And, my browser is blocking the radio show, as containing “corrupt data”. I dont know where to get a tarnscript..

Look, I suspect that we disagree about what is needed, and, the extend to which people would be READY for more govt control, if someone would lead them in that direction. The GOP is down. Neo-liberalism is a total failure, although it might survive , if the DLC membership has its way.

All you have to do is convince peopel taht :we HAVE a “free market” (or ever could have); that it was “bad borrowers” and “subprime people”; and that the rich guyus are “too big to fail”.

I have family that lost most of 401ks or IRAs in this crash. They will get nothing back. I just do not see how giving rich guys more unregulated money, will solve anything. Unemployment, money to states,reverse the tax cuts.

Otherwise, I just dont see much difference from Bush’s plan.

Are we installing a CEO or a king or an emperor of our country? The third option it seems to me.

The faux patriotism and display of “we are ONE” on HBO today, just, really ..sucked…what a bunch of bullshit!

The US will do ANYTHING to not have to note or mention CLASS! How many kids didnt get to see this because they dont have cable? Economics has rarely been mentioned at all by Obama, although , it is still the defining factor that keeps Af Ams from achieving the same standard of living as most white Ams.

I know that many people fought very hard for an Af Am president—but, if they expected a real man of the REAL people (as well as the nouveau poor), they will be sorely disappointed…his family did not live the “real Af Am experience” at all. There are Af Ams, who, I think would have been better, and, paid a higher price to get to where they are.

As for kids—hell, yeah! Its fun! Most dont give a damn what happens afterwards. Throw another tax cut for business on there and bill it to the kids!

The ego won’t really be of much use, except to convince yourself that “being there” was something to stash in your social resume for dispensing at random, depending who you meet.
Those in their homes, with a clear picture and their own comforts will be much the better for the experience, but the bragging rights won’t rate so high.
We puzzle over suicide bombers, but put ourselves through masochistic rituals for much the same reasons.
Wednesday, the country will be a different place though.  The air will be new…a buzz will be afoot.

They have got the roads closed and traffic will be screwed up for 3 days, forget scheduling work.

On the contrary, it is not a wave of good wishes that the American nation needs to send to the political establishment, but a wave of disgust and hatred.  Robinson and Dioone, the fake Progressives of TD, were among the Left that Obama met with, after going to the home of right winger George Will and meeting with him and Krauthammer, Kristol and other neo-fascists.

Obama is centering himself between these groups, where Geoge Bush is. An ex-Comapassionate Conservative.  It’s enough to make you puke.

Having a total of three Christian rappers on Sunday and Tuesday, Mr. Obama is not “respecting an establishment of religion” but he is surely giving preferred treatment to one of the three great religions. What a way to “bring us all together”!

Make it to Wednesday? Maybe - after that don’t be so sure. There are two things you can always count on Eugene Robinson for. First, to get everything backwards; and second, to idolatrize Obama Copacabana or anything remotely connected with him. Of course, the two go hand-in-hand, you could hardly have the latter witout the former. Yeah, “Washington will survive Tuesday’s inauguration”  carnival unfortunately but “whether the nation’s capital” deserves to survive after being at the center of the “financial meltdown, the deepening recession and the plethora of foreign crises from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe” is certainly a more urgent question for most of the world’s population than getting a ticket to the garish inauguration debauch. The day’s faux festivities will be largely underwritten by the same corporate interests that sponsored the campaign of their new bought-and-paid-for president. Some history, some occassion. Wednesday morning America will wake up with a nasty hangover to the sobering fact that Julius Obama is the new caesar and it will be business as usual in the American imperium. “It’s not as if we haven’t gone through this drill before. But this inauguration seems to have been amplified by a feedback loop of historical” hyperbole “that has strained”  credulity. “Things got much worse with the announcement that all the bridges across the Potomac River between the city and its Virginia suburbs will be closed to personal vehicles on Inauguration Day. For anyone who needs to cross those bridges to get into town—and this includes just about anyone arriving from points south—that means a whole new dimension of angst.” Of course, if all the poor from the Southern Hemisphere really did pour into town, you’d see what angst really means. But then they’re used to traveling on foot anyway so they wouldn’t miss their chauffered limos as much as the Obama patrons. Not that they would have much cause to go to an Obama bourgeois bash anyway. It won’t be nearly as “historic” as the inauguration of Morales or Chavez. “Not that it’s going to be easy to get downtown Tuesday from any direction, given the anticipated volume of traffic and the fact that so many streets will be blocked off.” but fear not, it won’t be nearly as “blocked off” as Gaza. “Few options are left for those” in that man-made hell thanks to many of the kind souls attending the Obama coronation. There are no “lucky few Washington-based journalists whose news organizations have secured close-in hotel rooms for” Gaza which means they will be unable to “perform their role as witnesses to history”, not even “in an unusually rumpled state.” “The biggest single anxiety for locals and visitors alike, though, may be figuring out how to actually attend anything” which makes it all the more obscene considering the anxieties terror-stricken locals in Gaza and Iraq and elsewhere will be experiencing at the same moment. But those who like the Obama gang give Gaza “a pass can take comfort in the fact that these affairs are almost never what a reasonable person would technically describe as fun. Then again, fun isn’t really the point. There’s a reason why Washington is so tied in knots over this particular inauguration, a reason why so many people will brave the elements and defy the furies to see the advent of this new presidency” - and that reason should be to protest it! So call off the party, “we’ll make it to Wednesday” - but will Gaza?