Jan 20, 2009
The litter on the National Mall after the Barack Obama inauguration was incredible. Barack Obama spoke to the need for more personal responsibility. Let’s start by everyone cleaning up their own trash!
Obama’s 2nd Inauguration To Draw Less Than Half the 2009 Crowd
It is one of those occasions that is quintessential Washington: the inauguration of a president, a multi-day festival of patriotism, politics, optimism and self-congratulation.
All of that will be on display on January 21, when President Barack Obama is publicly sworn in for his second four-year term. But this inauguration will be far less grand than Obama’s first in 2009, when a record 1.8 million visitors flooded the city to see the nation’s first black president take office.
This time the celebration is likely to attract no more than 800,000 or so guests, city officials estimate. As a result, some luxury hotel rooms and coveted tables at high-end restaurants are still available, less than a month before the inauguration.
The swanky Mandarin Oriental Hotel, with its sweeping views of the National Mall, initially required inauguration guests to make reservations for four nights. Now it has relaxed that requirement to three nights to try to fill its rooms.
But the “inauguration markup” still applies: The Mandarin’s least expensive room, normally available for $295 a night, starts at $1,195 a night during the long inauguration weekend.
Even so, the demand for hotel and restaurant reservations for this inauguration pales compared with the rush that followed Obama’s first election.
Wild Thing’s comment……………….
Obama voters are disgusting in every way, and slobs, filthy idiots. They are people that do NOT love America.
They’re not going to pay them, the taxpayers are going to pay them.
Thank you Bob.