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Crowds estimated at 2,000,000.  Marcy just came home, said she couldn’t get through the checkpoints and the crush and didn’t want to miss the ceremony so she returned to watch it on TV.  She’ll have live report soon.

Lisa texts:  "On mall crying so beautiful.  No internet, phone service spotty."

DeVeria got parade seats right in front of the White House.

Bush I looked old, but I have to say Jimmy Carter looks quite spry.  

Matthews:  Lieberman was a "terrible running mate."   Blame’s Gore’s loss on him.

Jenna now seems to be a brunette.

Bush’s belongings being put into a moving truck.  Marcy:  "Where’s the man-sized safe?"

First time anyone used Lincoln bible to be sworn in on.  "Nobody asked" said Gene Robinson.

Sasha and Malia look gorgeous.  I now want satin belts for all my coats.  Bright colors are refreshingly back in fashion.

Matthews talking about MSNBC:  "We’re not crochety about change."  He must be watching Fox, it is officially the lemon-sucking network.

As Bush walks out, people are booing.  Flanked by McConnell and Boehner.

Rachel Maddow:  "That’s not what I expected."

Crowd singing "Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, goodbye."

As Tom Tomorrow (paraphrase) said, via Atrios, "who would’ve thought Bush could have screwed up the country so badly that eight years later we could elect a guy named Barack Hussein Obama."   Credit where credit is due, I suppose.

Darth Cheney coming out in a wheel chair — could the contrast with those beautiful Obama girls be any more pronounced?

The Republicans are coming out.  It looks like friggin’ Emperor Palpatine’s entrance.

Running fifteen minutes behind schedule.

DiFi and Nancy Pelosi walking with Obama.  

It’s weird,  it hasn’t felt  real to me until now.  The specter of Bush doing more and more messed up stuff as the hours wound down meant we never really got to emotionally let our guard down.  It finally feels real now.

Wonder if it’s hitting him just how daunting and overwhelming the task before him is.

W looks like he’s been raiding Laura’s Xanex cabinet.

Rick Warren:  Smug prick preening before the camera and moved by the sound of his own voice.