The Inauguration (via TVOne & BBC World News)

11:16 am - Poor George H.W. Bush looks so frail with his limp and walking cane.

11:24 am - Sasha and Malia look beautiful as they walk down that carpet.  Malia definitely has her mother's grace.

11:29 am - The crowd is so quiet before Michelle comes out.  Do you know how hard it is to get a crowd that size to be that quiet?

11:32 am - The shot of that crowd in the National Mall is staggering.  I know it's not the first time it's been that full (and probably won't be the last), but it's still pretty impressive.

11:35 am - There's Cheney.  That's all I have to say about that.

11:39 am - Okay, now I'm feeling nervous for Obama's safety.  For the first time ever, really.  It feels odd.

11:43 am - Ladies and gentlemen, the President-Elect Barack H. Obama.

11:54 am - Oh, there goes Re-Re!  Do us proud woman!

11:58 am - We have a new Vice-President.  Praise Jesus!

12:01 pm - I wish the commentators would shut up and let me listen to the chamber orchestra, because the arrangement that's sneaking through is beautiful.  I feel so sorry for the musicians' fingers.

12:05 pm - Uh oh, he stuttered.  It's okay to be nervous.  :-)  Whoo-hoo!!!  We have a new President.  Praise God!  Ooh, cannons firing.  Nice.  I bet that scared the hell out of everybody.

12:31 pm - Some poets don't read their own work well.  She's one of them.

12:36 pm - That was a nice closing benediction.  You g'won brother.  :-)  LOL!!  Reverend Lowery, former president of the SCLC, is a trip.

12:40 pm - And now we're done.

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Hey, check out the new WhiteHouse.gov website.  There's an actual link to the official White House blog and it's first entry.  This is going to be an interesting inauguration.