SirJosephPorter responded to the statement "Living through the election and inaguration has been hell":
"I imagine it would be Hell for a Republican, GreatGuns. Your side has been in total control for six years (controlling both the Presidency and Congress and of course Supreme Court has been a Republican majority since way before 2000 when they awarded Presidency to their crony, Bush). Plus your side controlled Presidency and the Supreme court in 2006 to 2008 (you lost the Congress in 2006).
When your party had total control of all the three branches of the government, they made a royal mess of the economy. We had two severe economic downturns during Bush’s watch, one in 2001-2002 and the current one.
Is it any wonder that people got fed up with Republican ineptness and mismanagement and decided to give the other side a chance? Just live with it and be patient. If democrats make as big a mess of things as your side did (though that would be difficult to do), your side may well come back in 2010 and/or 2012."
It was NOT an inauguration. At 160 million dollars it was a CORONATION. The liberal press four years earlier was all offended about the horrendeous cost of GWB's second inaguaration which cost 40 million. Yet, they glorify the outrageous cost of the coronation of most unprepared, most unqualified candidate, ever, one who, however had the talent of a snake oil salesman, ably supported and propped up by a teleprompter.
Hans Christian Andersen must have been a time traveller. No better model than Obama for his tale of "The Emperor Has No Clothes".
