The US Presidential Inauguration thread

[Words Of Wisdom]

outlawauron said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

CNN is doing one here.

As a fun side note...

President Bush's second inauguration cost approximately 42 million dollars whereas Obama's is costing approximately 150 million dollars (45m private donations).  There is a record number of 2 million people expected at Obama's.

What? Why the hell is 105 million of taxpayers money being spent on his freaking inauguration?!

Well they shutdown pretty much the whole state for it.  You didn't think all those security guards and the like were free did you?