on having a charismatic president

[miriamjoyce]

From the guy at the Citizen Action inauguration party who spoke to the room after they finished replaying the inauguration speech:

"When you follow Barack Obama, you don't make a speech. You make announcements."

(If only the woman following him had understood that too.)

Comments

[chezjake]

(If only the woman following him had understood that too.)

Agreed, but I think Joseph Lowery did an awesome job with the benediction.

(Aside: Another highlight was watching Yo Yo Ma's very obvious joy and pleasure during the quartet performance.)

[miriamjoyce]

Oh, I actually meant the woman following the person at the party. Nadia's patience did not allow us to stick around after the inaugural speech itself. I want to look up the benediction and listen to it.

And yeah, the quartet was pretty neat.

[rebyankl]

here is a transcript
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/rev_lowery_inauguration_benedi.html

Terrific, from the quoting of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the beginning to "Let all those who do justice and love mercy say 'amen'", with repeated "amens' at the end.