[BRIEF NOTE] Mirabile dictu
Jan. 20th, 2009 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldIt's difficult for me to underestimate the extent to which the people around me were caught up by the inauguration. In the mall, people were sitting before the video monitors (amazingly, with the sound on) that were carrying the CBC feed, and I even saw one little old lady standing in front of a flatscreen TV in Circuit City and watching.
As for the inaguration, it seemed OK. I found Elizabeth Alexander's poetry prosaic, little more than prose, and the number of references to God and the presence of so many religious figures reminded me yet again that Canadian political culture is decided different from the American.
I'd like to thank Americans for making the right choice by electing Obama: This one, as 81% of Canadians would say, is a keeper.
As for the inaguration, it seemed OK. I found Elizabeth Alexander's poetry prosaic, little more than prose, and the number of references to God and the presence of so many religious figures reminded me yet again that Canadian political culture is decided different from the American.
I'd like to thank Americans for making the right choice by electing Obama: This one, as 81% of Canadians would say, is a keeper.
