I posted on facebook that I was wondering what I should write a blog about and one of my students posted "Politics... from the Greek word poly- meaning many, and tick meaning blood-sucking insect". I thought that was pretty funny so here we go.
Since I love politics and there is some sort of inauguration going on this week I thought I'd write about it. Pretty much everyone in America knows that Barack Obama is being inaugurated this week. We had the We are 1 Inauguration Celebration (where it seems like every other second Obama was being compared to Lincoln) and the actual swearing in will probably be the most watched ever. I'm glad so many people will be watching. You can not deny the historical significance of this presidency, even if you disagree with the President Elect on issues.
I do take issue with all the money they are spending on all these events. I came across an article on abcnews.com What Recession? The $170 Million Inauguration Makes you wonder why we need to spend that much just to swear someone in. After I read the article I said to Alisha (my wife) "If the nation was in such a financial crisis and I was being sworn in I would have pizza or something for the inauguration dinner". Sounds funny but isn't Obama taking a huge chance of alienating all those people watching trying to figure out how they are going to pay their bills? I think so.
What do you think?
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