2012 inauguration to draw less than half 2008 crowd…

By Clash Daily / 26 December 2012 / 81 comments

Screen Shot 2012-12-26 at 10.08.35 AM Visitors coming to the nation’s capital for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration can’t stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan’s family once called an eight-star hotel. That spot is the White House, and it’s booked for the next four years.

Still, inauguration-goers have a range of lodging options – from crashing on a friend’s couch to reasonably priced rooms to ones that cost thousands of dollars a night.

With second inaugurations tending to draw fewer spectators, finding a place to stay in Washington won’t be nearly as difficult as in 2009.

City officials are expecting 600,000 to 800,000 visitors for the Jan. 21 inauguration, far less than the 1.8 million people who flooded the National Mall four years ago to witness the inauguration of America’s first black president. Back then, some hotels sold out months in advance and city residents rented out their homes for hundreds of dollars a night. This time, hotels say they’re filling up more slowly, with rooms still available and prices at or slightly below where they were four years ago.

“Very few hotels are actually sold out at this point, so there’s a lot of availability,” said Elliott Ferguson, CEO of the tourism bureau Destination DC, who added that he expected demand to pick up after Christmas.

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Todd

You watch. Obama will be one of the best President’s in US History after it’s all said and done. You guys are haters and racists!
- iamtrue
  
  What ? Please the scum bag is a total loser and you are just one of his minions. Providing the title is true. This is a good sign for we TRUE Americans. HA take that loser.
- Hilly
  
  Oblahblah is THE worst president this country has ever seen. I’m a hater of anti-Americans. I’m a hater of dictators. I’m a hater of dishonesty. I’m a hater of hypocrites. I’m a hater of people who constantly blame others in stead of accepting blame for problems they create. Yes, I am a hater. I wear that badge proudly. Stick that in your Koolaid drinking butt hole.
- Joseph C Moore USN Ret
  
  Todd, you are an A##h### if you truly believe that. You are correct about the hate, as PATRIOTS hate what this destroyer of the Constitution, economy, liberty that was earned with the blood of our forefathers
  - undunder
    
    Todd can’t help it. He’s drank so much kool-ade that his faculties are impaired. We need t lay off before he cracks and goes postal.
- DrewbeScrewed
  
  You lost any validation to your comment as soon as the race card was played. But keep it up, as it’s loosing it’s value for you suckers on the left the more it’s played. Love it…and besides…we just want him to go away and not come back, that’s not hate, just a good dream to aspire to.
  - Dulceb
    
    Yes, don’t go away mad, just go away.
    - a
      
      AND take obamy with YOU!!!!
- Floyd
  
  In all fairness to you:
  
  Please share what his accomplishments to date are that would put him or might put him in this elite category and what do you foresee over the next four years.
  
  I have seen absolutely nothing in the first four years. Please enlighten.
  - YomamaYo
    
    TODD!! Oh yes… do tell us what to expect, tell us what groundwork has been laid by Obama in order to become one of the “best” when all is said and done. Oh, we await these revelations, as we must have been looking in all the wrong places for his accomplishments. Oh, thank you soooo much for sharing these accomplishments.
  - undunder
    
    He has a powerful resume; it’s all a big lie and the lib spin creates such a high g-force that the country is drunk on obama. Luckily,, I do not imbibe.
- Hugh Billeaud
  
  Not a chance. The first four years have already determined that. Todd, your head is buried in the sand my friend.
- del
  
  You need to blather on suckingon post where other dole takers stay!
- Tonto
  
  The problem with liberals is that they claim to welcome discussion with those of opposing views and then are surprised that there actually are opposing views. More likely, you, yourself are the intolerant hater, racist, ignorant, bullying and supercilious poser that most liberals are in this conversation. Such people are tiresome and if nothing proved the character of liberal scum better….the ows filth sure did. You bore me….so disappear.
- Dulceb
  
  Hello, Todd, you have to actually accomplish something to be great. Usually, it is something positive. In this case, perhaps, his greatest accomplishment is to be the greatest Pied Piper of them all. The mindless sheep that dance to his tune can chant his name as they watch everyone lose their dreams and country.
  So, if the bar is lowered to the ground on greatness yet again, you may be right.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GR2F7ZHJRA2AVVT7CXGNBNXLY4 Dorris P
  
  What flavor of cool aid are you drinking from Barracks Barrel. I get so amazed to hear about the amount of people that can’t read well enough to do research.If they did they would know more about they are defending a person they know absolutely NOTHING ABOUT, HEY, his records are sealed for a reason. If you knew who he was and what he stands for, you would know it wasn’t for the GOOD OF AMERICA.
  TODD, it is the STUPID THAT BELIEVE WHAT PEOPLE SAY ,INSTEAD OF WHAT THEY MEAN.
  ACT LIKE YOUR ONE OF THE INTELLAGENT PEOPLE AND SEE HOW MUCH YOU CAN TELL US ABOUT BARACK?(HIS for starters)
- Marlin208
  
  Todd, put down your crack pipe and get into the real world. Ok, if that is how you really feel tell me one thing, just one that makes him the best president ever.
  One thing that he has done in FOUR years to make this country better. One thing that he has done in FOUR years to make it easier for the working man to keep his head above water. And now he is raising the taxes on ALL of us and killing the military. So please tell me, what has he done to make him the best president ever.
- Poodleguy
  
  No no no!! You are a stupid phuque if you believe the lies that you are telling yourself. Do you not read or watch what is going on in this nation & what is happening in the middle east??? Oh, if you are black, we understand, oh boy, do we understand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- MARYANN33
  
  Such lies and deceit should not be happening in America. This guy is qualified in no way…He is the King of the Muslims…if he is anything..He is scum.
- john Goult
  
  Your right he will. But it’s also said that he who “wins” wright’s the History! Not that it will be the RIGHT History, but only his history. And if one look’s at it so far what do you find? No School Record’s, A “S,S,I” card from Conn? No Collage record’s, Pass Port for travel during his so called Collage year’s. FATHER Was an English, Subject, Not an AMERICAN. His mother was not old enough to convey Citizenship. Friend’s with A COMMUNIST BILL AYERS Van Jones, V. Jerret. Need I go on? So much for HIS History! Being RE-Written? You bet it will be.
- undunder
  
  Bless your little heart…what are you smoking?
  
  I was never a racists until I learned it from the best – barrack hussein obama mmm, mmm, mmm. I have many friends from all walks of life including minorities, but the difference is I have intelligent friends – not those who mindlessly vote lock step for democrats regardless of their resumes or lack there of. You know the kind? They do what they’re told with the expectation of a payoff somewhere down the road. Kind f like those stupid supreme court justices esp. kagan and sotokissmybutt and that goofy ginsburg. I’m ashamed to share a gender with these twits. But I digress.
- Stan
  
  No Todd, you are the racist. A bad president is a bad president, period. Most of us are expressing our disgust with what is happening in this country, and the failure of this president to do anything about it! Except of course to make it worse! So why would any of us go to see the same old thing repeated?
Thom56

Todd you are racist because you want to hang onto handouts from the Democrats and they want to keep you in their control. Obama is the illegitimate son of registered communist Frank Marshall Davis not Obama Sr. Regardless, this president wants to destroy the America immigrants, LEGAL IMMIGRANTS eagerly seek!
Joseph C Moore USN Ret

Who among patriotic Americans would want to witness the illegal ceremony of this unknown, non-vetted usurper of the office? This is, without doubt, the most flagrant fraud ever perpetrated on the citizens of the United States. The ceremony will be a TRAVESTY!
- MARYANN33
  
  Why is this country going to let it happen. The machines were rigged. He did not win. He could not win except to cheat. How will we ever have an honest elections again..Best idea is to make the White House a gun free area…
  - a
    
    It is obvious. We live in a communist state under the democrapic party….
- sn
  
  When is the democratic party going to get penalized for bringing forth someone who was not vetted, should not be in office and has committed crimes against the USA?!! Let’s see a genuine birth certificate. Make all his records available to the public. How did he get a grant for college as a foreign exchange student? And then get put forth as a presidential candidate for the democrapic party??!!!!!
Joseph C Moore USN Ret

Who, among patriotic citizens, would want to attend the illegal ceremony of the unknown, non-vetted usurper of the office of the presidency of the United States? This has to be the greatest TRAVESTY ever perpetrated on the American public by the socialist/Communist myrmidons
- del
  
  you got that right Joseph! Ugly indeed
- Sandra Lee Smith
  
  Well, it’s one they’ve been working on for over a century, and there have been some “warning signs” along the way: Wilson, FDR, LBJ. Clinton… those were the more OBVIOUS ones, but Bushes, even Ike and Reagan did some things that SHOULD have set off FAR more alarm bells than were sounded anywhere!
- MARYANN33
  
  You said it all…How can we re inaugurate this fraud. Why would we spend that money. Cut the inauguration first on the cliff. He has to go to prison. He is a criminal. The voting machines were rigged..Romney really won.
- Lee
  
  Better question yet, is why is this TRAITOR even looking at being inaugurated In the first place. Why aren’t our representatives doing their jobs, and just putting him in prison, where he belongs??? Everyone whines that he is committing crimes against the constitution, and our country, and wringing their hands, and just letting him get away with the total destruction of the greatest nation in the world!!! We elected them, and they are acting like he belongs there, and kowtowing to his every whim. I just don’t get it! They need to purge the White House of this vile monster.
- r
  
  You can blame the dumbocrats. They picked it twice. Great back-up too. GOD help US!
Doug Ferguson

The bad news: we have four more years of the best snake oil seller since the father of lies persuaded Eve to partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The good news: at least it’s only four years. Too bad presidential terms aren’t limited to a single six-year term. It would save a boatload of campaigning and two years’ lost productivity.
4lifeandfreedom

History will be re-written to make it sound as though he was the best president. Obama already wrote a fantasy about his childhood days and delivered it at Senator Inouye’s funeral! Sounds like all of the “dreams of his childhood” that never happened.
Randolph Rivers

Todd you are part of the problem. To stupid to know better. Sad just sad how stupid Americans have become. God Bless this once great nation.
Kat

Sorry I’m busy!
I too would like to know Obama’s accomplishments!
Pushing thru health care behind closed doors!
Benghazi ?
Fast and Furious?
Tax hikes?
Giving millions to green companies that have all failed?
Bailing out car companies?
Syria?
Hurricane Sandy, no red tape?
You didn’t build that!
Forging the job numbers so they had to be corrected. Each time.
Need I go on?
Please anyone that has a positive write them down.
- taliesin319
  
  Rapid and severe weight loss with no mention made in regard to his health.
- http://www.facebook.com/MagEakaWebutante Margaret Nahmias
  
  That’s why I cringed when I someone wrote he was the best president ever/
2pvtyork17

This is a Liberal rag trying to get more viewers of this so called President being sworn in. Its a ploy folks what a press storm it would be with headlines “More people to see President O’Vomit Sworn in than ever in American History”. Its true he got the majority of votes(by Hook or Crook) and America voted its freedom out as well. Shame on us.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GR2F7ZHJRA2AVVT7CXGNBNXLY4 Dorris P
  
  No he didn’t get in on VOTES,There aren’t that many stupid people out there that would put our COUNTRY in the hands of a MARXIST.
  And LIKE THE MARXIST they are THIEVES QAND LIARS, Check back on HISTORY and see if Barack don’t have a lot of the same ideas and plans like HITLER.
  You defending him will not put you in his favor he uses IDIOTS that can’t read well enough to research.
  If you and others like you would read you would know HITLER HAD A HORRIABLE DEATH also GADDAFI at the hands of the people, they BOMMED HITLERS BUNKER and BEHEADED GADDAFI,Ran other so called leader out of there country, DOES BARACK and his PUPPETERS BELIEVE THEY WILL SURVIVE??
  SO I would Say people do BAD THINGS WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN USED FOR SOME ONE LIKE BARRACK JUST TO FEED HIS EGO.
http://www.facebook.com/pmcconathy1 Phil McConathy

