Inauguration
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under politics
Live tonight at 6 p.m. on B92. Or on HBO, if you have it as a part of your cable package.
In Serbian daily Politika, serialized version of Dreams of My Father autobiography is published daily.
Inauguration can be followed on Twitter, as well as on Facebook via CNN.
Or you can make Obama-inspired portrait of yourself, just like I did.
popkitchen_obama poster
I can remember an inauguration of American President that attracted this much attention. The whole of the Western world is celebrating this event, like it is Oscar ceremony or some other glamorous media event of this kind, not swearing in of a President of a country. When there is so much hullabaloo about something, I tend to be automatically repelled – the media matrix convincing you that at this moment, this is the most important thing for each of us. Of course, it is not. With his first move, whatever it may be, Obama is bound to disappoint some of his many supporters.
Considering that a year started with the Israeli attacks on Gaza (one of the reasons for this action must be that at the time, no one was holding power firmly in his hands), awareness that the recession is going to be deep, hard and that it will affect the mostly the countries, which are poor anyhow and haggling of Russia and Ukraine about gas, while we froze on ten bellow zero (the fact that Serbia is completely dependent on foreign gas and that we do not have gas reserves at all is a whole different topic), perhaps people need hope and feeling that they are on the right side, that they are participating in something global.
Even though I could live without media fever, the very fact that a black man became a President of the USA is of historical significance. As of tomorrow, he is a President, not a pop culture icon. His choice of people for the cabinet speaks that he is going to be more conservative than many expected. He simply said that he will talk with some, with whom America did not engage diplomatically so far, however it does not guarantee the total reversal of American foreign policy.
Not to end of a completely negative note. Obama appears as a lovable guy. In today’s issue of New York Times, there is a list of books that inspired him throughout his lifetime. Even if Serbia does not care about the inauguration, at least we managed to learn to pronounce this complicated word.
Tags: inauguration, media frenzy, obama, politics
January 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
we’re 12 hours ahead of DC *yawn* need to stay awake while watching CNN online. history is unfolding…