let's talk about the inauguration plenty more than appreciation day later but
just uh... that note on martin luther king day we had president barack obama
today forty fourth president of the u_s_ fifty seventh inauguration let's take a
look at him being sworn in really for the second time he was officially sworn
in yesterday january twentieth
but it happened began today live on television justice john roberts you
really get the sense that john roberts
is not too thrilled to be doing the same us say that uh... a lot of times you
feel like
even if it's an opposing party
that is their uh... as the as the chief justice that there is some kind of level
of uh... respect and
uh... about everybody colleagues on some level but i've really got the feeling i
don't know that that john roberts is just uh... now death rolled with all
this
and i must say
uh... uh... that justice alito
i really find to be a despicable guys something about the way he would he
walked in there it is in tyre
body language i don't know that really it brought me the runway lewis i must
say
i know you don't like being robbed a pic all right let's take a look here at
uh... president obama being sworn in
witnessed french presidential and dances everyone please rise
please raise your right hand and repeat after me
though faithfully execute utilities president of the united states the
office of president united states and will tell us that liability what's the
best my building preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend the
constitution of the united states constitution of the united states so
help you god so help me god congratulations mister kyle
weapon in the country
yeah there was uh... those photos letter that you just say that the it was that
nerves and is that they are not really the program microphone issue
goody i thought that for second you know within two things i was watching it on
c_n_n_
and that feed was also from c_n_n_ so i don't know if it's only applied to
c_n_n_ and other was that there was a pool feed her probably happened on all
channels
anne case there it is and i have to say
it's hard to truly be excited about this i'm finding myself image is not that
siked up about it and i voted for president president obama and his speech
touched on a lot of issues that
uh... certainly are are important ones when we look at what is a progressive
right touched on gay marriage alluding to a kind of in a roundabout way
uh... climate change
voting problems waiting hours for voting and a lot of other issues that i
consider to be important issues
and he's done a lot of good things
during the first term now start the second term
but uh... i don't know i can't say i'm excited about this i'm thrilled that
it's not mit romney
i'm hopeful that there will be there will be more things to add to the good
column
the drones the wire the warrantless wiretapping
the bungling of the guantanamo situation that you know so many things that we've
talked about uh... it really is a and i'm just not finding myself to be that
excited about this
i'm not excited about it i don't think i'd be excited about today anyone
tried to run
uh...
winning i don't don't care who was i mean the better
candidate one
we we have the better man office
we can be happy about that what do you think the time is it ok we be excited
because of the two choices we had this is the best choice
or should we be denied that happy
uh... all i'd responses and about the united or asian i don't think this is
the
uh... in general political moment even though republicans were polly cream
djing at the mention of gays the mention of climate change its federal but uh...
this is basically to just say that
you know this is an like the first inauguration were not in crisis
emergency mode with the economy were ending the war is
and we're gonna spend the next four years according to a bomb are working on
uh... are securing a quality and on of growing growing the economy for the next
generation so yet overall
this was a bit essentially a non-political speech except for a couple
mentions
um... and i think in that sense it's good that will we know where out of the
rough as they say from the first term and uh... i think it's pretty optimistic
there's two points of view lewis
point of view one would be
all of the bad things that art
progressive things that president obama is doing
mit romney would've also done and so essentially the zero aol and the focus
should be on the good things about president obama's platform relative to
what would have benefited mitt romney had been elected
others would say
uh... i don't care what good is going on
there are things that are so
that there are going on including drones warrantless wiretapping and all these
other things
but it doesn't matter
what what's your view on that
any president
who want
i'm not gonna say any person who wants the president but any president who have
recently has a jury that has a shot at winning yeah
would have continued uh...
things of of the patriot act that
obama continued will continue to george trek so therefore do we lay down and say
we don't even consider those things because anybody would have had to do it
and let's focus on the good things as i say this i think that we are painted on
the president it's bigger than that
it's bigger than that
it's the house and senate to it's it's everything at
and it's a military you know they're making a decisions to do things like
this too
uh... try to tell
i totally reject the idea that because uh... we disagree with the president or
either
political party
uh... on anyone issue with two three four five issues that we can say that
there is progress being made i mean
yes we have drawn strikes yes we have in close one time a mile
uh... we may go to war with iran because of a lack of diplomatic efforts in serra
serra but we have a healthcare bill it's gonna insure thirty million people and
and which always old abuse would also have really around his which also really
strengthens the for-profit insurance companies we would like to get away from
its
it for me it's complete insanity when you look at the last hundred years of
history in this country and say that
the fact that this is a business friendly proposal means that
your outweighing the extreme good that's being done by this bill i'll disagree
yeah i thought it was an arborist being made even if you disagree even though
bomb asset in this speech the solutions are not going to be perfect
were nor do i have to compromise and that's what caused an
that the witness on releasing louis is
this is the ted kennedy kind of approach incrementalism if we can take steps you
not going to get everything at once and not everything you get will be
everything you want to be
if you can say we made no progress here but here we did
then that that's a positive thing
yes you want to take steps for your son who make sure the steps are in the right
direction
uh... i also don't like the fact that uh... the yield bob obama care
bird forces you know the for-profit health care system but uh... in general
the time is right
progress is being made albeit very slowly what we have four years now and
of course we'll have plenty of time to analyze in detail every aspect of what
president obama is doing well and not doing well