Comments on: Where Did You Watch Obama Become President?

By: Muhd Zikri Afiq

Muhd Zikri Afiq — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:35:11 +0000

Obama is a great and a pleasant person. He have a burning desire. I like his speech and he has a nice voice. But Obama,since i was in primary 5,my maths are all failed. So,i work very hard and this year i was in primary 6. All my maths test are improving like what Barack Obama says’Yes,we can’.Thats all i had. Thanks Obama for making me inprove and i would have the burning desire to. By the way,my name is Muhammad Zikri Afiq Bin Habeeb Mohammed. You can call me Zikri.

By: Pete Steege

Pete Steege — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:27:35 +0000

On CCN.com on in my cubicle.

By: dailybail

dailybail — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:08:02 +0000

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By: Noelle

Noelle — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:21:08 +0000

I was at work, and wasn’t allowed to stream the coverage, because the guys I work with “were sick of it.” I had to settle for watching it online later. I wasn’t going to go in in the first place, but I did, and they should have let me stream, (I was really frustrated about the whole thing.)

By: Terence

Terence — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:15:03 +0000

I came home from school and watched it. I think it was a intriguing event I must say. For some strange reason I tried to get away from it and I ended up righjt back on cnn and fox. I went to class only to come back and watch somemore of it while starting a project. I can’t say I am a big fan of some of his plans but I believe he will put the appropiate people around him for him to make a sound decision. I wish him well. I am sure there is a lot of people that want him to fail. If he fail, we all fail. United We stand, divided we fall.

By: Baz

Baz — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:00:05 +0000

Your ‘Poll’is skewed towards tech and those who care to follow Obama and/or US politics.

Some people watched at movie houses, others caught it – often accidentally – on video billboards outdoors and many didn’t watch at all.

Not to mention that the drag on the internet and broadcast infrastructure dramatically decreased the ability of individuals and companies to do the work that keeps them afloat.

Pomp is nice and might make people feel ‘included’in the process, but the hundreds of millions this Inauguration cost to mount and the sheer volume of manpower and technology wasted could have gone a long way towards improving people’s lives or physically (and not just verbally) improving US foreign policy.

Obama may be a great orator and have some well-intended views on how to improve the lives of his (and the world’s) citizenry, but the sheer waste of resources in these trying times suggest that Obama’s America may not be all that different from Bush’s. Bush 2.0, if you like.

By: jlbrown

jlbrown — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:37:22 +0000

Didn’t watch it.

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:53:56 +0000

I tried to watch from Air America Radio and from Current.com, but the video was choppy. So I ended up listening to the coverage of the event from my KPCC iPhone application that streams the KPCC broadcast to my iPhone.

By: j.do

j.do — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:03:23 +0000

I watched from Vietnam with:

1/ video from MSNBC website on Firefox
2/ audio from KQED on iTunes. Strangely, the audio feed lagged behind video by about 5-10 sec.

I found the Facebook stream on CNN website to be a total and useless distraction. Besides, the CNN video never started, after installing a couple of Adobe plugins.

The CNN feed was available on Ustream.tv. But overall, Ustream.tv was overhyped.

By: Savior

Savior — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:54:41 +0000

I was starting to think I might be the only person that didn’t bother watching it. I’m glad to see that a few others did as well.

I never knew that seeing a president being sworn in was such a big deal.

By: Quicks Thoughts on the Transition of Power « Eric Gonzalez

Quicks Thoughts on the Transition of Power « Eric Gonzalez — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:45:54 +0000

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By: Farah

Farah — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:37:19 +0000

I was there on the National Mall to see it. God bless America and our new President!

By: Voiceofone

Voiceofone — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:35:31 +0000

Didn’t but had I the toilet would have been an appropriate vantage point.

By: penguinsxlovely

penguinsxlovely — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:28:40 +0000

I listened to it on the radio coming home from class.

By: nyangel22

nyangel22 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:18:33 +0000

I was lucky that I was able to watch it from home. it was so amazing to watch. this is the 4th president that has been sworn in while i have been alive (i was born half way through Reagan’s 2nd term), but it is the only one that i can actually remember all of the things that have happened surrounding the Inauguration. It is a piece of history to be cherished for the rest of time.

By: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:05:59 +0000

I didn’t. I’ll have plenty of time to watch this failure trash the economy and ruin our standing in the world. Maybe I’ll watch Bobby Jindal or Sarah Palin’s inauguration in 2013.