HuffPost Video: "Our Inauguration"
As part of the Pre-Inaugural Ball HuffPost threw Monday night at the Newseum in Washington, we held a New Year's-style Countdown to a New Era. It's a new era not just because the Bush Years will officially be over today, and not just because Barack Obama will be president, but because taking on the challenges America is facing will require a new era of citizen responsibility and engagement.
To illustrate this we have put together a video produced by Philip de Vellis, creator of the Think Different/Hillary 1984 ad, and now a media strategist at Murphy Putnam Media, that delivers this message: we are all stakeholders, and we are all being inaugurated tomorrow.
Check it out -- and check the rest of the site for pictures, video, and other coverage of the HuffPost Ball, a celebration of a new era in America.
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AWESOME...This is America !
I am a Canadian and I watched many hours of the Inauguration footage. When Obama took the oath tears swelled up in my eyes. This historic moment touch me so much. A black american becoming the President of the United States. I thought it would never happen in my lifetime but it did.
Obama brings about an aura about himself of hope and a better future for the USA to the American public and to the world. Obama has fresh ideas to make the world a better place for everyone.
He is the type of person who you could easily have a conversation with and spill out what is bothering you. He is that natural and relaxed and laid back. He has warmth, kindness, empathy and really listens to what people are saying to him. He does care about people.
Obama has the intelligence, the fortitude, the tenacity and the insight to be the world leader that he is. His calm resolve and his elegance and quick wit make him and outstanding star on the world stage.
Obama exudes confidence, strength, and says what he means and means what he says.
I admire Obama and look up to him as a hero of the people helping them to realize the world can and will be a better place to live....
Canuck girl & friend to the north- Thank You so much
. Millions of us have similar thoughts and feelings. Its difficult to explain-but I just feel so relieved now. We have a popular conservative talk show host here- Rush Limbaugh. This pathetic creature said recently: ' He hopes Obama fails " He reveals a nasty unpatriotic side of America..one I hope shrinks drastically. If our new president should fail- and I don't think he will- We as a people will fail as well. Limbaugh and his ' followers ' have no shame.
Ignore DucanONeil. He's a well known agent provocateur currently employed by the Chinese government.
DucanONeil, stop displaying your mediocrity, it scream's. Your outlandish claims are baseless.
The same tired ,old, discredited slogan, make up some new lies, or shut up.
This most superficial video misrepresents the phenomenon of electing Barack Obama by neglecting to include seniors who throughout their lives worked for this day. Hopefully, I have decades left to offer the benefits of my experience in the field despite the limitations of media such as yours, Washington and the political establishment.
Ok so its over and done with lets get this thing going work starts now. While I don't agree with all of his ideas I am excited about his bipartisanship and am looking forward to see what he will do. Is it real change thats up for debate but it will be a change from what we've had and people tend to fear change I say give the man a chance.
Monkeysuit
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I agree. THere is much work to be done and we all must shoulder the burdens, accept responsibility, and all be prepared to sacrifice and pay a price for getting our future back. I also cannot wait to see the republicans, who have been skillfully quiet during this time, jump out at the last minute to derail anything and everything Obama comes up with, be it with filibusters, stalls, or whatnot.
Don't believe me, check out Rush' Limbaugh's homepage article "I hope Obama FAILS!" to see how small and petty these losers can really be. How unpatriotic, how treasonous. That is like saying I hope the nation fails. You mark my words, they, Limbaugh and the neocons, will insist they will cooperate with democrats so long as it is on things on which they agree. Well, check out Obama and McCain's debates. They hardly agreed on anything. Hence not much will get through the congress and a lot will get shot down before Obama has a chance to change things for the better.
I hope I am wrong but suspect I am right. I have been watching these right wingers all my life, this is what they do, how they are, who they are. They cannot help themselves.
Allen
If Limbaugh says he hopes Obama fails- That - to me, is treason ! Anyone who could listen to that does not love this country. If Obama fails- the USA fails.
I am thrilled that Obama is the leader of a nation that leads the world.
Years back, I could not quite imagine the US voting for somebody who belongs to a race that has been so maligned in history that stories could fill the internet space. Indeed, Obama as the new president is a great manifestation of postmodernist times in which established orders have been felled. There is a shift in power; the "other" now leads.
