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On the Inauguration and Religion
by Brian Pierce • Jan 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm • 33 comments
I watched the Inauguration here in London with the other students in my program, a group of mostly non-Americans happy about Obama’s election and ready to join in the celebration. The experience was not particularly different from what it would have been like to watch with a group of friends in the US, with one notable exception: the surprise and distaste for the religious overtones throughout the ceremony.