it may not, regardless it is within their right.  Remember, do not argue with fools because people from afar cannot tell who is who.  The best revenge is to live well.

Congratulations America, “…we are ready to lead once more!”

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