Obama's Inauguration Occurs This Week, & I Was Totally Oblivious! And Why Are We Even Spending Money on This Event?

I get why we have big, costly inauguration events whenever a new president is first elected. I'm fine with that tradition. But how about going forward, we end it when it comes to presidents who have been reelected?

Especially when we're still facing awful economic times, stifling unemployment, and an ever-growing $16 trillion plus national debt (which itself is in no small part due to the pathetic fiscal efforts of our current president). If Obama was 1/1000th the "new," "transcending" and "transformational" figure that he held himself out as five years ago, then he would have arrived at and made, on his own, this same suggestion and conclusion that I'm now making regarding reelection inaugurations.

But apart from being arguably the most left-wing president in American history, what precisely about Obama from Day One has ever been new, transcending, transformational, original or different than any other garden-variety slimeball democrat party or gop-er politician or president whom we've seen before? I'd submit: Absolutely Nothing.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-on-offense-for-liberalism-86526.html?hp=l4