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12:21 pm, January 16th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Ustream is bringing streaming webcam video to the iPhone, perhaps in time for you to watch the historic inuaguration of President Barack Obama from the nation’s capital next Tuesday, if Tim Cook can make a little rain in Cupertino over the weekend.
Via Gizmodo, via TechCrunch
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Inauguration? Don’t you mean coronation? Most expensive one in history, why?. Is it more costly to put a black man in the White House?
c, on January 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
c, what’s it feel like to be the most disgusting person on the internet?
Michelle, on January 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Oh come on, seriously? It’s a valid question. Right in the middle of a economic crisis were there was 7% job loss, billions on bailouts, etc., etc., and we feel it necessary to spend $160 million on a party. Seems foolish and celebritized. I know it’s historic but who cares about making more history? Let’s just put him in the white house, save a few mill, send the celebrities home, put people to work and start setting a new example of spending what we have, not what we don’t. I didn’t vote for Obama but I do want him to do the wisest thing and this seems to not be it.
Michelle, if I am the most disgusting person, you’re the dumbest for saying something so obviously intolerant toward me. You’re probably a left-wing liberal who picks and chooses what to be tolerant over and then chastises everyone who isn’t tolerant of the same things you are.
You have to know that if it was a white guy being put there that this wouldn’t be happening, so it is because he’s black that it is so expensive – for the sake of history of course.
c, on January 17th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Michelle, what the heck do you mean? Are you talking about yourself AGAIN? Oh, pls, give it a rest. He’s YOUR president, too.
Taz, on January 17th, 2009 at 9:57 am
You mean the regular media coronation coverage won’t be sufficient?
If you miss the coronation, won’t the media help you every day thereafter?
I’m sure they will.
Heard Obama had visited the Washington Post the other day. They were cheering. Or perhaps they were cheering themselves.
The media can be so proud of their work. I recall Sen. McCain released more than a thousand pages of his medical records. Obama not only didn’t release his medical records (a la Bill Clinton) he didn’t release much of anything. Not even his State Senate records.
No one really knows anything about Obama except his friends who he seems to have no quarrel with regarding their anti-Americanism.
Well if the spending to prosperity thing doesn’t work out and leads to hyperinflation, the media and politicos can go with the old standby and point the finger.
Worked great this far. And Fannie & Freddie that quasi government firm, made tens of millions for a lot of people.
In the public sector. Anyone remember Jamie “The Wall” Gorelick?
RW, on January 17th, 2009 at 10:25 am