Inauguration Pics

Here are a few pics from Evangelina's trip with my mother to DC for the big event. They had a great time and luckily they weren't caught up in the purple tunnel of doom. Evangelina said that the stars were aligned because they just kept moving and somehow turned up at the correct security gate and made it in.  

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Change

It looks like this.

TV Time

I was watching the inauguration on NBC today and just after the event they showed some pics of the crowd.  Here's a pic I took from the TV.  That's my wife, Evangelina, peeking out from behind that sign that someone else was holding.  

The old joke on Capitol Hill is that the most dangerous place on the Hill is between Sen. Chuck Schumer and a microphone....but it may now be more dangerous to be between Evangelina and a TV camera.

Once in a Lifetime...

My mother received 2 tickets to the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  I hesitated when I was asked if I would like to join her.  Evangelina on the other hand now has plans to attend the Inauguration.  I can't wait to watch it on the teevee and know that Evangelina and my mother will be witnessing history.  

Back To Work

This is the last purely political post in a while.  For those who are just looking for pots, I apologize for straying from this blog's title.  Although, much of went on here at Kreeger Pottery the last few days was about what was happening around this country.  I made some pots but my focus was on this election.  

I don't really know what to say.  I used up just about all of my emotions yesterday. Especially since I was working really hard to keep them in check so I wouldn't be disappointed. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo said that he emailed his wife at 9:12pm last night with concern about the race.  I'm glad he didn't share that on his blog or I would have started to really worry.

Personally, yesterday and today is much more than President-Elect Obama's victory.  I am hoping that this is a repudiation of the politics of tactics, of rumor, of fear and of division. Watching yesterday it was nice to know that this is still a participatory democracy.  This wasn't about populism...the amazing thing about Obama's campaign is that he allowed supporters to hope and to feel that working for him epitomized their own ideals.  

I am curious to see if Obama will govern as he campaigned, and I don't mean whether it will be a continual campaign.  I wonder if we who supported him continue to get emails and asked for help in fixing the serious problems affecting the nation.   If we are all included directly in the process I think that there is a chance of some greatness to come.  Instead of using a bully pulpit to talk through the television to the nation explaining what the government is doing we may see something very different.  Instead of seeing politics be purely about the parlor games of DC power circles it could be about what happens in DC and how people implement it directly. Think about it...if you were asked to help...would you?  

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