"I did it" - Obama Sworn In For 2nd Term As US President.

[mongers]

Obama just officially warn in as US President for a second term, so what can we expect to see in the next 46 1/2 months ? 



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21106159

Inauguration Day: Obama sworn in for second term

Barack Obama has officially been sworn in for his second term as US president in a small ceremony at the White House.

Although the US Constitution requires the oath of office to be taken by noon on 20 January, that falls on a Sunday so the public inauguration will take place on Monday.

Mr Obama took his official oath in the White House's Blue Room.

The public ceremony with pomp and circumstance will follow on Monday.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office to Mr Obama, witnessed by First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Sasha and Malia as well as some family members and reporters.

Resting his hand on a bible used for many years by his wife's family, Mr Obama vowed "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States".

He will repeat those words during Monday's public inauguration, in which he will set out his plans for the next four years.

Vice-President Joe Biden was sworn in for a second term at a small ceremony at his official residence earlier on Sunday morning.

The 70-year-old will also repeat his oath publicly on Monday.

[Admiral Yi]

Obama just officially warn in as US President for a second term, so what can we expect to see in the next 46 1/2 months ? 

A never ending sequence of budget crises that come down to the midnight hour and which all are resolved by keeping taxes low and spending high.

[mongers]

Obama just officially warn in as US President for a second term, so what can we expect to see in the next 46 1/2 months ? 

A never ending sequence of budget crises that come down to the midnight hour and which all are resolved by keeping taxes low and spending high.

Well that's the Republican agenda, but what of Obama's ?

[Admiral Yi]

Well that's the Republican agenda, but what of Obama's ?

No it's not.

Apart from gun control Obama will not push any big domestic initiatives.  He spent all his rhetorical firepower in the first term on fatcats and millionaires paying their fair share.  That appears to be played out.

[CountDeMoney]

He spent all his rhetorical firepower in the first term on fatcats and millionaires paying their fair share.  That appears to be played out.

And it all ended in a 0-0 tie, anyway.

[lustindarkness]

So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.

[Ed Anger]

The amount of racist emails in my inboxes will be up 100%.

[Admiral Yi]

And it all ended in a 0-0 tie, anyway.

6-0 Barry.

[CountDeMoney]

And it all ended in a 0-0 tie, anyway.

6-0 Barry.

Nah.  Taxes going up a bit for Romneynaires who won't miss it anyway is small potatoes compared to the total lack of financial industry regulatory enforcement and reform.  On that, the Choom Gang has wiffed 100%.

[Admiral Yi]

Nah.  Taxes going up a bit for Romneynaires who won't miss it anyway is small potatoes compared to the total lack of financial industry regulatory enforcement and reform.  On that, the Choom Gang has wiffed 100%.

What a weird thing to say.

Would you mind sharing what your principle sources of news/information are?  I peek at my dad's Progressive, Mother Jones, and Soujourners once in a while, read the NYT Sunday editorials faithfully, and catch a couple minutes of the political comedy guys each week, all so I can understand the leftist world view better, but sometimes you post stuff that makes me think we're living in alternate realities.

Also a weird segueway from the issue of taxing the rich.

Speaking of the NYT, this week has an essay by Joseph Stiglitz on the economic arguments against income inequality.  Personally I think he did just about as well as a human can in advancing the argument.  In other words not at all well.

[Neil]

The argument against income inequality is a matter of degrees.  I haven't even encountered anyone not goofy who was serious about eliminating income inequality as opposed to reducing it.

[DGuller]

Speaking of the NYT, this week has an essay by Joseph Stiglitz on the economic arguments against income inequality.  Personally I think he did just about as well as a human can in advancing the argument.  In other words not at all well.

No way you thought that.

[Razgovory]

Well that's the Republican agenda, but what of Obama's ?

No it's not.

That seemed to be the Republican agenda for the Bush administration.  Why should it be different, now?

[CountDeMoney]

What a weird thing to say.

Would you mind sharing what your principle sources of news/information are?  I peek at my dad's Progressive, Mother Jones, and Soujourners once in a while, read the NYT Sunday editorials faithfully, and catch a couple minutes of the political comedy guys each week, all so I can understand the leftist world view better, but sometimes you post stuff that makes me think we're living in alternate realities.

Could also be that I don't give a flying squirrel's fuck anymore, too.

But really now, you don't have to read Mother Jones to see that the SEC or the Justice Department isn't sending anybody to jail over anything, or how HSBC can collude with the world's nastiest regimes and drug cartels to dodge the law, and they only get fined 4 weeks' worth of earnings. TOO BIG TOO JAIL.

[Admiral Yi]

No way you thought that.

Raz has the very legitimate excuse of being a bit nuts.

Stewart and Colbert are very entertaining, funny guys.  Maher much, much less so IMO.  But the price of this entertainment is an atrophying of the ability on the part of their demographic to construct anything resembling a coherent argument on the merits, and its replacement with vilification of anyone opposed to the in group's point of view.