are whining,  petulent children whom I suppose believe if they all just "wish" something hard enough and verbalize it long enough it will just somehow happen for them like magic. They ought to be embarrassed about the way they are behaving. They know damn good and well their wish for an early inaugeration is never going to happen but it does not stop them from whining. Maybe they are really afraid someone will wake up and realize this has all been just a really bad dream and stop their leader from being put into office. This kind of mentality and behavior is just childish on so many levels.

Be patient, little children, you will have your Messiah soon enough.

We shouldn't be in any hurry to be afflicted with Obamunism.

Sorry for this being so long. I would have to conclude based on my own sales experience that what we see happening in the media is marketing. The media must create that sense of urgency.

They know the reality. Even if Obama were to magically be sworn in tomorrow it would take months to get a team in place. The media is part of a tool. "The pen is mightier than the sword."
In order to keep the public under that "socialist thumb" the media must be that tool. Create a sense of urgency is the first and most effective tool in the salesman's kit.

If you look closely you will see just how much propaganda is going on...

Rules of sales:

1. create a sense of urgency

2. constantly drive home the "hook" which is the need. (why this person needs a water softener?) at least 3 times in ever 15 minute period or constantly.

3. reinforce their need for a water softener by how much this softener will save them money and pay for itself. With Obama drive home how much the country needs him to be saved.

4. omit the competition or eliminate the competition. Never tell your prospective customer they can get the same softener cheaper some place lese. Never let the public know the sitting prez could do the same thing.

5. "the old has to go." the best way to reinforce just how badly the change is needed is be constantly stating how bad their old way is. Hence, how badly George has to go.

6. always ask questions the target must answer yes too. With Obama the media must make the target believe Obama has all the answers by telling them how bad their life is and making that target want a better life.

Now with sales once the contract is signed it's best to get the softener in their house ASAP before they change their mind. So the target doesn't cancel the order.

with Obama there obviously won't be a cancelling of the order but the media cannot afford to let the minds of the people start to change. Now that Obama has resurrected Clinton's old admin the media must do "damage control" and prevent the masses from thinking about it.

They must appalled every move Obama makes, highlight his choices and create a sense of "urgency" to maintain control over the general masses.

It's all part of the "cult" thinking Obama has brought with him. Once Obama takes office crises must be "manufactured" for him to solve.

Kind of like a comic book hero. The next big crises for Obama to concur. Even if Obama is wrong the media will triumphant his ability to be "super obama."

what to expect in this massive media circus:

Create crises
Obama solves crises
Create crises
Obama solves crises

It's a two step, like writing a book. The media must create a crises for Obama to solve. It doesn't even have to be a real crises as long as Obama can look good solving it. So prepare yourself for 4 years of nauseating hell and manufactured crises for Obama to solve. I fully expect the need for a 2nd amendment ban to be part of that crises and solving bit as well.

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Bush draws fire for lavish inaugural

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 02:00 EST

WASHINGTON — Critics are calling on U.S. President George W Bush to scale back the glittering multimillion dollar parties planned this week in honor of his second-term inauguration, saying lavish festivities are unseemly at a time of war.

Bush is to be sworn in Thursday and feted with four days of pomp and party-going at a price tag of about $40 million.

An unprecedented military presence and other security measures will add another $100 million to the cost, to pay for everything from police overtime wages to reviewing stands stretching from the U.S. Capitol building to the White House.

But critics insist that with U.S. troops dying daily in Iraq, the tone surrounding this year's inaugural celebration should be more modest.

"I would have hoped they would have followed the traditions of President Wilson and President Roosevelt, who at a time of war had a very muted celebration," said Democratic Representative Robert Menendez, speaking on CNN.

"I think when young men and women are dying we should think about the reality of how we conduct ourselves here at home."

His comments echoed those of Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner), who, in a letter to Bush, urged the president to redirect some of the $40 million "towards a use more fitting to these somber times — bonuses or equipment for our troops."

Inaugural committee officials however, point out that the theme of the inaugural fete — "Celebrating Freedom, Honoring Service" — already honors the U.S. military, as well as the president's role as commander-in-chief.

Bush told reporters last week he sees no problem with either how the money is raised or how it is spent, noting that it has all been raised with private donations.

"There's no taxpayer money involved in this," the president said, brushing aside calls that some of the funds be channeled to South Asia for tsunami relief.

"A lot of the people who are coming here to the inauguration have given" to tsunami victims, Bush said.

"I think it's important to celebrate a peaceful transfer of power. I'm looking forward to the celebration," he told reporters.

Critics also noted that donations for the inaugural events mostly come from large corporations with enormous regulatory and policy interests in Washington, and say potentially serious conflicts of interest exist.

Dozens of corporate contributors have donated $250,000 each — the self-imposed maximum donation accepted by the inaugural planning committee.

Republicans said the entire brouhaha over the cost of the inaugural and the source of the money was the latest example of Democratic sour grapes for having failed to recapture the White House after a hard-fought election campaign.

A slightly more circumspect Republican lawmaker, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, said that inaugurations are meant to be celebrated in grand style — whichever party wins the White House.

"I think it's a very important event, whether it's a Republican or Democrat president that's going to be inaugurated, because it's really a celebration of the presidency, of the office," she said.

And while the mood among members of Bush's Republican party will be celebratory, the sobriety of the occasion will not be forgotten in the revelry, the Florida lawmaker said.

"I think that you will see the tone and tenure of what these events are going to be in the president's speech, which is going to be a somber, serious speech."

But not too somber: Washington society reporter Chuck Conconi said there will also be plenty of unabashed partying, to put an exclamation point on Bush's re-election — particularly after the uncertainty surrounding his narrow victory over Democratic contender Al Gore the first time around.

"You notice from the interviews that the president is giving that this one, he won," Conconi, a columnist with Washingtonian magazine, told CNN television.

"There was a question at the last inaugural, which kind of had a cloud over it. This time the Republicans are going to celebrate, say we won, we have a mandate, we're going to do — we're going to celebrate, we're going to show you," said Conconi.

"It's kind of a 'sticking a finger in your eye' kind of inaugural."

Like this? I found this in Japan Today. I think everyone should go to this article and read the comments. They are a hoot, and a reminder of the BDS that existed then, as now. Makes you wonder if the same people are furious about Obama's inauguration expense, since it's all about being classy and not wasting money during a war. Something tells me that these people are not upset at all.

Liberals don't get it.  Whatever favors them, is a great idea.  Everything else is bad or old fashioned and needs to change.

When they started down this road last week, I was reminded of how in 2000, they wanted to throw out the Electoral College because Al Gore won the popular vote.  The Electoral College is out-of-date they complained.  The people want Al Gore, we heard.  What drivel.  The Founding Fathers were dead on.  Of course, you no longer hear that complaint now, do you?

They always want to change the Constitution to favor their candidate.

 I am surprised though, that during these times they aren't hammering Obama to tone down the inagural balls.  If he truly were "a man of the people", he would have the sense enough to do that.  But these idiots are so elitist, they talk about caring about middle class and poor, it's absolute lip service.  Heck, at least Jimmy Carter did.

Tom

Doesn't it take 2 separate sessions of congress, after voters in ALL states get a crack at it, required to chage the constitution? Also, how would a changed proposed as such do when (and it WILL happen again) a, God forbid, Republican administration be elected in the future?  I suppose the Dems can't (won't) look that far ahead.