All Blog Posts Tagged 'Iraq' (2)

Tomorrow will be given over to the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. It will be a day of ceremony and pageantry and celebration. It will mark another in an unbroken series of successful, peaceful transitions of power in the longest running constitutional republic in the history of humankind. At noon with a few solemn words, George W. Bush will be a former president and fly home to Crawford Texas to a rest he most certainly deserves. On taking the Oath of Office, Barack… Continue

Incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on Fox News Sunday. As I listened, I realized that some interpretation had to be applied to the words delivered. Here are excerpts from the transcript and my interpretation (Interspersed in italics).



Well, I think the themes that you'll hear on Tuesday around noon will be very familiar to people that

have watched the campaign, but they'll be heavily infused with this

notion of responsibility and getting our country… Continue