Needlenose

Via email, but I’m told it was in a Washington Post slideshow from the inauguration yesterday.

Via email:

I’m pretty sure this is the corner in question:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=300+Bush+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA

Update: Apparently, the entire length of the street was relabeled.  Nice work.

9:03 am, Pacific time: Are wingnuts going to try to declare Obama’s swearing-in void because he and Chief Justice Roberts fumbled and stepped on each other’s lines?

9:06 am: I could have done without the “O-ba-ma” chant (however brief) at this particular moment.

9:07 am: My guess as to his first line was, “My fellow Americans, we are well and truly fucked.” Instead, he said, “I stand here humbled by the task before us.” Close enough.

9:09 am: The line about “they will be met” (referring to the country’s challenges) seems intended as the first signature moment in the speech, but Obama rushed it a bit.

9:13 am: Speaking of signature moments, has any president ever lifted one from a Hollywood musical?? (“Pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off…”)

9:15 am:  “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them…” I sure hope he’s right, but I have a feeling Obama’s going to have to move the earth, and not just say it’s moved.

Daily Kos has the full text of the speech.