Barack Obama is now President of the United States. His speech this afternoon was a typical Obama speech: empty and without substance. Here's the full text, which we'll break down today.
The benediction was given by the Rev. Joseph Lowery that was full of racial tensions.
Francis Cianfrocca says that Americans are losing the ideas of freedom today while we pick up a constitutional monarch. Leon H. Wolf hopes that Obama is a failure. I want him to succeed—but on my terms.
Obama said yesterday that "government can only do so much."
Now that he's President, Obama will actually have to tackle the job of foreign policy, which he plans to do tomorrow, including planning to withdraw troops from Iraq in 16 months. He'll also have to deal with al Qaeda, which appears to have either chemical or biological weapons. The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis says that Iran will have a nuclear weapon this year. This is the scary stuff, folks.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, most of the stuff in Obama's stimulus bill won't hit the economy soon. Of course, it turns out that this recession isn't anywhere near as bad as they claim that it is.
Bill Ayers was turned away at the Canadian border last night.
The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden says that Obama's honeymoon is now over.
Chrysler got another bailout—this one from foreign automaker Fiat.
A businessman in Fairbanks, Alaska made an ice sculpture of a shivering Al Gore in honor of their cold winter.
The AP had a story yesterday about the unequal spreading of the financial burden of homeownership.
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