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Happy New Country

Changes at Whitehouse.gov are the top item on Techmeme.

My tweets watching The Event:

Say Amen. about 2 hours ago from web
search isn’t working too well at http://whitehouse.gov about 2 hours ago from web
This may be the greatest speech ever given about the United States. about 3 hours ago from web
“We are willing to extend a hand if you will unclench your fist.” What is this form of homiletics called? “This, then that…” about 3 hours ago from web
“the lines of tribe will soon dissolve…” whoa. about 3 hours ago from web
“We reject as false the distinction between our safety and our ideals.” Another great one-liner. about 3 hours ago from web
“the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.” Well put. Hope it’s even partly true. about 3 hours ago from web
Wow. Check out http://whitehouse.gov. Change has come. Here’s the blog: http://tinyurl.com/6tdmhy about 3 hours ago from web
World’s greatest orator flubs the oath. O well. It’s cool. Roberts didn’t look like a teleprompter, I guess. about 3 hours ago from web
My attorney, to my right, says “It’s the end of an error.” about 3 hours ago from web
We’ll all remember where we were for this. The place is Together. about 3 hours ago from web
Those people have faith. Which he called “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.” In this case, next 8 years. about 3 hours ago from web
The view up the mall… Stunning. about 3 hours ago from web

Not sure if that beats blogging it, but it sure was easier.

And I’m still glowing, three hours later.

[Later…] Apparently I topped the retweet radar list for a moment there. And Twitter itself peaked without pique.

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12 responses to “Happy New Country”

  1. David Weinberger Avatar
    David Weinberger

    Just for the record, it was Chief Justice Roberts who flubbed the oath. Our new president noticed it and gave him a chance to fix it.

    (And thanks for the tweets, Doc.)

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  2. Shawn Powers Avatar
    Shawn Powers

    Quite a day, to be sure. Also, I tweeted at you, but because unanswered questions bother me — the type of homiletics you’re referring to I believe is dialectic.

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  3. Mike Warot Avatar
    Mike Warot

    The only point I really disagreed with was the mention of powering our cars… we really need to give up that love affair… the car is a gold-digger.

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  4. William Avatar
    William

    Wonderful day Doc. Yer man spoke to the world there, and we heard him loud and clear in London.

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  6. Doc Searls Avatar
    Doc Searls

    I could hardly see Roberts. How tall is he? For that matter, how tall is Obama? Not an easy number to find. For me right now, anyway.

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  7. Andrew Leyden Avatar
    Andrew Leyden

    I probably haven’t looked at the full text of the oath in years but it was one of those random things I memorized when I worked on the Hill and it just sounded wrong the moment he said it. I felt sorry for Roberts. I think even he realized he forgot the word ‘faithfully’ and sort of threw it in at the end. Oh well, such is life.

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  9. Andrew Leyden Avatar
    Andrew Leyden

    Obama is about 6′ 1/2″ inches. Michelle is about 5’10” they say but when she wears heels she is taller than Obama.

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  10. Jan Searls Avatar
    Jan Searls

    The oath that Biden took was the military officer oath (found myself reciting it with him – old habits die hard):

    “I ______ do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.”

    President Obama’s oath was: “I _______ do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

    Obviously, Obama had the oath memorized; looked like Roberts did not. Funny on how everyone was focused on hearing Obama’s middle name said aloud – and it was almost lost in the fumbling.

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  11. Bookfools Avatar
    Bookfools

    What’s the 160 million dollar fuss all about? Politics is and always will be the systematic organization of hatreds. Isn’t it time we glean higher and set our sights on a new century without passports, visas and borders?

    This land is NOT my land, this is Not your land, this land is Homeland – the very stuff Fatherlands and Motherlands are made of.

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  12. Andrew Leyden Avatar
    Andrew Leyden

    Interesting analysis of the flubbed oath

    http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1039

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