C-SPAN will have wall-to-wall coverage of the Inauguration, including live streaming for those away from their televisions. C-SPAN's Presidential Inauguration site also has a extremely comprehensive set of resources, including video, schedules, briefings, and historical materials. Impressive and informative.
No sign yet of a Kerrycam or such to further convey the unbearable soreness of losing.
This photo from the pre-inaugural Black Tie & Boots Ball Wednesday night shows pretty well how the Republicans are feeling right now.
UPDATE: Missed the President's speech live, but the text is here. It looks very, very good. His conclusion:
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner "Freedom Now" - they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled. History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty.When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public and the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, a witness said, "It rang as if it meant something." In our time it means something still. America, in this young century, proclaims liberty throughout all the world, and to all the inhabitants thereof. Renewed in our strength - tested, but not weary - we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.
Sidenote: today seems like a very appropriate day to roll over 100,000 visits to this site, which far exceeds any expectation. Thanks to all.
Posted by Alan at January 20, 2005 05:27 AM