WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered a direct, forceful inaugural address Monday, during which he promised the continuation of a large national government and socially progressive platform to a lackluster crowd who at times seemed more interested in their cell phones than his speech.
Despite the president’s sharply ideological tone – perhaps to fire up his base for his second term – the crowd gathered on the National Mall failed to catch the emotional fever pitch. It remains to be seen what, if any, role the strong smell of the marijuana smoke in one part of the Mall played on the crowd’s demeanor.
To be sure, a few people around me radiated excitement at first.
“Mama!” one child cried after her mother shouted Obama’s name and cheered.
“Don’t you hush me,” the woman said. “That’s my president. You’d be yelling the same at a football game.”
Others in the crowd didn’t quite share her enthusiasm. Chants of “O-Bam-A” rippled toward the back of the crowd where I stood but died off in less than fifteen seconds as visitors lowered their cell phones and resumed texting or looking at pictures they just took. Behind me, one or two people tried to start chants again; they never took off.
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Oh Man—There were 1 million Dope Smoking Obama Supporters there in One Big Crowded Group!! A missed Opportunity!!!
Why did they keep saying “500,000 to 700,000″, if there was really a million? Does anyone really know how many people were there?
Yeah, all these “stupid” Obama supporters were all drugged up on marijuana. They are out of touch with reality; they are escaping reality just like their queer messiah, Obozo. What do we expect from a bunch of dope-heads. Oh! My God, perverts and dope-heads run our country. Welcome to the freakers ball!!
No a prevert, communist runs our country with a good dose of islamist BS thrown in.
Geezus, you people on the right are as bad as the idiots on the left. And since you say you’re a “Christian”, why don’t you think about the fact that marijuana is one of the most healing, beneficial HERBS that our Creator gave us, but it will never be legalized, neither by Obama’s nor any other administration because it would eliminate the pharmaceutical industry and would make the medical establishment irrelevant if people actually learned they could heal themselves of dreaded diseases like cancer, with HEMP-SEED OIL.
But of course, growing hemp is not going to be legalized by any administration either, because it would eliminate the need for foreign oil and GMO cotton, both deadly to our environment and us.
GET A CLUE people–both sides ARE THE SAME. If you buy into this left/right fight, you are only furthering the NWO’s agenda. Get a brain and do some research. There are only two sides: The billionaires and US and if you ain’t a billionaire, you ain’t one of them.
Stop being brainwashed. Turn off your TV and start thinking, not just parroting what you hear on FOX News. Geezus no wonder this country is going down the tubes, with morons (on both sides) who think (sorry, don’t think) like this.
You will never convince me that 1,000,000 actually went to this event. Im sure they had to pay most people just to attend.
Saw an email today saying, “1 Million attended Obama’s inauguration but only 12 missed work!”
I assure you Obama was not stoned with Pot… if anything, he was stoned on Cocaine…. that’s his choice of drugs…. Remember one of the debates when he acted so goofy and couldnt answer any questions.. and looked like he was spaced out… you will never convince me he was not loaded with cocaine just before he came on air.. He was totally ‘out of it’….. sad… really sad.. that the news people covered for him…
It should be easy enough to get a crowd for 0bama’s speech. Just the people in the D.C. area on Welfare would fill the mall, to say nothing of the SEIU union members. Why not attend? It’s not as if they have to show up for work or anything.