The Day

MANIFESTO

Whoa, is Blogger slow. Everybody and his brother must be putting his thoughts on pixel on this memorable day.

At any rate, I may or may not take the time to expand on this, but I was looking at Gorgeous George's first inaugural address today to see how he'd done vis-à-vis Obama's and was struck by the two speeches' similarities. Ah, if only XLIII had been able to walk the walk as well as talk the talk. Of course, he hadn't crowned himself a wartime president yet, and the biggest thing on his puny mind at the time was stem cell research. And, of course, it's also possible that Deadeye Dick hadn't yet taken control of the Executive Branch (or whatever branch he ran).

UPDATE — Kevin Drum has been reacting to the day all day. This post is pretty much in line with my thinking.