Inauguration Roundup

A compilation of links to key events during today's amazing
Inauguration of Barack Obama

• Beautiful and elegant new official web site for the White House/President
• Obama taking the Oath of Office
• Obama Inauguration speech, video and text.
• Aretha Franklin singing My Country Tis of Thee
• Elizabeth Alexander reads inaugural poem "Praise Song for the Day" Video. Text.
• Reverend Joseph Lowery benediction (video)
• Air + Simple Gifts Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman , Anthony McGill & Gabriela Montero
  

The many faces of the Obama Family at the Inauguration. They embody the real America, people! An excerpt from the story:

The family that produced Barack and Michelle Obama is black and white and Asian, Christian, Muslim and Jewish. They speak English; Indonesian; French; Cantonese; German; Hebrew; African languages including Swahili, Luo and Igbo; and even a few phrases of Gullah, the Creole dialect of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Very few are wealthy, and some — like Sarah Obama, the stepgrandmother who only recently got electricity and running water in her metal-roofed shack — are quite poor.

The President and Mrs. Obama dancing to "At Last" at the Neighborhood Ball.
I say, "INDEED! AT LAST!"

More from the Neighborhood Ball -- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours!