Not Quite 2009: Inauguration Crowds Smaller, But Still Leave Their Mark
But the thick crowds and lines combined with the crisp 33-degree temperatures got to some people. “This is poor,” said Diane Waskiew, a visitor from New York, after waiting in line to get into the parade route viewing area for more than an hour and hardly moving at all.
Small pockets of protesters were reported, from antiwar demonstrations by Code Pink and other groups to MoveOn.org, the Westboro Baptist Church, and supporters of accused WikiLeak-er Bradley Manning. One anti-abortion demonstrator was perched high in a tree along the Mall and wouldn’t come down for more than three hours.
According to a report from the Washington Examiner, event planners only budgeted for 1,500 port-a-potties for the event — 5,000 less than at the ’09 inauguration. Many businesses along the National Mall posted “no public restrooms” signs on windows and doors to discourage bathroom breaks from nonpaying customers.
Along with navigating through peddlers selling their Obama memorabilia—hats, T-shirts, lanyards, posters, buttons and even condoms—there was also a strong presence of law enforcement, whether on horseback, on foot or accompanied by canines.
Throughout the shuffle of the inaugural events, three missing children alerts were sent out to those signed up to receive emergency alerts via text from the U.S. Park Police. Fortunately, all missing children were reunited with their families, the Park Police reported.
Though people were packed tight, they all seemed to get to where they were going, which was an improvement from four years ago.
According to the National Capital Region (NCR) Office of the National Park Service, Congress appropriated $15 million to the District to cover costs associated with Obama’s ’09 inauguration preparations, which included 20,000 public safety personnel deployed to handle the crowds, as well as 8,000 law enforcement personnel from 56 different agencies to provide security. Approximately 18,000 volunteers provided “critical assistance” throughout the inauguration.
Yet, the massive crowds caused organizers to deviate from established plans and field workers on the ground often lacked updated information, which led to confusion and congestion, an NCR report said.
I’d say this is an omen of things to come, but I got stuck in one of these back in July, so this is just normal operations — D.C. subway system breaks down taking crowds home from inaugural.
Best graph: “The problems occurred even though Metro was handling far fewer passengers than during Obama’s first swearing-in in January 2009. As of 8 p.m., 719,000 people had entered the subway system, down from just over 1 million at the same point in 2009. The total was consistent with Metro’s projections and was roughly the same as the number of people who ride the rail network on a normal business day.“
Yea,I’ll just bet they left their mark alright…trash all over the place….”third rate romance,low rent rendezvous”
What drives Obama is his inborn nature, which is similar to that of a Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, lit. “Vampire Squid from Hell“, ramming his blood funnel into every part of America to suck dry all remaining individual freedoms. His blood lust and pyromania will not be satiated unless the United States Constitution, especially including it’s Bill of Rights, and most especially the First, Second and Fourth Amendments, is a incinerated corpse. As this throwback fascist monstrosity was reelected this past November the mask will now come completely off and he will go into a rabid freedom killing totalitarian frenzy such as this nation has never before even imagined.
Up too late again, ‘Cat?
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The Obama Inauguration Brought To You By Corporations and Unions by Kevin Glass Jan 21, 2013
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2013/01/21/the-obama-inauguration-brought-to-you-by-corporations-and-unions-n1493795
I want to see the after photos of the crowd and compare how Glen Beck’s crowd left the capital and how these people did?
But that photo probably wouldn’t be in the best interest of obozoids.
“The inauguration for the nation’s first African-American elected president”….
Enough. Barack Obama IS NOT “African-American”. He is mulatto. This piece would be more correct if it started out by stating, “The inauguration for the nation’s first blatantly anti-American elected president”….
Not nearly the turnout numbers that the 49 gun rallies turned out!
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