{"id":1421,"date":"2009-01-20T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2017-01-18T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:27:02","slug":"transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, some of my scattered thoughts while listening to inauguration coverage on the radio for a while earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama is no great orator, but then neither is President Bush. It&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama&#8217;s inaugural speech included plenty of statements that sounded as though President Bush hadn&#8217;t been doing a bunch of things President Obama mentioned were now going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what will be President Obama&#8217;s first Executive Order.<\/p>\n<p>And what about his birth certificate?<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Rick Warren for mentioning the God of Israel and excluding Allah of the Muslims. And for praying in Jesus&#8217; Name. I must confess to being surprised by both. Seems like there was something else, but I don&#8217;t recall.<\/p>\n<p>Who messed up the administering of the Presidential oath of office: Chief Justice Roberts or President Obama?<\/p>\n<p>That was quite the &#8220;poem&#8221; that gal had!<\/p>\n<p>And the prayer after it had more rhyming in it. (Yep, I still say real poetry rhymes!) And that prayer! Well, never mind. I&#8217;m white&#8230;and I&#8217;ll let it rest at that. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>So what was with letting some music trump the United States Constitution? Or perhaps the Constitution doesn&#8217;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? \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of that music &#8212; I thought it sounded like funeral music! Which struck me as somewhat ominous given it was &#8220;forcing&#8221; the oath to wait til after noon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did I hear a news commentator actually refer to one of the Obama girls as, &#8220;Cute as a bug&#8221;?! \ud83d\ude2f I hope that doesn&#8217;t get branded as racist.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me close with some positives and some good news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Bush didn&#8217;t hold on to power.<\/li>\n<li>By all appearances, it was another orderly and peaceful and smooth transition of power. Thank you, God! (And thank you, too, President Bush.)<\/li>\n<li>Like President Reagan before him, President Bush survived the &#8220;death-in-office curse&#8221; on US Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 (beginning with 1840). Thank you, God!<\/li>\n<li>Terrorists didn&#8217;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.)<\/li>\n<li>President Obama is younger than I am!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Bush, bless God.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama, bless God.<\/p>\n<p>America, bless God.<\/p>\n<p>And may it please God to bless America and President Obama and President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another orderly and peaceful and smooth transition of power<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,704],"tags":[903,1009],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thankful","tag-president","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-mV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}