Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

“woke” is the new caravan.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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  2. 2.

    smiley

    I hope that someone remembered to bring a loaf and a fish.

    No shit. I’m psyched about this but the coverage is getting a little out of hand. I wish people would ramp down their expectations a bit. Okay, a bunch.

  3. 3.

    robertdsc

    wears his brand-new campaign t-shirt received for contributing in the last weeks of the election

  4. 4.

    carsick

    I under it’s so crowded there that President-elect Obama will have to walk across the reflecting pool to get to the podium.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    The Mall’s capacity is over a million people. It reached capacity at 9:15. I’m lovin’ me some C-SPAN this morning.

  7. 7.

    R-Jud

    @gbear:
    I am trying to love me some C-SPAN but they keep dropping out for me. Is it because I is foreign?

    As much as I can’t stand the near-constant chatter on MSNBC (even if Rachel Maddow is doing some of the chattering), it’s working a lot better.

    Edit: ok, first shot of a little kid waving a flag and my sorry pregnant self is crying. Oy.

  9. 9.

    Mazacote Yorquest

    I still think back to Bush’s limo getting pelted with eggs, "Hail to the Thief." And yes, God made sure it rained.

    I also laugh at all the racists around the country (concentrated from Mississippi up to West Virginia), whose stomachs are knotting from the realization that the nation train is leaving White Supremacy Junction, and it’s not coming back.

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    dbrown

    Why all the sarcasm? Look at the number of people who came out in temperatures that are in the low twenties just to see this event and so many came so early (yesterday!) Everyone is happy (remember the ass suck bushwhack, his puppet master, the war criminal cheney and all the smart people who had the good sense to protests those two piles of steaming dog shit?)

    Has any president in recent memory drawn such large crowds and in weather so bitter that even a Pittsburg fan would wonder why anyone would endure such conditions? Considering all of this, the coverage is hardly over blown.

    Lighten up.

    The world is hoping for better and so are we. Enjoy the ride of hope and maybe, just maybe, some good things may occur.

  11. 11.

    NonWonderDog

    @R-Jud:
    Huh. C-SPAN is dead on my cable (Comcast in Dearborn). So maybe it’s not just because you’re from for’n parts.

  13. 13.

    Mwangangi

    Greetings to all my fellow residents of the United States, and the regulars, lurkers and hosts.
     
    Why yes I am in California, and yes I started with mimosas. We switch over to beer in a few hours…

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    The world is hoping for better and so are we. Enjoy the ride of hope and maybe, just maybe, some good things may occur.

    Preach on. Every time some cynical fuck tells me that it’s stupid to have hope I want to hand that person a gun with which to kill themselves. If you don’t have hope, why keep living?

    The thought of Bush leaving office gave me hope for eight years. I never dreamed it would be this great.

  15. 15.

    gbear

    Wow. They just wheeled Cheney out of the white house in a wheelchair.

    C-Span must be seriously overloaded. I switched to one of the remote feeds and now I’m having trouble getting back to the main feed. rats

  16. 16.

    slimslowslider

    Today’s Rosettasister blog comment

    The problem is getting someone to hear the evidence. I still can’t believe he got this far. Logic tells anyone that wants to know the truth what barry is. A COMPLETE FRAUD! Man i hope berg really does have the evidence! I want to see barry and michelle in handcuffs! I want to see his followers depressed! We have been depressed watching this ass clown get away with this for so long now. I want to watch his followers just walking around stunned! “What happened?” Oh that would be great!

    LOL, as they say. The gang at Rosettasister’s has also been calling today the "noggaration," oh the wit…

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    They just wheeled Cheney out of the white house in a wheelchair.

    Not strapped to a gurney? With lethal injection to follow shortly?

  18. 18.

    Adolphus

    I am watching NBC and Brokaw et al just discussed that hats seem to be coming back and related that old trope about Kennedy all but killing the hat industry in America because he did not wear a hat to his inauguration.

    Point 1. Maybe the choice to wear hats is less a fashion statement and more a health statement. Last I heard it was 25 degrees on the mall. You lose over 80% of your body heat through your head.

    Point 2. That myth about Kennedy killing the hat industry is more hype than not.

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    The gang at Rosettasister’s has also been calling today the "noggaration," oh the wit…

    I fully expected that shitfuck to have switched the "o" to an "i" in that made-up word.

  20. 20.

    Adolphus

    Oh, and having no trouble with C-Span 1 or 2 here in small town Florida on Comcast.

    C-Span 3 however is a bit blurry, but then they are showing a selectmen meeting in Conway, New Hampshire where they are discussing a motion to support Truman’s decision to desegregate the military.

  22. 22.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I hope that someone remembered to bring a loaf and a fish.

    Nope, I got a towel. You can’t go anywhere without a towel, it is that handy.

  26. 26.

    Zzyzx

    I love this post. It took the phrase, “the unfinished work of perfecting the union," and somehow managed to make it into a code that says that Obama’s true goal is to start a Civil War. We have been warned!

  27. 27.

    Jon H

    Big applause line at the Harvard Medical School cafeteria where about 500+ people were watching: "return science to its rightful place".

  28. 28.

    ricky

    You can’t go anywhere without a towel, it is that handy.

    You obviously have never met a Sham WOW. Beware imitators.

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