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from Suzie Bright's Journal: http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/1-i-have-only-seen-the-inauguration-on-tv-before-i-am-here-to-tell-you-it-is-nothing-like-what-you-see-on-the-tube-the-c.html
1) . . . I am here to tell you: the live event, the whole weekend, is NOTHING like what you see on the tube . . . The cultural experience has far superceded the political one. It's more like Woodstock or Wattstax than a snoozy Episcopalian church service, which was my former impression . . .
2) . . . The whole city is having a ball. I just had a ball in the elevator. Every bar is a riot of bonhomie. Dancing in the streets, singing, WHATEVER feels good. No one is a stranger in DC this weekend. I could care less how close I get to the ceremony or dignitaries. Vox Populi . . .!
3) . . . I can't imagine how GRIM a Romney Inauguration would've been . . . Stoked by all their paranoia, resentment, and deep sexual pathology, how could one even breathe? How would DC's waiters and bartenders and park rangers have managed not to throw up . . . ?
4) . . . This is an epic American black community gathering; it's the "new tradition." Everyone who could get a plane, train, or pony fare is here. People in wheelchairs, people with all their kids, 90-year-old grandma's who went mano a mano with the Klan in Atlanta and Birmingham in the Sixties, EVERYONE.
read more: http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2013/01/1-i-have-only-seen-the-inauguration-on-tv-before-i-am-here-to-tell-you-it-is-nothing-like-what-you-see-on-the-tube-the-c.html
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Bright:
"Breathing oxygen like this, talking and touching like this, lets us feel, if only for a few minutes, how beautiful life is."
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)How cool is that!
And yes, how horrible if it had been Mittens and Queen Ann. Gah. (Never doubted the outcome for a second. So sure we even watched the election returns on FUX.)
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . undeniable joy.
longship
(40,416 posts)Makes me proud to be an American, a Democrat; it makes me proud to be human.
Nicely written.
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . a new 'Bright' spot in journalism, I think.