The US Presidential Inauguration thread

[NightDragon83]

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?!

LOL I know right... funny thing is, 4 years ago the media and the democrats hounded Bush for spending so much on his inauguration saying that he should have toned it down in light of the fact that the country was at war.

Fast forward 4 years later, and no one in the media says boo about how Obama's inauguration costs 3 times as much as Bush's last one did, and we are still at war AND we have a little economic crisis as well.

But hey, the important thing is enough money was spent so that they could have Jay-Z and Bono and Bruce Springsteen entertain the O-bots, not to mention all the security needed for over 2 million people to watch a black man get sworn into office lol.