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Photo of the now infamous Purple Ticket line by Kevin H. Officials have estimated approximately 4,000 ticket holders never made it inside the Swearing-In ceremony.
Attention all inaugural ticket holders who are still smarting over harrowing security gate experiences: the Presidential Inaugural Committee really does feel bad. To prove it, they are offering to give you free stuff. Said stuff is said to be copies of the Swearing-In invitation and program, photos of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, and a color print of the ceremony itself. Does this free stuff make up for you feeling super disappointed/having been actually frightened by an angry mob/spending money and time on something that you didn't get to experience? You tell us.
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That's awesome that they really want to make amends some how. The silly thing is, when I picked up my fancy pants purple ticket, the packet included (drum roll please): A copy of the Swearing-In invitation and program, and photos of President Obama and VP Biden. So that free stuff that I already have? Not really going to make my super-disappointedness subside.
sounds like leftovers...
These people should have been invited to the re-oath last night.
Lisa: Thank you, Mr. President.
Bill Clinton: No, thank you, Lisa. For teaching kids everywhere a valuable lesson: If things don't go your way, just keep complaining until your dreams come true.
Marge: That's a pretty lousy lesson.
Bill Clinton: Hey, I'm a pretty lousy president.
Well, aren't you full of apropos comedic dialogue today?
well, i need to offer an apology to everyone in the other thread when i said there was nothing for them to fight for here. guess there is something after all!
Well, since copies of the Swearing-In invitation and program, and photos of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden CAME WITH MY BUNK TICKET to begin with, I don't think a photograph of the ceremony is quite going to make up for not seeing it in person, but thanks PIC. Fail again.
Look, it sucks that there were problems. I most likely would've been majorly pissed, even more so if I had traveled far to come to inauguration. But it's time for people to get over this one. Sucks for you, sucks the police are unhelpful asshats, sucks you waited in line and all you got was this lousy soapbox to bitch from, but eyes on the prize folks.
If Oprah was there, she would have a least given them a car.
There is some tragic thought of hundreds of people walking into an underpass and coming into a huge human traffic jam.
Who didn't see this coming?
It sucks, life's not fair, no one got hurt, the Prez was safely installed, we got a lot of work to do, I need to get laid.
In that order or thereabouts.
Uhm, that's not PIC. That's the JCCIC. They're actually completely different, and PIC is not really at fault at all.
But cool?