But he was the same person, meaning only 43 different Americans. But he was the same person, meaning only 43 different Americans. By your logic, there are 56 Americans who have taken the oath.

Jefferson Davis was never President of the United States.

i was joking

all of this is pretty insignificant but obama's first day has been pretty cool. restrictions on lobbying is always good and the cap on white house salaries is a pretty symbolic thing but hey LEAD BY EXAMPLE right?

just so far everything he has said has been pretty good. talking about transparency, all that stuff.

Talk is cheap Mr. Obama. Lets see some of that change you promised me!

Talk is cheap Mr. Obama. Lets see some of that change you promised me!

Heh, he's closing down Guantanamo!

While this is old news, the orders for my last year in the Navy where going to be at Guantanamo.

The last thing I want to be doing with the last 365 days of freedom is filing paperwork at a foreign detention camp in the middle of the gulf.  With those orders canceled I'll be extending on my current ship which is headed to Guam this summer.

one of the first things obama did was revoke executive order 13-whatever which bush enacted to give him total control over legislative documents of former incumbents and vice presidents.

a lot of politicians think bringing themselves down to our level is a sign of weakness but i'm certain all of our parents/parental figures have said at one point that doing the right thing is always the hardest.

man my mom tried to convince me that obama made that mistake during the inauguration so that he could take the oath of office again without a bible. as if it would be such a horrendous thing to have a president that isnt a christian oh nooooooooo

well he is a muslim..

my favorite part is how my mom thinks he is secretly in league with al qaeda and that he is going to bring america crashing down from within

buuuuuuuuuuuut oh wait hes an apostate according to muslim jurisprudence ho ho howhattts that sharia law I aint never even heard of that shit

also I love how the republican party is starting to implode

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/president-obama-is-litera_b_166152.html

oh my god dont even get me started on the anti-christ diatribe

theres no way to counter that argument because everything they say will be HAVE YOU READ REVELATIONS DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THIS THAT THIS ANTICHRIST BARACK OBAMA LOOK OSAMA OBAMA ONE LETTER OFF HES THE ANTICHRIST

and you just kinda stare in utter awe because its just.. man. honestly that was one of the most jarring experiences of my life the first time my mom told me she honestly believed barack obama was the anti-christ. it sent me into a thought web that took me like 2 weeks to dig myself out of

well I mean I can understand where the whole antichrist thing comes from. I mean, think from the perspective of a regular-ol' godfearing christian who's a little old-fashioned and doesn't have the level of media exposure that later generations do. I mean, honestly the level of adoration this guy is getting from the media and people is pretty intimidating if you don't know a whole lot about it. I mean I've seen MURALS of the guy on walls and people's garage doors and he's only a month-deep in the presidency.

A simpler mind might interpret all that as an antichrist figure, especially if they're really into the bible

well obviously

but the fact that shes been telling me I'm going to go to hell for voting for barack obama is a little more disturbing. I mean sure if it was some random lady on the street saying that to me I wouldnt give a shit but this is my mother. The woman who all my life until about 4 years ago always told me 'be more open minded' and 'try to understand how other people feel and think' etc etc and now because she started going to a protestant church when I was in high school she has turned into a nutjob

wash cycle i wanna hear more stories about your mom. we can be in the "crazy religious parents" circle (well... line)

she thinks that barack obama reaching out to the muslim world is a sign that he is hell-bent on the destruction of america and that america is the promised land and that god hates brown people and they are all going to hell and because I study brown people and learn their languages I'm going to hell too. obviously she didnt use those exact terms but man oh man does she love to throw around the words pagan, heathen, blasphemer and infidel

I tried to tell her last weekend how stupid and close minded the things that she says are and that she is a hypocrite because she raised me to be open minded and what not and now she has come full circle. she didnt understand what I was getting at so I explained some things to her as well as giving her a history lesson about why much of the middle east has been really angry at america for the last 50 years and then I got her to admit that she doesnt operate on facts, reason or logic and that the only thing that is important to study is the bible

she is like a goddamn wahhabist christian or something I dont even know what her deal is. she also told me that the worst decision of her life was voting for jimmy carter and that she thought that satan made her do it

I'd join the circle but, mine are just plain horrible racists(like most brits...)...though they're athiest. I miss the criteria