Change Is On The Way
I started to write a snarky post about the end of the Bush administration...but then it all hit me. "It" being some tangle of the following two propositions: (a) snark is in appropriate in the face of the tragedy of the last eight years, and (b) the moment toward which we are moving this morning is a great one, and deserves a fair amount of solemnity.
So no snark here. Change is coming, for the better. Obama has set the right tone, a tone of reconciliation and unification. The least we can do is emulate him.
Bloggers don't usually do much of substance, don't usually settle important issues, but they do seem to help set the tone. They sometimes seem to me to be rather like background noise, which is most noticable when it's grating and distracting. Perhaps we should adopt "first, do no harm" as our motto...
Be that as it may (or may not), no snark here today. Time, rather, I think, to reflect on the temporarily dormant greatness of America.
I started to write a snarky post about the end of the Bush administration...but then it all hit me. "It" being some tangle of the following two propositions: (a) snark is in appropriate in the face of the tragedy of the last eight years, and (b) the moment toward which we are moving this morning is a great one, and deserves a fair amount of solemnity.
So no snark here. Change is coming, for the better. Obama has set the right tone, a tone of reconciliation and unification. The least we can do is emulate him.
Bloggers don't usually do much of substance, don't usually settle important issues, but they do seem to help set the tone. They sometimes seem to me to be rather like background noise, which is most noticable when it's grating and distracting. Perhaps we should adopt "first, do no harm" as our motto...
Be that as it may (or may not), no snark here today. Time, rather, I think, to reflect on the temporarily dormant greatness of America.
posted by Winston Smith at
8:29 AM
2 Comments:
Is it just me, or do we have no President right now re: section 1 of the 20th amendment?
Actually we do. Obama officially became President on the 20th at 12:00 pm...the moment George Bush officially ended his Presidency.
"Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin. "
The oath was just a formality, at noon he became President.
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