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The Bush Administration has flip-flopped and dumped Kid Rock from its inauguration youth concert. It's too bad. I think it'd be great to see cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon scattered across the inaugural platform...
posted by Sean @ 1/12/2005 05:09:00 PM
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I still think the admin. should scrap all the fanfare in light of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the disaster in Indonesia/Asia. Maybe it's still sour grapes from the election, but I think I'd feel the same way if Kerry had won.
Yesterday, Bush said:
"The inauguration is a great festival of democracy. People are going to come from all over the country who are celebrating democracy and celebrating my victory, and I'm glad to celebrate with them."
His comments could have been worse; thankfully, he spared us from the "terrorists-would-have-won" rhetoric.
Regarding the celebration of democracy, I agree with him. Wars, famines, and natural disasters will continue in the future... as will our Presidential Inaugurations.
Let’s not force ourselves to consider the weight of every future bad event in the world on a scale of Inaugural preemption.
It's an age-old problem for individuals and communities -- how to honor the sad and serious things in life whilst honoring and celebrating the happy (or important) ones.
In other words... "it's my 21st birthday party but my (fill in the blank relative) is sick" or "we're getting married this weekend but my grandmother just passed away 10 days ago". What's the right thing to do? Call off the happy event because of the sad one? In some cases, yes, it's the right thing to do. In other cases, it's clearly not.
I agree with Randy here, we can't not have an inaugural celebration because there are bad things happening in the world.
Yes, but we can tone them down in light of the seriousness of world tragedies. The tsunami aside, I think being involved in a war where our troops are dying on a daily basis is enough to require a more somber, subdued inauguration.
I'm with Rob on this one. Even without the spectres of war and the tsunami glaring at us, I feel that the event should be a solemn occasion in it's own right. For god's sake, we're not talking about winning the Super Bowl here, we're talking about a man taking the oath of office as president of our country. Kid Rock and the such should never be in the picture of the event in the first place.
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