Hit & Run > Obama Inaugurated, Ex-Klansman Collapses - Reason Magazine:
"An hour after the inauguration of America's first black president, the Senate's only former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) collapses. Coincidence?"
Bush, still morally bankrupt - The Agitator » Blog Archive » A Final Bit of Ignominy:
"President Bush has been the stingiest president in modern history when it comes to his use of presidential pardon and commutation powers. Yeseterday, he threw a bone to the Lou Dobbs wing of the GOP by commuting the sentences of the two border agents who shot an unarmed man in the back, then lied and attempted to cover it up.
I don’t often agree with NRO’s Andy McCarthy, but his 2007 column on these two thugs was spot on. Of all the people in federal prison who actually deserve a commutation or pardon, Bush picks these two."
Hit & Run > Now at Reason.tv: Hopes and Fears for Barack Obama's Presidency—Reason staffers sound off on government spending, regulation, foreign policy, the drug war, and more -:
"As Barack Obama gets sworn in, Reason's Ron Bailey, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Michael C. Moynihan, Anthony Randazzo, Damon W. Root, and Matt Welch explain their biggest hopes and worst fears for the next four years.
Talking Points Memo | Dump That Meme ...:
"Drudge is saying it. And weirdly the AP is even falling for it too, saying Obama flubbed the oath. But that's clearly not what happened if you actually watch the video. It was Roberts who flubbed it. (ABC got it right; what's with AP? Following Drudge? Still a GOP town?)
Roberts started the oath. Obama went a little more quickly than he'd anticipated. And then in the second stage of the oath Roberts got the words wrong. Instead of 'I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States' he said 'I will execute the office of President of the United States faithfully ...'
Obama starts to repeat but realizes that Roberts has garbled the words (he's probably thinking, 'Dude, this is a big moment for me. Can you try that again?') and then he lets Roberts say it again. After that it was a bit bumpy but they got through it.
Bush's brutal smackdown by the Economist. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy - Assessing the Bush years | The frat boy ships out | The Economist:
"He leaves the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history. At home, his approval rating has been stuck in the 20s for months; abroad, George Bush has presided over the most catastrophic collapse in America’s reputation since the second world war. The American economy is in deep recession, brought on by a crisis that forced Mr Bush to preside over huge and unpopular bail-outs.
America is embroiled in two wars, one of which Mr Bush launched against the tide of world opinion. The Bush family name, once among the most illustrious in American political life, is now so tainted that Jeb, George’s younger brother, recently decided not to run for the Senate from Florida. A Bush relative describes family gatherings as “funeral wakes”."
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