2009 Inauguration of the Forty-Fourth President of the United States

Yall didn't know?
We had church.

Ms. Aretha humbly approached the front which is located right below the pulpit, aka the platform between the US Capital steps, and sung The Lord Heard My Cry (The Star Spangle Banner), that ol' slow slavery song that all real Baptist churches (Patriots) sing almost every Sunday morning. It had meaning - history that only the old folks really know about.

If we had to sit behind Ms. Aretha in the church's wooden worn-out pews, we wouldn't even see a lick of what was going on in the front, due to her silver church hat with a bow tilted on the side decked out with sparkling diamond trim!

Nope.

Graciously, the Lord would have given us a partial view of the Preacher's wife's fashionable gold attire, a.k.a The First Lady Michelle Obama, and a splintering view of the new Pastor, (President B. Obama, by the way) delivering a profound new message to the people "It's a New Day".

Yall, if ya didn't know, We had church.

But thank Gaawd !, we had balcony seats! (a.k.a live television and huge flat screens distributed among the congregation below).

First up, no doubt, was Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, aka the church secretary, making church announcements sprinkled with a hint of all the lowdown and scandal on what had happened within the church history among the evenings scheduled events:

I am delighted to announce this superb line-up of participants in the 2009 inaugural ceremonies. The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will be an event of historic proportion. It is appropriate that
the program will include some of the world's most gifted artists from a wide range of backgrounds and genres."

Why is this "event" an historic proportion? Like many churches, scandal hits them hard, and this one was no different. The former Pastor, a.k.a Former President George W. Bush had squandered the building fund money due to ignoring the choir's president's mismanagement of choir dues and ignoring their responsibilities (Bush Admin. ignoring corporate banks' bad investments), leaving the church in the red, big time (almost crashing economy). And this scandal topples over with the poor leadership of the former pastor himself (The IRAQ War)! The church's role as beacon of Jesus Christ within the community (aka, the US as the leader of the free world) is all but blackened with grime.

It was "an event" of an historic proportion because the church members, aka The American people, listened to their hearts and chose the unconventional, the-young-hope-filled-bright-eyed-then-minister-now-Pastor Barack H. Obama to lead Mount Shiloh Holy Trinity Church in God in Christ Episcopal Missionary Baptist Church Cathedral, aka, The United States of America! "It's a New Day", President Barack Obama preached on (aka his inaugural speech) and by choosing him out of all the old folks (McCain, Hilliary, Guilliani, Thompson, Hucklebee....McCain hehehe gotta count him twice!) was monumental.

We had church yall.

But let's be frank. The church secretary no doubt,aka Senator Dianne Feinstein, was always in support of the new Pastor, aka the President of the United States, Barack H. Obama. It's always like that. She was the one who always supported him from day one. As church secretary, somehow gossip and scandal flies her way to be sprinkled among the correspondence that she reads during church service. She knows what is bull and what's not. Mark my word, when it is time for the Pastor to retire, (Pres. Barack Obama after 8 years of service) she may receive his blessings to take his place. If the Lord can you use a donkey to get over his message, surely he could use a woman. Can I have an Amen?!

If you didn't know, it was church yall.

Like all churches, there's always a fashion show. So as the First Lady, aka First Lady Michelle Obama, holds the bible of one of the former reverend Pastors, aka President Abraham Lincoln, who united this church together centuries ago, it seems, the church fashionistas, the choir director, the organist, desperate single church ladies, and the old-married-drama-queens, (aka People Mag, EXtra, ET tv shows etc.), marveled over her attire and the First Daughter's, making mental notes to plunged through every fashion article known to man in hopes of hunting down where she bought them or more importantly, what fashion designer made them.

We had church.

Because after the Pastor, aka President Barack H. Obama, the Forty-Fourth President of the United States, finished preaching, folks got the Holy Ghost! Shouting, cheering, passing their babies among each other (strangers mind you), and tears tumbled down their cold-almost-frostbitten cheeks; and when the old wise deacon who really tells it like it is, aka Reverend Joseph Lowery, sealed it with his benediction; it was a done deal.

It was church yall. And if you still can't grasp the concept of it, remember Ms. Aretha's hat? It tells it all.

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