Obama, the day after
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.
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Many of the viewers in the Juice Bar started giggling when Rick Warren said, “Malia and Sasha.” So awkward!
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?