1-20-09

I wish I could bottle all this excitement and hope in the air here in my town.
Rick and I decided early on that we would watch from the comfort of our home and be warm. But that doesn’t stop us from feeling the electricity in the air.
I even got tickets that I turned down so that I could watch this close up on TV from home.

Wherever you go here, whatever your politics, you feel it, you breathe it in, and it’s warm and wonderful. I hope it can sustain. I bet even the DMV feels better this week.

Sunday as we watched the We Are One inauguration show on HBO with all the great entertainers we had some doubts. We were sitting in our comfy theatre seats watching on a big screen HD TV and getting so wrapped up in it all. The electricity was palpable.

During the 2 hr show we were moved to get up and dance, we cried, and we hugged.
All in our WARM little home.
At one point my husband looked at me and said, “God its right here in our backyard are we going to regret not going to this?”

Then after the show we saw the news.
The crowds, the traffic, the inability to get where you needed to be for hours…..a sea of red brake lights and long lines at the metro.
They showed people in line for over an hour or sometimes 2 hrs just to go through security, be patted down and your belongings gone through to just get to the show.
That is when we knew we made the right decision to stay in our warm home where the clean warm bathrooms were just a few steps away.
We like our bathrooms.

Bathrooms they say are a plenty but really?
I mean 8,000 port a potties seems like a lot but if you have over 3 million people is it? And if you are packed in like sardines how difficult will it be to get to that port a potty? That would be more difficult for me than the cold. And to be honest, cold makes me always have to pee – and sitting on that cold port a potty in 17 degrees is well – UGH!

I have watched the Bush’s last few interviews and God love the idiot he still thinks he did a good job on Katrina, the wars, the economy etc. Bush was defiant when asked how he thinks he will go down in history. He thinks he did a great job. I think that is why so many don’t care for his character. Just once I would have loved to hear him say on any given topic, and there were many, "you know I thought at the time it was the right decision but I see in hindsight that it was a grave error." I could respect him so much more if he could do that but that isn't why he is so disliked now is it?

On Sunday while wrapped in the blanket of Obama spirit , hope and excitement my husband asked me if I felt badly for Bush. I quickly said, “Hell No”
Rick said, “You know this isn’t just a celebration of what we all are hoping to come but that we are celebrating who is leaving. Do you think Bush feels that?”

I thought about that for a moment and said sadly, “If he does know that part of this is a celebration of getting him and his cronies the hell out of a leadership role that would mean he understands what a bad president his was. So no, I don’t think he feels that. But I wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall when he leaves in that helicopter today with he and Laura just to be sure.”

Here’s to all of us on this day of hope!
1-20-09