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WakeUp · 01-21-2009, 03:25 AM

WELCOME TO A NEW DAY

New President Barack Obama calls for hope amid cold reality

President Obama calls for 'new era of responsibility' at home, abroad

Writers praise Barack Obama's inaugural address

Text of Barack Obama's inaugural address

Obamas dance, then they're on their way

Obama to begin workaday task of governing nation (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama is turning from the star-studded,
crowd-pleasing pomp of his inauguration to the workaday task
of governing a hurting nation of 304 million and meeting the
soaring expectations that he and others have put on his shoulders.

Obama administration moves to suspend Gitmo trials (AP)

Obama poised to put imprint on Iraq, Afghan wars (AP)

After historic day, Obama set to tackle agenda

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diamondgypsy · 01-21-2009, 09:44 AM

I watched every moment of the Inauguration. It was amazing, as is Obama!

WakeUp · 01-21-2009, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diamondgypsy

I watched every moment of the Inauguration. It was amazing, as is Obama!

I know. Me too. I watched the Inauguration event on HBO performed on Mon at the Lincoln Memorial. I really wept. It was so powerfully moving. Blacks and whites performing together for Obama with an audiance of several 100,000 people cheering on. I was filled with Joy when Pete Seeger appeared on stage at the end. A 90 yo non-violent activist from the 50s and 60s, banned from the TV/radio airwaves, appearing with Bruce Springsteen. What a joyful moment!

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen at Obama's
Inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial 1/19/09

Pete Seeger, 1971

Pete Seeger appearing before the
House of Un-American Activities Committee
in 1955.

Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, circa 1940.

WakeUp · 01-21-2009, 07:02 PM

DAY TWO, WED JANUARY 21, 2009
[1st full day of work]

Obama Begins Day with National Prayer Service

On His First Full Day, Obama Tackles Sobering Challenges
New York Times, United States - 8 hours ago

A glimpse at Obama's day
Detroit Free Press

Bush Appointees Holding Down the Fort While Obama Nominees Await ...
FOXNews - 3 hours ago
As President Obama's nominees for eight Cabinet posts await Senate confirmation, appointees of President Bush have agreed to continue the day-to-day ...

Vowing transparency, Obama OKs ethics guidelines

Obama's whirlwind first day: economy, war and more (AP)

Obama to sign order shutting Gitmo in a year (AP)

Senate confirms Clinton as secretary of state (AP)

Obama Faces Hurdles in Reversing Bush Regulations

Diplomats, generals join Obama in war meeting

Obama limits ex-presidents' discretion on records
Obama Overturns Bush Order on Presidential Records

Obama Caps White House Staff Salaries, Promises Openness

WakeUp · 01-21-2009, 07:07 PM

Obama takes presidential oath _ again

Obama takes presidential oath _ again

23 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has administered the presidential oath of office to Barack Obama for a second time just to be on the safe side.

The unusual step came after Roberts flubbed the oath a bit on Tuesday, causing Obama to repeat the wording differently than as prescribed in the Constitution.

White House counsel Greg Craig said Obama took the oath from Roberts again out of an "abundance of caution."

The chief justice and the president handled the matter privately in the Map Room on Wednesday night.

Obama takes oath again after inauguration mistake

guardian.co.uk, UK - 6 minutes ago

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama was administered the oath of office a second time on Wednesday at the White House because a word was out of sequence when he was sworn in on Tuesday.

Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to the president in front of reporters.
The White House counsel said in a statement read by a spokesman the oath was administered a second time out of an "abundance of caution."

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; editing by Todd Eastham)

WakeUp · 01-21-2009, 07:36 PM

China Censors Part of Obama Speech
New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago

US-China Relations May Test Obama
Wall Street Journal

China says hopes ties with Obama's US deepen
Reuters

WakeUp · 01-22-2009, 03:13 AM

exitwound · 01-22-2009, 04:33 AM

Even those who didn't vote for him, and perhaps were reluctant to put any sort of trust or faith in him following the election....I think that the events of the past few days, and the tone of his speeches as well as his first few decisions made in office thus far, should give us all reason to have hope for a better executive branch and a simply better government.

Better is a relative thing, of course, and I hardly expect anything remotely approaching a miracle -- I'm not one of those people so gaa-gaa over Obama that I think that everything will be sugarplums and lollipops from here on out -- but I do see much reason for hope that at least we'll see a marked improvement not merely over the previous presidency but over all preceding presidencies.

Why you ask? Set all else aside, and I'm very impressed by the new Chief Technology Officer position at the White House, the new Whitehouse.gov, and the fact that the President stood up for keeping his Blackberry!

