THE U.S. CONSTITUTION says the president shall be sworn in on january 20, at high noon, and that's all it says. Rumor has it that madison and jefferson sparred verbally over whether to provide for a one day inaugural postponement in the event of Sunday NFL playoff football, and decided not.
sunday's constitutional swearing in just didn't have enough media appeal, so the obama people, the corporate rulers, and we the american people, in absentia, decided to do the whole thing over monday, with all the traditional hoopla. One of those "only in america" thingies.
Obama has now tied FDR's record of being sworn into the presidency four times, but of course it took roosevelt four terms to do it. I only watched part of it today, because i thought there were too many commercials, just as i think there are too many commercials for every television program.
Just knowing that the monday inauguration was nothing but a sham, a repeat, a corporate sponsored entertainment money making extravaganza, lessened my interest in it. For the record, this was the first time an american presidential inauguration has taken place which was absolutely meaningless....
owing to the fact that it was nothing but a reenactment. Unless our historical research department is mastaken, always before when inaururagion day fell on a sunday, which was once or tiwce; the inauguration was simply held on sunday, as per constitutional requirtment, without the monday reenactment.
But that was then, and this is now. They could not postpone the actual oath of office - that would be illegal..so, they did it yesterday, in private, so they could do it all over again on a monday holiday honoring a black man while inaugurating a black president.
Just too much drama to turn down, here in the land where we are taught to exploit everything.
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