Obama, the day after

Posted by: Ryan K. | January 21, 2009

But here’s a whirlwind mashup of various Obama-media:

Just in case you missed it, Al Sharpton (who will be speaking at Midd) mistook Aretha Franklin for Barack Obama’s mother-in-law yesterday just before the Inauguration. Yikes.
As you all have heard, Justice Roberts botched the oath.
The most oft-said words in the Obama address were: Americas, Nation, New, Every, Must, and People. Well, what’s with Rick Warren’s bizarre tonal emphasis on Obama’s children’s names?
Sorry if Facebook statuses were changing several times a minute, it’s CNN.com’s fault.
College kids were blogging, twittering, and flickring left and right.
Of course, just about every middkid has been to the new WhiteHouse.gov. His web team clearly gets it. Now only if the government owned whitehouse.com.
The chorus I sang in as a kid, the San Francisco Boys Chorus, were those red-trimmed children singing patriotic songs like the new hit single, “Yes We Can.”

Sarah F. Update: CNN.com is reporting that President Obama has retaken the oath.

Responses

Many of the viewers in the Juice Bar started giggling when Rick Warren said, “Malia and Sasha.” So awkward!
By: Sarah F. on January 21, 2009
at 11:35 am
Wow I don’t remember ever consciously thinking about the bizarre tonal emphasis on kids’ name in prayer oratory before. He wasn’t doing something special for Malia and Sasha — it’s just some oratorical thing that preachers of certain backgrounds (revivalist? evangelical? southern?) picked up along the way. I’m certain that lots of other listeners found it as unsurprising as I did. But it is odd, isn’t it?
By: Sarah M. on January 21, 2009
at 2:44 pm