Showing posts with label inauguration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inauguration. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Superlative is Sometimes Less

There are three seemingly random thoughts here, but hang on. Bear with me. I think they come together at the end.

ONE

I have had numerous people ask me what it was like to be at last week's inauguration of Barack Obama, and had a very hard time knowing how to answer. It was definitely the most historic inauguration of my lifetime, and perhaps the most important I'm ever likely to see. Except I didn't really see any of it.