I don't much like blackberries, even the new touch-screen Storm; I'm an iPhone 3G man myself, being an Apple partisan (though a cross-platform & UNIX/Linux/BSD user on my professional side) as long as there has been an Apple & all.....but I'm impressed that our President is so plugged into the human element of modern technology/networking that he pushed for the most secure, encrypted, pimped out smartphone ever built!

I'm sure it's no off the shelf blackberry and that his usage of it is not as free-wheeling as I can be downloading privately developed App Store IPAs (iDevice Platform on ARM processor) with my iPhone.....but still, impressive to me.

It all speaks to a Presidency that will be open in ways that transcend party lines, and which connects with the America that we will need to be in order to get back up off our knees and reach for the stars again, IMHO!

exitwound · 01-22-2009, 04:48 AM

A fair number of people, like my conservative minded friends here and on Twitter (#TCOT), may react to the above post thinking that I don't see the various issues of concern that the new administration's emerging policies and proposals present.....for one thing, I'm as troubled as any hard-core right-winger by the democrats' proposal to spend ("stimulate") our way out of this Depression.

I think that tax cuts are more likely to help those who really need it most in this economy -- those who had a job last year, or the year before....who no longer have that job, but must still bear the tax burden of it. Particularly if they were self-employed and didn't electively withhold their own taxes/pay them quarterly, et cetera.

Deepening the deficit really burns me deep in my libertarian bones, and our national debt is already so insane.....I loathe the idea of throwing money down a (pardon the pun!) black hole. So far, all the obscene spending "stimulus" doesn't seem to have helped matters much; if anything, I think it has proven the pointlessness and impotence of such obsolete, downright ancient economic policies and we need *new* solutions to the current problems -- not old ones that have proven themselves to be broken just as much of existing/prevailing business & economic theory has.

So, don't get me wrong.....I'm no blue-blooded Obama sycophant. I just like a lot of what I'm seeing, and it gives me hope that at least some of the rest of it will be similarly bipartisan, open-minded, and truly progressive without descending into being merely capital-p "Progressive."

WakeUp · 01-22-2009, 04:59 AM

If 19 of 20 top economists (left/right/center) say that this stimulus plan is essential to get our country moving again, then who am I to argue with so many experts?

01-21-2009, 03:25 AM	#1
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	President Obama: 1st 100 Days WELCOME TO A NEW DAY New President Barack Obama calls for hope amid cold reality President Obama calls for 'new era of responsibility' at home, abroad Writers praise Barack Obama's inaugural address Text of Barack Obama's inaugural address Obamas dance, then they're on their way Obama to begin workaday task of governing nation (AP) AP - President Barack Obama is turning from the star-studded, crowd-pleasing pomp of his inauguration to the workaday task of governing a hurting nation of 304 million and meeting the soaring expectations that he and others have put on his shoulders. Obama administration moves to suspend Gitmo trials (AP) Obama poised to put imprint on Iraq, Afghan wars (AP) After historic day, Obama set to tackle agenda . __________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

01-21-2009, 09:44 AM	#2
diamondgypsy HAPPY end of SUMMER! Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Posts: 5,943	I watched every moment of the Inauguration. It was amazing, as is Obama! __________________ "One swallow does not make a summer." --Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)-- Nichomachean Ethics

01-21-2009, 07:02 PM	#4
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	DAY TWO, WED JANUARY 21, 2009 [1st full day of work] Obama Begins Day with National Prayer Service On His First Full Day, Obama Tackles Sobering Challenges New York Times, United States - 8 hours ago A glimpse at Obama's day Detroit Free Press Bush Appointees Holding Down the Fort While Obama Nominees Await ... FOXNews - 3 hours ago As President Obama's nominees for eight Cabinet posts await Senate confirmation, appointees of President Bush have agreed to continue the day-to-day ... Vowing transparency, Obama OKs ethics guidelines Obama's whirlwind first day: economy, war and more (AP) Obama to sign order shutting Gitmo in a year (AP) Senate confirms Clinton as secretary of state (AP) Obama Faces Hurdles in Reversing Bush Regulations Diplomats, generals join Obama in war meeting Obama limits ex-presidents' discretion on records Obama Overturns Bush Order on Presidential Records Obama Caps White House Staff Salaries, Promises Openness __________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

01-21-2009, 07:07 PM	#5
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	Obama takes presidential oath _ again Obama takes presidential oath _ again 23 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has administered the presidential oath of office to Barack Obama for a second time just to be on the safe side. The unusual step came after Roberts flubbed the oath a bit on Tuesday, causing Obama to repeat the wording differently than as prescribed in the Constitution. White House counsel Greg Craig said Obama took the oath from Roberts again out of an "abundance of caution." The chief justice and the president handled the matter privately in the Map Room on Wednesday night. Obama takes oath again after inauguration mistake guardian.co.uk, UK - 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama was administered the oath of office a second time on Wednesday at the White House because a word was out of sequence when he was sworn in on Tuesday. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to the president in front of reporters. The White House counsel said in a statement read by a spokesman the oath was administered a second time out of an "abundance of caution." (Reporting by Jeff Mason; editing by Todd Eastham) __________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

