Around Asheville, people took time out to watch and celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and Mountain Xpress was there.
Click here to see our photos from various gatherings, and click below to watch video clips from local gatherings.
— Jason Sandford, multimedia editor
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Well, they got a lot of mileage out of Bush. Now it’s time to pass the ball to Obama to come in for the big tyrannical win.
I love how the poor people who get interviewed at the inauguration and related events cannot even put together coherent sentences. Bushbots to the 10th power.
“I love how the poor people who get interviewed at the inauguration and related events cannot even put together coherent sentences. Bushbots to the 10th power.”
Nah. They’re mere upstarts when you compare “poor people who get interviewed…” to, say, a rich, supposedly well-educated, ‘leader’ of the country. A few choice examples to remind people:
“One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people’s money to help prevent there to be a crisis.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009
“I’m telling you there’s an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That’s the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009
“So I analyzed that and decided I didn’t want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.” –George W. Bush, Washington D.C., Dec. 18, 2008
“You know, I’m the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President.” –George W. Bush, ABC News interview, Dec. 1, 2008
“I’ve been in the Bible every day since I’ve been the president.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2008
“I want to share with you an interesting program — for two reasons, one, it’s interesting, and two, my wife thought of it — or has actually been involved with it; she didn’t think of it. But she thought of it for this speech.” –George W. Bush, discussing a company that improves access to clean water in Africa, Washington D.C., Oct. 21, 2008
“Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008
“And they have no disregard for human life.” –George W. Bush, on the brutality of Afghan fighters, Washington, D.C., July 15, 2008
“We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 2, 2008
Lots more rib-ticklers here:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm