Obama Inaugration

[angelic upstart]

I cant remember his name but in the 1960's there was a white senator of a Southern state who campaigned on total segregation in all walks of life and got the local police to fire on civil rights campaigners and forcibly tried to stop black children going to a white school.

It was Little Rock, Arkansas.

Incidently, I remember a time when the British army shot at civil rights campaigners in N.I. Times move on though innit.

 

[jambo]

what he can do over the next 4 years (it won't cost money, so it is possible) is to help american attitudes change.

That began today with his condemnation of the Bush administration's willingness to trade values for expediency (rendition, torture, etc); & his powerful expression of a new US multi-lateralism.

Felt like America just started to grow up after 8 years of infantilism

 

[Grecian_Harryj]

Thought his speech was excellent just after he took the oath around 5;15, ( english time).

 

[DB9]

Incidently, I remember a time when the British army shot at civil rights campaigners in N.I. Times move on though innit.

The best recruitment campaign for the IRA when that sad chapter is NI's history happened

 

[information_ministry]

Time will tell but Americans do seem to believe they are better than anyone else. God Bless 'em

i_m

 

[Swanaldo]

Americans do seem to believe they are better than anyone else.

Really? I thought that was the English. Silly me.

 

[fred binneys head]

Poisoned chalice. Unfortunately.

 

[Antony Moxey]

Really? I thought that was the English. Silly me.

No Swanny - we know, not think.

 

[urinal]

Really? I thought that was the English. Silly me.

Or the French, Italians, Spanish...

 

[MikeB]

I found the whole thing mind numbingly boring. So typcially USA. Over the top. So thankfully missed most of it apart from the clips on the news which went on way too long instead of leading with our own domestic news first.