Obama is in, Bush is out

Im going to make this relatively short as most of what I am going to say has been said by many. Yay for Bush finally being gone. As one of the guys who I work with said after Obama's speech, we haven't had that kind of positive, well done speech in at least 8 years from a president.

I watched Obama's speech and ended up watching/listening to Rick Warren's invocation and Lowry's benediction prayers. Waste of time, but for the most part they weren't bad. Take out all the god drooling and it would have been super great but it could have been far worse as well. I also appreciate the fact that Obama once again reminded people that this is in fact not a Christian nation, but a nation of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and non-believers. Many are irked that he used a rather weak term, however I don't have a problem with this. Nonbelievers could include everyone who didn't fit the other religions he mentioned, and includes people like Bill Maher who don't want to label themselves as atheists. PZ mentioned that he would have liked to see that instead of nonbelievers that he had said freethinkers. Whereas I would be quite pleased if we had a president who said that, I can not fault him for not wanting to be that blunt (as freethinkers would be opposite of the other labels he used and implying that they were not).

Im excited to see what will happen in the next few months and see what he does. I do like the fact that he mentioned putting science back in its place at the top where it belongs, hopefully to fix some of the energy issues that we have so our planet lasts more than a few more years.

It will also be interesting to see what WingNutDaily has for the next few days.