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Thursday
Jan222009

The Inauguration: The Joseph Lowery Benediction

Related Post: Your Obama on Top of the World Updates (22 January)

In the discussion of the Inauguration, we've been overwhelmed by e-mails from readers praising the Inaugural Benediction by Reverend Joseph Lowery. Lowery, now 87, helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to prominence. He is a founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which helped organise the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and he led the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. More than forty years later, Lowery is still at the forefront of the ongoing quest for civil rights, both at home and abroad.

This wasn't just a prayer, this was a call to unity reaching from the past to look to the future.

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEH37JIgBU[/youtube]
Thursday
Jan222009

The Inauguration: The Daily Show Tribute (Complete with Bond Villain)

Enduring America's Alternative Inauguration Watch (20 January, 7:50 a.m.): As Dick Cheney attends the Inauguration in a wheelchair, either because he has strained his back or because he doesn’t want to stand up for Obama: “His transformation to Bond villain is complete.”

Jon Stewart: "Are you kidding me?! A wheelchair?!....You might as well get rolled out to Star Wars' Imperial March with a white cat in your lap."

My wife to me (20 January, 11 a.m.): "You really can't make fun of a person in a wheelchair."

Jon Stewart: "Now I realize that humanity has a general moratorium on poking fun at people in wheelchairs. But of course today is a day for making history."

So we're claiming our small part in this destined-to-be-classic review of the day, although Jon also took on Maya Angelou, the Clintons, the President Bushes (elder and younger), some other poet, Reverend Rick Warren, Reverend Joseph Lowery ("the most adorable civil rights legend I've ever seen), and even the Great Barack: