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Obama's inauguration day: all that's missing is the Queen's golden coach [View all]
HA! Click for some British snobbery at the inauguration from Monday 1/21 edition of otherwise good news source The Guardian. Jonathan Freedland brings a historical perspective:
On Monday the avowedly egalitarian United States – which rejected all things regal when it broke from the British mother-country, insisting its president be known not as His Majesty but as plain Mister – anoints its leader with as much ceremony and ritual as it can muster. The oath, the address, the anthem, the parade: all that's missing is the Queen's golden coach.
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