It really bugs me how the press pushes this as a "historical" inauguration. Any time a new president is elected it's historic. They all have their pictures in the new edition of Britannica after they're elected. And really, the fact they're making more of a big deal about the color of his skin and his age than the radical changes to our infrastructure implied by his campaign means that we, as a people, really haven't learned how to "treat everyone equally" after all. It is when we can make absolutely no mention of someone's gender, race, age,etc. but discuss and deal with them only by their relative merits that we will have reached that point. Obama's race and McCain's age were not on the table for election debate points in this house.
As one six year old I knew put it some years back, "We're all brown. What difference does the shade make?" I see that our kids "get it" better than we do.
Instead, we should be looking around at what is being proposed. Obama is not walking into a fragrant rose garden in spring, but rather a wintery thorn patch.
Is "All Children Left Behind" going to be overhauled or eliminated?
Will their be a nationwide "early childhood education" mandate?
How is Obama going to implement national health care without reducing quality or eliminating ingenuity at a reasonable cost?
How many countries is Obama seriously "considering" increasing a military presence in?
Where are the soldiers going to come from?
What direction are we really heading in on moral issues? If you read carefully, he is more conservative on some than expected, although extremely liberal on others.
Wall Street does affect Main Street in many ways. How are we going regain our respectability economically, both internally and internationally?
The inauguration is not the important thing for history, the presidency that follows is.
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