obama left the luncheon, when kennedy was taken out, to check on him.
he looked very serious when he mentioned ted in his remarks at the luncheon.
Checking something else: The inauguration was running a touch late; Biden was sworn in a few minutes before noon, and Obama a few minutes after noon. Under Amend. XX, Obama took office at noon and the swearing-in was a procedural note.
MSNBC now says that BOTH Byrd and Kennedy were in need of medical attention.
looks like they get bags of stuff. the carters are walking out with biggish navy blue shopping bags.
TWO Senators collapsed? WTF is going on there?
If so, I’m guessing the former was added after Dubya’s inauguration, and the latter after Clinton’s.
they are the oldest senators there, not much of a surprize.
it seems that dodd and hatch were with him and he was talking and conscious.
If they were out in the cold for several hours I would guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
onward to the parade. let’s see if the obama’s give the secret service heart palp.s and get out of “the beast”.
That is one big vehicle…holy smokes!
No, but 38 (Ford) was too.
Are Presidential candidates just inordinately sinister?
I was moderately annoyed about Warren too, but I just don’t think it’s worth shouting over. As a concession to conservatives, it is essentially a purely symbolic gesture. Conservatives get some warm fuzzies over a guy they like, which may encourage them to work with us instead of against us, and it cost us basically nothing. I doubt that whatever deity blesses the Obama family and the Administration really cares who says the words, and Obama has made his stance on LBGT issues pretty clear; a 5-minute speech by Warren isn’t going to affect a damn thing.
MSNBC says Byrd was not sick, but was disturbed when Kennedy became sick.
I’ve been suppressing for too long the desire to ask if the new Presidential limo has spinner rims and 10-kilowatt bass speakers …
Funny I just Emailed this to a friend.
Agreed. I’m annoyed by whole concept of having inaugural prayers (especially one that reference Jesus Christ) in general. Not only are non-Christians completely excluded, but non-Protestants are as well. Either make it completely secular or include a priest, rabbi, iman, priestess, shaman, etc.
It does have a killer sound system. But it doesn’t have leather seats.
woo hoo, just spotted a (what does one call it?) herd? of mounties by the canadian embassy. they were saluting as the limo went by.
very classy mounties.
the kidlets are with them in the limo.
He’s out of the limo.
I’m tearing up again.
They’re out of the limo! They’re walking in the parade!
ETA: At least they’re wearing coats. And now they’re holding hands. Aww, how cute!