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|1.19.05 @ 8:01PM|#
I just want to give Nick some mad props for this little gem:
George W. Bush, arguably the savviest politician�and certainly the most underrated�to occupy the White House since Bill Clinton...
|1.19.05 @ 8:08PM|#
Damn, thoreau beat me to it.
That was good for two full minutes of laughter.
|1.19.05 @ 8:25PM|#
But without The Devil vs. Daniel Webster, how would we have gotten that classic, The Devil Went Down to Georgia and the even more classic The Devil vs. Homer Simpson.
mmmmm forbidden donut.
Warren|1.19.05 @ 11:14PM|#
Oh for christ sake Nick. It was hardly worth the effort. I mean it's not like anyone will actually listen to the thing anyway.
Larry A|1.20.05 @ 12:09AM|#
[I mean it's not like anyone will actually listen to the thing anyway.]
Barbara will.
|1.20.05 @ 7:52AM|#
At least there won't be a Maya Angelou poem.
|1.20.05 @ 10:55AM|#
I was at that event, Doug - so far away that I couldn't see the giant TV monitors, but still there is some technical sense, standing on the mall.
It just isn't an inauguration unless someone expounds on mastadons.
|1.20.05 @ 10:56AM|#
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"
You know a political slogan was catchy when it is remembered two centuries later.
|1.20.05 @ 11:33AM|#
At least there won't be a Maya Angelou poem.
See? Kerry would have been worse.
|1.20.05 @ 11:39AM|#
The Republicans have their own version of a Maya Angelou poem.
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/01/its_official_as.shtml
TWC|1.20.05 @ 2:25PM|#
Jese Walker has a slightly different take on that Tippecanoe thing....
jessewalker.blogspot.com
And, that was Washington's second inauguration speech, at round one he went on for a while.