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Crowds swell for 2nd Obama inaugurationBy Stephen Collinson ,AFP January 22, 2013, 12:04 am TWN    Barack Hussein Obama will raise his right hand and place his left on Bibles once owned by Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and swear the oath of office before mustering for four years threatened by strife at home and abroad. The 44th U.S. president, and the first African American to hold the office, launched his second term with a private swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, before basking in the full pomp of his office with public celebrations Monday. Obama will set the rhetorical tone for the remainder of his presidency with an inaugural address to a crowd expected to reach half a million, will headline a parade and then waltz with the first lady at glittering inaugural balls. Bundled-up Obama supporters trekked into town to join snaking lines for Secret Service checkpoints guarding the entry to a steel-fenced secure zone around the White House and the inaugural parade route. Armored military vehicles and parked buses blocked major roads, as part of a tight security vice which included air and river exclusion zones, road closures and a heavy presence of police and National Guard reserve troops. The white domed U.S. Capitol building, draped with huge Stars and Stripes, where Obama was set to take the oath of office at just before 1700 GMT, was etched against the dark pre-dawn sky with spotlights. Temperatures were forecast for a relatively comfortable upper 30 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celcius), much warmer than the bitter chill that has had crowds shivering at some previous inaugurations. Though the mood was festive, as revelers crammed into coffee shops and subway trains heading downtown, Obama's second inauguration lacks the sense of historic promise and hope that greeted his first term in 2009. His political brand has been damaged by an exhausting first term battling the worst economic storm in decades and brutal partisan warfare with his Republican rivals, notably over taxes and spending. Yet Obama, 51, has a legacy to defend, including a historic health care law and a retrenchment from draining wars abroad, and he is vowing to make good on the promise of a fairer economy, which anchored his re-election win. He signaled late Sunday, at a reception for supporters, that he would dwell on the “common good” and the “goodness, the resilience, neighborliness, the patriotism,” of Americans in his address.
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In USA and the rest of the Democratic world when the President is inaugurated as president for his/her first and second terms, they celebrate jubilantly. That is true Democracy.
In Republic of China Taiwan, when President Ma was elected as first and second terms as President the DPP and TSU go to the street shouting with fury and fire and can't wait for their NEXT SHOT for 2016. That is NOT DEMOCRACY.
i.e.
December 21, 2012,
Green Guards Vincent Chou (周榆修), deputy director of DPP Youth corp's said the popular Mayan Prophecy said that the end of the world is today, Dec. 21. and that the end is caused by Ma.
In May 20, 2012 Ma’s 2nd inauguration they even used an old woman Lee Chuang (李妝) to say her son had a bad dream that Goddess of Mercy told him Ma should step down to end people’s suffering and held a hand-woven flag that read:“Step down.”
Well. I thought Wang Dan piggy bank Goddess of Democracy will surface in the street to join the fun 113. Instead it is the two DPP LIGHTWEIGHTS who appeared that night in front of me and my Taiwanese friends with expensive foods, abandoning Su’s blah blah blah.
Perhaps the two are tired hearing the same old tune......
Maybe the two understand that the DPP and the TSU was......
"Spreading Fake Democracy to Deceit and LIES to the public".. ....
The Greens should learn that in America any colors are U.S.A. American citizens, no matter where they come from Europe, Africa or in other continent. They can become President of United State of America.
The Greens should understand the meaning of whether even they belong to 100th generation born in Taiwan province. You are still a citizen of China (REPUBLIC of).