The Official Inauguration-Watching Thread

[lost4life]

Detroit represent!

[Convict]

What the hell is on Aretha’s head?

[rocking_chair]

now that is a hat!! go ms franklin!

[twickster]

Wow. Aretha Franklin’s hat is something else.

[Cyberhwk]

Holy BOW batman!!!

[Sateryn76]

Aretha!

Worst hat ever…

[garygnu]

That bow on her head is HUGE! :eek:

[Koxinga]

My country 'tis of thee
Find out what it means to me

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

@Convict

The never ending prayer.

He couldn’t just say an “Our Father?”

Oops, spoke too soon…

To be fair, it wasn’t “never ending”.

[Darth_Sensitive]

@Dr. King

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

[hawksgirl]

Uh, BBC America announcer, that is not our national anthem. Maybe it will be in a few minutes, but that is not it.

[mswas]

Wow Aretha Franklin is murdering this song.

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

@lost4life

Detroit represent!

You mean we get some kind of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for something good?

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

[Simon Cowell] Ok… Aretha is it? Listen, you’ve got an ok voice but you need to lose that hideous bow on your head, and you need to los some weight.[/Cowell]

[Scuba_Ben]

@mswas

Wow Aretha Franklin is murdering this song.

I disagree. That was a very beautiful rendition of the song.

[mswas]

88888

[Sateryn76]

For some reason, that performance sucked some of the dignity out of this…

[clairobscur]

Definitely shocking! I didn’t expect that the ceremony would be interrupted by a religious sermon, invocation of God, and finally a prayer (I knew there would be a pastor, but I thought he would just hold the bible, or something like that). I couldn’t stop thinking it would fit perfectly on a country like Iran, and that it was a slap in the face of everybody not Chritian.

[Neutral_Density]

Bob Bennett came to do that?

[WolfpackJeep]

The bow! XD Was it sequined, or did it have LED’s in it?