A song for the inauguration
Eight years ago, almost to the day, I was in Washington, DC, and attended the inauguration of George Walker Bush as the forty-third President of the United States of America.
It is premature to make judgments on how good Bush’s presidency has been; we are too close in time. It’s probably fair to say that history will not be kind.
It probably is fair to say that there is a sense of expectancy and hope about the Obama presidency. This song seems particularly apt.
Hat tip to the wonderful Charlie Gillet for this; he played it as the first track on yesterday’s Charlie Gillet’s World of Music on the World Service; you can listen to it again here. The other tracks are all related to the 44th President. The last one is by the Pointer Sisters – ‘Yes We Can’.
xD.
January 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Don’t you mean “the future” rather than “history”?
Winchester whisperer’s last blog post..GB is bankrupting GB
January 20th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
No; by history, I mean the products of future historians that will, in the future, be how we look at GWB in a historical context.
xD.