Apparently I was the only person slightly impressed with the Messiah’s inaugural address. In my defense, I’ve long since stopped looking for any real content in his speeches so imagine my chagrin when pundits around the world began berating our newly crowned lord because he didn’t offer anything more than usual. Call me crazy but as far as paper-mâché speech writing goes, I thought that it was a pretty decently delivered pinata of platitudes. Hope and change. Coming together. Did he intend to follow through on any of it? Of course not. This campaign was never about results, it was about feeling good in the moment.
I actually watched the inauguration in a room full of liberals and while the initial oath received a large round of applause, the speech was met with poor reviews. Many left the room during it and when one die-hard tried to start another round after he wrapped it up, it only fell on deaf ears. I think that a lot of them were confused. I truly can’t know what the Obamaites were expecting from the man, but it definitely wasn’t what they got. The sky didn’t open; the ATMs didn’t start spewing cash. The delivery seemed the same to me as what we saw during the campaign despite what some apologists are terming a purposefully dull performance to help parse expectations. (Yeah, sure.)
I think it was just the first stage of Bush withdrawal.
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