Once we entered the city limits we immediately went to the Senate Building to pick up our tickets from Senator Feinstein's office. This was the first of many lines (or mobs) we stood in. Senator Feinstein received 35,000 requests for Inauguration tickets and only granted a couple of hundred so I felt pretty lucky to receive two purple tickets.
Our next stop was Dupont Circle where several peaceful events were taking place including a Sage-In with Kate Clinton. From several blocks away we could smell the pungent sage smoke filtering through the streets. We met two women from a multi-racial book club who drove down from North Carolina to participate in the Inaugural events. They spent their day of service cleaning a slave cemetery.
Farther down the street in a local bar we met the Rednecks for Obama. At 74 years old they have been campaigning for President Obama and were highly popular with the press. Their hope and vision for the upcoming year is that we unify and work together, to bring jobs back to the United States. Listen to both of these interviews on KVMR this Wednesday from 1:00-2:00 PM.
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