Comments on: Worst. Inauguration. Ever. http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:19:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: barryr http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802098 barryr Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:07:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802098 <p>I don’t see how you can say “peace, blessings, and tranquility” at the same time you’re spitting on someone…it’s quite a trick.</p> I don’t see how you can say “peace, blessings, and tranquility” at the same time you’re spitting on someone…it’s quite a trick.

]]> By: barryr http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802096 barryr Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:05:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802096 <p>Who blamed Obama???? Obama and his team weren’t in charge of inauguration logistics.</p> <p>In fact, I don’t think Gregg blamed anybody. He simply expressed his pain and disappointment at going all the way to DC to be at this historic event, only to be swirled around in a pen where he couldn’t even hear the speech or see a jumbotron. Maybe talking about his experience is part of his process of getting over it (and then he has to get over the cruelty of people like you).</p> <p>Here is what classy looks like: </p> <blockquote><p> Gregg, I’m sure it is cold comfort, since you had hoped to see and hear everything, but if it helps, your presence along with the other people who could be there in person, made this the most stunning inauguration I have ever seen. Thanks for making the effort</p></blockquote> <p> — phred @ 192.</p> <p>A lot of people here remind me of a Monty Python skit. “I sentence you to be hanged until you cheer up.”</p> Who blamed Obama???? Obama and his team weren’t in charge of inauguration logistics.

In fact, I don’t think Gregg blamed anybody. He simply expressed his pain and disappointment at going all the way to DC to be at this historic event, only to be swirled around in a pen where he couldn’t even hear the speech or see a jumbotron. Maybe talking about his experience is part of his process of getting over it (and then he has to get over the cruelty of people like you).

Here is what classy looks like:

Gregg, I’m sure it is cold comfort, since you had hoped to see and hear everything, but if it helps, your presence along with the other people who could be there in person, made this the most stunning inauguration I have ever seen. Thanks for making the effort

— phred @ 192.

A lot of people here remind me of a Monty Python skit. “I sentence you to be hanged until you cheer up.”

]]> By: smorbish http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802089 smorbish Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:50:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802089 <p>too negative…we don’t like that</p> too negative…we don’t like that

]]> By: smorbish http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802088 smorbish Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:49:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802088 <p>A lot of these comments are very strange…Not positive enough?? groupthink much….</p> A lot of these comments are very strange…Not positive enough?? groupthink much….

]]> By: mzsjes http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802072 mzsjes Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:30:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802072 <p>awww…my heart bleeds for you…are you really giving everything a fair chance because you werent important enough to be one of the media invited? Is it that maybe you were just cold and aggy anyway…grow up..you should have brought a better cell phone…I was warm and in my house and enjoyed every moment of the Inauguration. But then again…I didnt sign up for a job that I obviously couldnt handle…Peace Blessings and Tranquility..heres to a new America…no more whining!!!!</p> awww…my heart bleeds for you…are you really giving everything a fair chance because you werent important enough to be one of the media invited? Is it that maybe you were just cold and aggy anyway…grow up..you should have brought a better cell phone…I was warm and in my house and enjoyed every moment of the Inauguration. But then again…I didnt sign up for a job that I obviously couldnt handle…Peace Blessings and Tranquility..heres to a new America…no more whining!!!!

]]> By: AtlClassyLady http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802053 AtlClassyLady Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:21:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1802053 <p>GET OVER IT…like a previous poster stated did you really think that because you had some “Magic Ticket” that you’d get to hear, wouldn’t be pushed, shoved, or bumped into, that you would get better than all the other hundreds of thousands of people that came out for the exact same reason that you did. People are in such a rush to cause President Obama to fail, and are not even giving him a chance. Is it because he is of African American heritage? Are we still so far tangled into that Jim Crow MESS that we won’t even allow an intelligent African American Man to have his chance at making things better. Grow Up People and Get A LIFE!</p> GET OVER IT…like a previous poster stated did you really think that because you had some “Magic Ticket” that you’d get to hear, wouldn’t be pushed, shoved, or bumped into, that you would get better than all the other hundreds of thousands of people that came out for the exact same reason that you did. People are in such a rush to cause President Obama to fail, and are not even giving him a chance. Is it because he is of African American heritage? Are we still so far tangled into that Jim Crow MESS that we won’t even allow an intelligent African American Man to have his chance at making things better. Grow Up People and Get A LIFE!

