I agree-too much entertaining the V.I.P's, why didn't they take the cost of all this "Hoopla" and pay some mortgages for those losing their homes? how about food for our on country's hungry? this will certainly be the most costly inaugration ever! I do not agree with all this spending!

That kind of attitude is a good way of ensuring 8 more years of bitter partisanship. As John McCain said in his concession speech, the nation spoke, and it spoke clearly. Obama is the president. Get used to it.

Actually, large numbers of McCain voters have changed their minds since the election; Obama has 70% approval now and that will probably increase by several points after the inauguration. If GOP politicians and their leader had given a thought to the nation's well-being and conducted themselves responsibly over the last 8 years things might have turned out differently. They didn't. Get over it.

COnservatives cannot fully fathom that they and their political leaders and their flawed ideology have nearly destoryed the America we all know and love. And so since they cannot possibly look iun the mirror they lash out. Calm down all you conservatives. President Obama and the Democrats will make the country better for you, too. Just like bush and the republicon party using conservative principles ruined for all of us. It is not just Democrats who are breathing dirtier air, facing global warming, and looking at the possibility of unemployment in the worst economy since the 1930s. And it won't be just Democrats who benefit from sane, intelligent, reasoned governance as we go forward.

What a laugh. Bush and McCain aren’t conservatives, not even close. I can’t help but wonder though, if the entire nation is subsidized, who are we going to be subsidized by? Maybe the Chinese will build some factories and we can all make toys or stitch on buttons for 3 bowls of porridge and a tent.

Sore loser!

Not everyone is on-board. Now that is a real surprise. I would imagine tbat the majority of those who regularly watch Fox News are not on-board. Obama has consistently tried to articulate the need for reasonable expectations. The quantity and depth of problems he is inheriting took years to develop and will take a long time to fix. Obama will leave the country in better shape than he found it at the beginning of his two terms. It will be a more perfect union but not a perfect union.

Bitter and clinging some of these posters remain. The nation had to accept two terms led by George W. Bush and its far-reaching consequences. Now that President-elect Barack Hussein Obama will lead this nation, it is your turn to accept what you don't like. Obama will be your president; if you don't like this fact, then ships and planes for other foreign places leave every day. Renounce your U.S, citizenship and leave: Canada is northward and Mexico goes to the south. You can drive to these two countries.

Guess we know which side of the fence this writer falls on. Just what we need when the country is going under: a moronic piffle like this. Yes, there are voters who would rather have seen McCain. They're the same voters who installed George W. Bush, and the most destructive, inept administration in history. Thank God the rest of the country came to its senses.

Sheesh. Don't you have anything else to write about?

Michelle Malkin? Great source, there, Pershing. This is the same Malkin who the gruesome Geraldo Rivera, no champ himself, called "the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in NY. I’d spit on her if I saw her."

Judging from the quote here, I see what Rivera means. Nice column on this historic day, one where our country FINALLY has a little hope, after eight years of misery, corruption, ineptitude and tragedy.

After years of being showered with abuse for relying on humanistic values and erudition to solve policy problems, the clouds have finally lifted and the sun shone through.
The conservative movement in its rush to embrace fundamentalist xenophobes has destroyed its own brain trust! End of an era for the Michelle Malkins of the world.

Sorry about your sour grapes. Grow up; it's a winner-take-all electoral system that you would not be complaining about if McCain had won.

Good luck America you elected a slick talking car salesman who has no idea what he is doing and hopefully by the end of his four years will crawl back to the corrupt politics of Illinois where he belongs. The man is a fraud who deep down hates this country, its military and the American way. It is ashame the kiss a## media will not expose the real Hussein Obama.....

Ben Pershing and witchwv, why all the sour grapes? How can you (who are obviously two of those not on board with our new President) be AGAINST Obama and FOR America? Mr. Obama is making history, how can you begrudge the celebration? Be angry at the money that the current administration is spending on an unjust war. Ask why THAT money is not being spent to help pay mortgages and feed our own country's hungry.

Obama is an over-educated BS artist, the throngs of Xers who voted him in and anything liberal (I mean anything) will see the wrath of what's left of the US economy closing its doors and battening down the hatches. Have you Dems looked around you since August? Businesses have shut down in droves and the reductions are at a break neck pace in preparation for the Tax and Spend Liberal that will occupy the WH for next 4 years. Actually, I don’t think he’ll make it 4 years, Obama will be the Marion Barry of the oval office, you heard it here first.

Hey "Theo," you sad, pathetic, pitiful loser. I'm sure you'd rather have four more years of conservative "leadership," so that they could finish up the job they started, and plunge us into a full blown depression. Four more years of death and misery. It's hilarious to hear you morons talk about what terrible things are going to happen. You idiots. You utter idiots. Look where we are. Look what eight years of conservative "leadership" have given us.

And now, once again, as with FDR, as with Clinton, the Democrats must rescue the country from idiots such as you. Look where we are . YOU voted in Bush. YOU defended him.

Well, reap the whirlwind you losers. The rest of us want something better for OUR country. If you don't like it, get out.

If it's any consolation, the "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor is soon to be joined by a new, limited edition flavor from Ben & Jerry's designed to attract the right side of the political spectrum. "Drill, Baby, Drill" will consist of a vanilla ice cream 'permafrost' with a chocolate fudge 'sweet crude' base, topped with dark chocolates in the shape of caribou and white chocolates in the shape of arctic foxes. The flavor is designed to commemorate ongoing efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to drilling, an action which might reduce the price of gas in the United States by about a tenth of a cent.

Bush spent like a madman, Obama will too. In the middle the American electorate runs from repub to dem in the inane belief that one will solve their problems. When you are facing insolvency, is it wise to go on a spending spree? Of course it is! Because there are millions of sheep too stupid to realize they and their descendants are going to pay for it. I suppose this is what addicts call ‘the vicious cycle.’

As for the hypocrite dems railing for “unity,” where was your national unity from 2004-2008? It seems fitting that such stalwarts of civil liberties are routinely upset other people don’t share their fanaticism. Maybe Obama can buy you guys some brownshirts and billyclubs and you can lurk around public places listening for traitorous speech. That seems far more congruent with your abilities than expressing yourselves with your erudite prose.