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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2013, 11:23 PM Jan 2013

12 years ago my wife and I attended an Inauguration. [View all]

The pResident's egg pelted darkened limo rushed past hundreds of thousands of us protesters, at 30 MPH for 80% of the Pennsylvania Avenue path, into the protected, fenced in 1%er area around the White House.

Times have changed.

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12 years ago my wife and I attended an Inauguration. [View all] onehandle Jan 2013 OP

K/R (nt) NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #1

There was way too little coverage of the protests. femmocrat Jan 2013 #2

That's putting it mildly! I didn't even realize any of it had happened until several years later We People Jan 2013 #4

The reason I knew about the egg pelting was Cha Jan 2013 #3

Thank you for attending. I didn't know about the protests for several years afterward Hekate Jan 2013 #5

Video: ellisonz Jan 2013 #6

There were no agents around the limo by the time they reached us. onehandle Jan 2013 #7

Those were sad days. ellisonz Jan 2013 #8

The beginning of the dark years. I am so thankul for President Obama. Glimmer of Hope Jan 2013 #16

What a MAJOR contrast to the last two inaugurations young_at_heart Jan 2013 #9

I saw the procession from beginning through the swearing in with Shrub looking scared shitless. freshwest Jan 2013 #12

I remember watching it on cable, incensed. Brokaw clutching his pearls was disgusting. freshwest Jan 2013 #10

My late departed Mamma and I.... ReRe Jan 2013 #13

The Texas Oil Men that Eisenhower warned us about. The relatiionship between the energy companies, freshwest Jan 2013 #14

It was the response to a stolen election. judesedit Jan 2013 #11

IDK how I'd be able to live with myself Jamaal510 Jan 2013 #15

4 short months later Bush was signing his tax cuts into law. RandiFan1290 Jan 2013 #17