In less than five hours Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. Just slightly earlier Joe Biden will be sworn in as Vice President. The change we have all needed for a long time is finally here.
Barack Obama at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri on October 18, 2008. Photo by Blue Girl.
Obama on the “rope line” after his speech in Columbia, Missouri on October 30, 2008.
Joe Biden in Jefferson City, Missouri on October 9, 2008.
…Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last…
…from Kos.
And a little bit of this and that:
C-SPAN (I’m watching their feeds) reported that Darth Cheney is in a wheel chair under doctor’s orders – he reportedly was moving boxes in his new house and suffered a back spasm. I look at it as karmic symbolism writ large.
…at the change:
The old White House web site this morning.
The White House site at noon.
The White House site (with the same “index” end to the URL as the previous images) immediately after Obama took the oath of office.
The new White House web site.
The Chief Justice screws it up, but then again, if some right wingnut were to file a legal challenge to the “legitimacy” of this because of that I suppose the Supreme Court would take a dim view of the challenge:
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