I hope Obama use that power to do what he is supposed to do-- vast, vast work of healing -- economically, politically, and, a dimension that is difficult to pin down-- spiritually. It is work that knows no end and it gives me a chill in my bones.
I pray for his sanity. I salute him.
I do not know what the future holds.but in my heart, I know it will be better than what we've seen
in the last 8 years. President Obama has a heavy weight on his shoulders. He will make mistakes, but it is my belief that he will try his very best to represent us all. I feel there are better days ahead. But-whatever tomorrow brings..I know America will survive and thrive if we just give it time.
See that is exactly what i have been afraid of! "Our Inauguration", really? They all our inaugurations, not just this one. As for things being different there is enough noise out there that this is just more "business as usual"
Yes OUR inauguration. What crepe hangers ! For petes sake.can we just give the man a chance ! .It tooks years to get in this mess- it will take awhile to get us going again.
I Pledge to Giving Service ... some how, some way, each day!
PEACE ON THE PLANET
To my American friends (and the rest of the Americans), after almost 2920 days of putting up with mediocrity, enjoy this GREAT DAY.
I wish you the best.
Then I am afraid you do not understand the term mediocrity!
You have these feelings about a person that absolutely refuses to let people know about him. Refuses to allow his school records to be released, refuses to absolutely prove the circumstances of his birth, and in giving an unscripted speech he is just as bad as the average guy you are sniping at.
NEWSFLASH!!!
The "circumstances of his birth" have long since been taken care of. Barak Obama was born in Hawaii and is a US Citizen BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN THE US. Anyone who says that there is still a question of that is stupid. Sorry to be blunt, but there is nothing else to say about the matter.
Obama not a US citizen ? Hogwash. He was born in Hawaii. He was a Constitutional Law Professor-President of the Harvard Law review. He was raised by his white mother and grandmother- his African father left when he was only two. He's an author of best selling books, he's a family man. Even McCain said as much. Will you anti Obama people never give up ? President Obama has a very heavy weight on his shoulders..
Can you manage to have the class & the decency to wish him well ?
Maybe you can call Limbaugh or Hannity - they will enjoy your fabrications.
Humanbeing. Thanks We are enjoying this day very much. Tomorrow the work begins.
People of goodwill everywhere wish him well. He has a heavy load to carry-not of his own making.
The workd now waits for Obama ideology of CHANGE to permeate his actions and make a difference in the lives of people. His legacy will be decided in a short time.
HuffPost's Pick
Dear Arianna,
Thanks for this website! Thanks for giving progressives a place to come together and be nourished by community through information, humour, thoughtfulness, anger and frustration and the opportunitty to speak our minds.
Why is it that left leaning people proscribe the use of "progressive" for anyone other than themselves.
Heck the left position on Social Security is proof enough that they are not progressive!
Communists accepted the word "liberals" for a change.
Now "liberals" accept the word "progressives" for a change.
What will be next???
I DVRed and enjoyed your appearance on C-Span, Arianna. Calm, cogent, articulate analysis. I particularly appreciated the Republican who was angry at how Limbaugh had lied to cover for Bush, and the part of the question that slipped by you was, of course, how to reestablish our constitutional rights apres Bush. Why not answer it in your column?
Over the last eight years I haven't felt like waving a flag very much. Today I do!
What about the rest of us?
I agree! Now, our flag belongs to all Americans.
I purchased my first American flag, the day after Election Day, and flew it proudly. It's waving in the breeze on my porch today.
The flag has never looked more beautiful and I've never been more proud to display it!
Welcome, President Barack Hussein Obama! And now, a new era begins!
Did anyone watch Arianna on Dr. Phil yesterday? My perception of the Dr. was that he was trying very hard to squeeze Obama into the "no experience" square. A personal friend (Dr. Phil enjoys boasting about this) and avid supporter of W, it was clear to me watching his show yesterday that he NOT terribly supportive of our new President. How disgraceful that Dr. Phil who shows so much common sense in his advice toward others, is incapable himself of living that reality. Indeed, there is no common sense in supporting an administration that engaged in lies, deception, hateful war mongering, spying and torture for 8 miserable years. Kick the bums out today!! Great video.
Maybe Dr Phil is worried about being taxed a bit more. Poor guy- hope he can afford it.
After all- Bush gave him loads of perks for 8 long years.
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