I have a cynical law student for a roommate so it was more lets make fun of this for the hour. lol
The speech was rather flat, I'll remember the flubbing of the swearing in, the annoyance of the realization that the country is run officially like a church service. During Aretha Franklin's Let Freedom Ring at the end NBC was flipping around the country and its suppose to be a reflective/serious mood, and some stupid teenager in NYC screamed at the camera for being on television. embarrassing/disgraceful.
I've grown tired of the 'American Dream' talk which unfortunately will never leave as long as I'm breathing and however long the country goes on. lol But that's the 'spirit' of America or so we've been drilled into us since first grade, so I don't really know if it is or not. We'd be better off with a unified collective view on ourselves which would lead to real individualism, now if Obama talked like that, that'd be something.
I always like the handing of the guard if you will when the old president gets on the helicopter. Reminds me of a story about an island where you leave never to return and people wave, you move on into the sunset, the new leader takes over and rebuilds sort a thing. Plus ever since Nixon and the peace signs of arrogance that process has always been a treat to experience/reflect. Cheney had to be wheeled out in a wheel chair, I guess his nuclear battery was running low, a steady diet of blood and bullets can't be good for ya lol.
