Transition

OK, some of my scattered thoughts while listening to inauguration coverage on the radio for a while earlier this morning.

President Obama is no great orator, but then neither is President Bush. It’s OK.

President Obama’s inaugural speech included plenty of statements that sounded as though President Bush hadn’t been doing a bunch of things President Obama mentioned were now going to happen.

I wonder what will be President Obama’s first Executive Order.

And what about his birth certificate?

Kudos to Rick Warren for mentioning the God of Israel and excluding Allah of the Muslims. And for praying in Jesus’ Name. I must confess to being surprised by both. Seems like there was something else, but I don’t recall.

Who messed up the administering of the Presidential oath of office: Chief Justice Roberts or President Obama?

That was quite the “poem” that gal had!

And the prayer after it had more rhyming in it. (Yep, I still say real poetry rhymes!) And that prayer! Well, never mind. I’m white…and I’ll let it rest at that. 😀

So what was with letting some music trump the United States Constitution? Or perhaps the Constitution doesn’t require that the Presidential oath of office be administered by noon. Because if it does, and since the oath was a few minutes after noon, is George W. Bush still President? 😯

And speaking of that music — I thought it sounded like funeral music! Which struck me as somewhat ominous given it was “forcing” the oath to wait til after noon.

Oh, and did I hear a news commentator actually refer to one of the Obama girls as, “Cute as a bug”?! 😯 I hope that doesn’t get branded as racist.

Well, let me close with some positives and some good news:

• President Bush didn’t hold on to power.
• By all appearances, it was another orderly and peaceful and smooth transition of power. Thank you, God! (And thank you, too, President Bush.)
• Like President Reagan before him, President Bush survived the “death-in-office curse” on US Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 (beginning with 1840). Thank you, God!
• Terrorists didn’t succeed in striking such a juicy target as the inauguration. Thank you, God! (And thanks also to all individuals and agencies working on preventing such a strike.)
• President Obama is younger than I am!

President Bush, bless God.

President Obama, bless God.

America, bless God.

And may it please God to bless America and President Obama and President Bush.

Amen.