Inauguration of President Obama Watched Around the World

Our nation is watching the inauguration of President Obama. The world has joined in watching President Obama being sworn in as the 44h president of the United. Today is a historic day when American has its first African-American President. This says so much about how far America has come. It is not about Republican or Democratic, but about t people being judged “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Across the globe school children watched the inauguration of President Obama. Children in Jakarta, Indonesia watched in the classroom of a school that President Obama attended as a child. Even though it is night in many places people around the world are watching. People watched at churches in the city of Memphis where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Those that gathered to watch in person were there hours before dawn so that they may have a spot to watch President Obama taking the oath of office. In 2005 there were about 400,000 people were on the National Mall. Today about 1 million more people were on the National Mall to watch the inauguration.


 

Tampa Parent
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