January 20, 2009
Synchronicity
(clockwise, from top left: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle walk the Inaugural Parade route after Obama was sworn in as 44th US president January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama and Michelle twice stepped from of their limousine and out onto Pennsylvania Avenue to walk down the route taking them to the White House. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images. image 2: Jim Young/Reuters. image 3: Jae Hong/AP. 4: Doug Mills/Reuters)
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Kit (Keep It Trill) said:
Love what you did today. Thank you.
Michael (The BAG) said:
Kit,
You’re very welcome. It was a day of poetry.
donna said:
I’m proud of my president again today.
Yay.
Karen H. said:
it looks even more like a dance sequenced in photos, one clasp dropped only to see the hands find each other again.
richard dent said:
Michael, let me second the compliment. You took good material and made it great.
Brian O'Nolan said:
Yes. Well done. Nice to see the Secret Service with their overcoats open, too, so they can grab their piece. Nice to know they didn’t need to.
bkm242 said:
Michael — You’ve provided the visual evidence for what we have known instinctively about this couple. Thank you!
Michelle Obama is one classy lady. From today’s New York Times: Mrs. Bush is planning to write her memoirs, and Mrs. Obama gave her a pen engraved with Tuesday’s date and a leather-bound journal inscribed with a quotation that read: “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.”
deborah said:
such great coverage today. and this is the cherry on top.
mona said:
Michael, my heart stops just looking at these pics. There are not many days that one can describe as almost perfect and yesterday was one of them. What a great job on the postings, thank you!
cenoxo said:
George W. Bush motorcade, January 20, 2005.
Barack H. Obama motorcade, January 20, 2009.
Barack under new glass.
Even while taking another constitutional down Main Street, America still looks afraid.
yg said:
let’s see…
bush got driven around in a limo.
obama is being driven around in a limo.
ergo, obama is going to govern just like bush!
dh said:
Very much enjoy these pictures. Their synchronicity did stick out to me even while I was watching it broadcast live. There was hardly a moment when they were not holding hands. And the way that they reached for each other was so instinctive and natural, so very comfortable. It is nice (yay present tense and not future!) to have the WH filled with such deep love. The country needs it.
Molly said:
They could have been ice dancing! It was COLD COLD COLD that day. brrrrrr……
I do love how they orient themselves toward one another when in each other’s company. They really have made a lasting commitment to one another and in my opinion, that bodes well for us.
cenoxo said:
bush got driven around in a limo. obama is being driven around in a limo. ergo, obama is going to govern just like bush!
Not at all. Progress clearly arrived in Washington from Day One: Security for Obama’s Inauguration to be Tightest Ever.
Accompanied by good intentions, carefully considered convictions, superior speechifyin’, and a new face in the driver’s seat, we’re the ones being driven into GWOT’s third term:
However, it sure looks like the same old road map. We may be taking more left turns than right ones, but the same enemies, destinations (that we can’t get to from here), and ETA lie ahead. Let’s hope we don’t pick up the deepest regrets along the way, but their thumbs are always out.
Perhaps the rest of the world doesn’t want America grabbing the wheel again. There’s many detours on the way to everLasting Peace (considering we’ve been going to war in Asia for decades), but at least with Obama at the wheel we’ll feel better while stuck in traffic.