]]> By: swingjan http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801930 swingjan Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:22:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801930 <p>All frustrated inauguration ticket holders please add your names to<br /> the petition and pass it on. Let’s get the count right and put all of our names in one place. There were a lot more than 5,000 of us in the tunnel!</p> <p><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/inauguration-ticket-pandemonium-never-again" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepetitionsite.com.....ever-again</a></p> All frustrated inauguration ticket holders please add your names to
the petition and pass it on. Let’s get the count right and put all of our names in one place. There were a lot more than 5,000 of us in the tunnel!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com…..ever-again

]]> By: unclejeff http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801915 unclejeff Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:10:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801915 <p>Honestly I didn’t expect it to be any other way, and I was glad to watch it in a comfortably warm house on video with a “front-row” C-Span seat. And yes I saw the Chief Justice blurb.</p> <p>I am a Springfield, IL resident and only live about two blocks from downtown….his home state. When Obama came here to give his rally speech, I walked over there thinking “What a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”. We certainly don’t see much here.</p> <p>After navigating a three block forest of T-shirt and button sellers, I finally arrived at a barricade where an enormous herd of people were bunched up looking at a brick wall.<br /> The policeman there informed me that the ‘quota had been reached’ and that this was as far as I could go. I couldn’t even see a thing! I heard a huge crowd of voices around the bend broken by occasional waves of clapping, and the faint echoes of what I thought maybe was Obamas voice. And this (at this time of year) in the scorching Springfield sun, it must have been 90 degrees +.</p> <p>I ducked into a gift shop to escape the heat, and ended up buying a souvenier quarter necklace thing (Obamas ‘Change!’). The shop owner then asked “You want me to hold that bag for you? Security will never let you through carrying that around. The only thing you are allowed is water bottles.”</p> <p>I said “No thanks, I’m going home.”. I turned around in the opposite direction of the cattle and walked back and flipped on the TV.</p> Honestly I didn’t expect it to be any other way, and I was glad to watch it in a comfortably warm house on video with a “front-row” C-Span seat. And yes I saw the Chief Justice blurb.

I am a Springfield, IL resident and only live about two blocks from downtown….his home state. When Obama came here to give his rally speech, I walked over there thinking “What a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”. We certainly don’t see much here.

After navigating a three block forest of T-shirt and button sellers, I finally arrived at a barricade where an enormous herd of people were bunched up looking at a brick wall.
The policeman there informed me that the ‘quota had been reached’ and that this was as far as I could go. I couldn’t even see a thing! I heard a huge crowd of voices around the bend broken by occasional waves of clapping, and the faint echoes of what I thought maybe was Obamas voice. And this (at this time of year) in the scorching Springfield sun, it must have been 90 degrees +.

I ducked into a gift shop to escape the heat, and ended up buying a souvenier quarter necklace thing (Obamas ‘Change!’). The shop owner then asked “You want me to hold that bag for you? Security will never let you through carrying that around. The only thing you are allowed is water bottles.”

I said “No thanks, I’m going home.”. I turned around in the opposite direction of the cattle and walked back and flipped on the TV.

]]> By: zefal http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801659 zefal Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:29:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801659 <p>People shouldn’t have an expectation of getting into an event they have tickets for? And they shouldn’t be dissapointed when that reasonable expectation isn’t met? </p> <p>Why is it that people don’t want to admit that the organizers screwed up? Might they think it would be be seen has a blot against Obama?</p> <p>This was organized by people who are going to run the executive branch of our government not a bunch of college kids who put on a concert.</p> <p>Apologies are in order and I’m sure they will be given out.</p> People shouldn’t have an expectation of getting into an event they have tickets for? And they shouldn’t be dissapointed when that reasonable expectation isn’t met?

Why is it that people don’t want to admit that the organizers screwed up? Might they think it would be be seen has a blot against Obama?

This was organized by people who are going to run the executive branch of our government not a bunch of college kids who put on a concert.

Apologies are in order and I’m sure they will be given out.

]]> By: barryr http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801655 barryr Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:23:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/20/worst-inauguration-ever/#comment-1801655 <p>Thank you for helping to make sure the ironies abound.</p> Thank you for helping to make sure the ironies abound.

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