As regular readers might imagine, I love all the pomp and ceremony of Inauguration Day. I was able to attend just once; I was on a research trip to Washington in 1993 and scored a ticket to the Clinton festivities. In 1989, when I lived in Washington, I watched on TV. I did thoroughly enjoy going to the Clinton inauguration, and the surrounding events. The research, alas, was a flop, although I did learn a lot (it was about partisanship and Hill staff. Oh well). But being there for the presidential turnover was a lot of fun.
I'll be over at Plum Line and PostPartisan today, for the most part...I may be able to post something here later, but I'm not sure. Oh, and I'll be tweeting, I'm sure.
Anyway, consider this an open thread on today's events, and if anyone has memories of past inaugurations, feel free to leave them below.
Monday, January 21, 2013
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Poem on Politics for Romney
ReplyDeleteYou sit in darkness
and wallow.
Ideals too many
else follow;
another leads,
you concede
and close your door.
Your message is a blow.
Pushing against change
in angry sprit.
Confederacy well and alive
in you
and your
brothers.
Close your door.
Sit in darkness.
We will watch the winds of change
And we will continue to
Knock upon your door.
You sit in darkness.
shoving against
the spirits rising;
feel the mettle of
the peaceful soldiers.
We the people,
for the people
Evoke change.
Don’t you feel it?
Uplifting and hopeful
Tracks vibrating
With the essence of
The love of
The spirit of
CHANGE!
and we gain
Momentum.
Shame on you
For your resistance
Shame on you
For callousness
Shame on you
For placing
A wedge upon
Our tracks.
I weep for you
and others like you
as you sit in darkness
Our train of change is
Going to pass you by
As you sit in darkness.