The St. Aug Inaug
We were feeling it in St. Augustine this morning. The bells in the churches on the Plaza rang and the crowd that was gathered to share the moments together (via big screen T.V.) couldn’t stop cheering. The loudest outburst followed the announcement that, according to the Constitution, Obama became the president at [...]

The Obama team has just opened up a new front in their skirmishes with gay rights supporters over Obama’s decision to invite Rick Warren, the anti-gay megachurch preacher, to give the invocation at the inauguration tomorrow.
HBO says it was ordered by the Presidential Inaugural Committee not to broadcast the gay bishop’s prayer.
The latest incident occurred [...]

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

The big smile comes at the very end.

Six degrees?
Sarah Palin overplayed her hand with a guilt by association shot at Obama last fall. Because Obama served on a board with William Ayers, a former Vietnam War protester who bombed empty government buildings back in the day, Obama too must be a terrorist, she claimed. Palin’s logical leap lacked credibility because it defied [...]

Sure, there are a lot of shameless attempts by marketers to capitalize on the Obama “movement,” turning the inauguration into an advertiser’s political version of the Super Bowl.
But the web site launched by Pepsico, refresheverything.com, has to be among the most egregious. Besides ripping off the Obama “O,” the site features just plain awful language [...]

In a column slated to run this Sunday in the Washington Post, Bob Woodward sumes up 10 hard-earned lessons that Barack Obama should draw from George Bush’s troubled presidency:
1. Presidents set the tone. Don’t be passive or tolerate virulent divisions.
2. The president must insist that everyone speak out loud in front of the others, even [...]

No wonder D.C.’s going to need so much crowd control on Tuesday — God will be taking up most of the seats. The Big Guy will be represented in almost every form, which says a lot about how religious-ized we have become.
There will be a God on hand for almost everyone.

The Most Rev. Donald [...]

In yet another unprecedented move designed to put the new president in touch with the people, effectively bypassing the gasbags in the Congress, Barack Obama’s folks have created Change.gov, a Web site that enables regular folks (read: voters) to voice their concerns, opinions, gripes, etc., in a forum that supposedly goes directly to the Man. [...]

John Berry
People can’t say enough nice things about Obama’s likely pick for director of the Office of Personal Management (OPM), John Berry. In addition to being the highest-level openly gay member of the Obama team, Berry really knows what he’s talking about when he says, “This place is a zoo.”
John Berry, the current director of [...]