01-21-2009, 07:36 PM	#6
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	China Censors Part of Obama Speech New York Times, United States - 6 hours ago US-China Relations May Test Obama Wall Street Journal China says hopes ties with Obama's US deepen Reuters __________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

01-22-2009, 03:13 AM	#7
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	__________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

01-22-2009, 04:33 AM	#8
exitwound i wield the admin hammer around here-/-AKA dalaixerces Enkai Champion! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New England, USA Posts: 11,068	Even those who didn't vote for him, and perhaps were reluctant to put any sort of trust or faith in him following the election....I think that the events of the past few days, and the tone of his speeches as well as his first few decisions made in office thus far, should give us all reason to have hope for a better executive branch and a simply better government. Better is a relative thing, of course, and I hardly expect anything remotely approaching a miracle -- I'm not one of those people so gaa-gaa over Obama that I think that everything will be sugarplums and lollipops from here on out -- but I do see much reason for hope that at least we'll see a marked improvement not merely over the previous presidency but over all preceding presidencies. Why you ask? Set all else aside, and I'm very impressed by the new Chief Technology Officer position at the White House, the new Whitehouse.gov, and the fact that the President stood up for keeping his Blackberry! I don't much like blackberries, even the new touch-screen Storm; I'm an iPhone 3G man myself, being an Apple partisan (though a cross-platform & UNIX/Linux/BSD user on my professional side) as long as there has been an Apple & all.....but I'm impressed that our President is so plugged into the human element of modern technology/networking that he pushed for the most secure, encrypted, pimped out smartphone ever built! I'm sure it's no off the shelf blackberry and that his usage of it is not as free-wheeling as I can be downloading privately developed App Store IPAs (iDevice Platform on ARM processor) with my iPhone.....but still, impressive to me. It all speaks to a Presidency that will be open in ways that transcend party lines, and which connects with the America that we will need to be in order to get back up off our knees and reach for the stars again, IMHO! __________________ "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -Winston Churchill "When the going gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro." -Hunter S. Thompson Join me at the Socialnets: http://twitter.com/dalaixerces - http://brightkite.com/people/dalaixerces Founder-Administrator, The Black Hole Discussion Forum Lead Partner, Xerces Partners: http://xercespartners.com/ Consulting, Services, Success Solutions; Internet - Security - Technology - "Think Tank" Xerces Dot Com Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/XercesDotCom

01-22-2009, 04:48 AM	#9
exitwound i wield the admin hammer around here-/-AKA dalaixerces Enkai Champion! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New England, USA Posts: 11,068	A fair number of people, like my conservative minded friends here and on Twitter (#TCOT), may react to the above post thinking that I don't see the various issues of concern that the new administration's emerging policies and proposals present.....for one thing, I'm as troubled as any hard-core right-winger by the democrats' proposal to spend ("stimulate") our way out of this Depression. I think that tax cuts are more likely to help those who really need it most in this economy -- those who had a job last year, or the year before....who no longer have that job, but must still bear the tax burden of it. Particularly if they were self-employed and didn't electively withhold their own taxes/pay them quarterly, et cetera. Deepening the deficit really burns me deep in my libertarian bones, and our national debt is already so insane.....I loathe the idea of throwing money down a (pardon the pun!) black hole. So far, all the obscene spending "stimulus" doesn't seem to have helped matters much; if anything, I think it has proven the pointlessness and impotence of such obsolete, downright ancient economic policies and we need new solutions to the current problems -- not old ones that have proven themselves to be broken just as much of existing/prevailing business & economic theory has. So, don't get me wrong.....I'm no blue-blooded Obama sycophant. I just like a lot of what I'm seeing, and it gives me hope that at least some of the rest of it will be similarly bipartisan, open-minded, and truly progressive without descending into being merely capital-p "Progressive." __________________ "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -Winston Churchill "When the going gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro." -Hunter S. Thompson Join me at the Socialnets: http://twitter.com/dalaixerces - http://brightkite.com/people/dalaixerces Founder-Administrator, The Black Hole Discussion Forum Lead Partner, Xerces Partners: http://xercespartners.com/ Consulting, Services, Success Solutions; Internet - Security - Technology - "Think Tank" Xerces Dot Com Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/XercesDotCom

01-22-2009, 04:59 AM	#10
WakeUp Hermit of TBH Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,381	If 19 of 20 top economists (left/right/center) say that this stimulus plan is essential to get our country moving again, then who am I to argue with so many experts? __________________ My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Bishop Desmond Tutu Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

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