No self respecting American Patriot would waste their hard earned money to watch this narcissist get sworn in for 4 more years of his destruction of America. Most of his supporters are home watching it on their large flat screen TV’s and waiting for their EBT cards and welfare checks to arrive in the mail.
ChrisCrossCharleston

“Todd” is speaking for the majority that voted for Obama. There were two types of people at the polls: those who work and those who vote. It has been said that “it is doubtful that the majority has ever been right” and the election of Obama two times is enough to qualify that statement to be true. When people who do not pay taxes and are on the government payroll are allowed to vote then this is what happens. History is being repeated…just look at the political and empire fall of Rome. They (Rome) could write our (USA) obituary. People like Todd vote even if they are not really “qualified”, in my opinion to be allowed to vote. Get off the food stamps, move out of HUDD housing, quit receiving a “tax rebate” that was not earned and so forth and then prove you have the right to vote! See how many would have given Obama another term! LOL LOL LOL
- http://www.facebook.com/gordon.castle Gordon Castle
  
  I’m in agreement … If you are on ANY sort of government assistance you forfeit your right to vote, to be reinstated after you are once again a contributing member of society.
  - MARYANN33
    
    Just stop the illegals and fraud pres would be done. Yhey lie and cheat in plain sight. They have no shame. No voter ID in many states so they could illegally win???? We have fallen very very low…
  - r
    
    I’m retired after 60+ years of paying taxes. And I did not vote for this imposter………..
agbjr

Why would any Constitution-abiding United States Citizen – or anyone in their right mind – want to witness an event welcoming the demise of Liberty and the Republic?
- MARYANN33
  
  That would be a good time to march on Washington with signs and flags flying. Pickett the fraud pres and BOO…..
Niggishzidda

Apparent that his PEEPS can not afford or don’t want to spend the $$$
tedthebear

I wouldn’t piss on bho if he was on fire! Why would anyone, in their right mind, pay good money to see an illegal muslim denigrate our country!
Poodleguy

The inauguration will be held in Jan, 2013 & the previous one was held in Jan, 2009!!!
James

Evolve Todd. Go marry your boyfriend.
http://www.facebook.com/barbjeanpatton Barb Patton

One thing which must be admitted to and that is the fact that the ayatollah barack hussein obama is not only blessed with latte coloring but has a skin as thick as a hide!!! He does not care a tinker’s benediction whether one person attends or a trillion… He won the price – so what the hell?!! He also knows that his puppet masters will see the left leaning tv channels vomit out the inauguration on all channels every hour on the hour, Thus said – why waste the money to go to see it in person??Q.E.D
Bill Weston

I wonder how many people can’t afford to attend; Especially in the face of the administration’s “economic stimulus package”. Perhaps George Soros et.al. can help fund attendance, another “stimulus package” from the private sector. Stipulated the novelty of a “black president” has worn off, but funding another 200,000 to 400,000 attendees would help keep up appearances. Isn’t that the way totaltarian socialism works? “Everone receives according to their need and everyone contributes according to their ability.”
medivac

I, for one, will not attend !! I didn’t even go to where Bil Clinton was campaigning for John Kerry back in 2004 locally because I wouldn’t let my morals be lowered to his ideas !! I don’t respect obama one small bit but I do respect the officer he holds !! He has done nothing to gain my respect !!
fedupinky

I’d rather watch a maggot on a piece of rotten garbage than watch this POS be inaugurated. At least the maggot does something useful. A pox on him and his party, both political and inaugural.
Hank

What will be truly bone chilling scary is when oboober will adress the crowds with his Heil Hitler salute. He is about to wet his panties in getting America to become a worthless land mass. He has been reading from the Hugo Chavez manual word for word merely checking off each necessary step. He already has well over half of America in the Ignorant Class to what is happening. When Oboofer slams the Boot of Marxism down on our freedoms, liberties, and Constitution fully, maybe just maybe Americans will wake up? Doubtful. Heck, he pretty much already has done so.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1025500368 Rick Eastlund

How come so many people on these sites cannot spell the very simple word “losing”, instead spelling out “loosing”. Lose or loose. one means not tight, sloppy, floppy. the other means not keeping it, letting it go, as in we need to lose this pos nobama.
stinger

Amen to that D Kalember USNR
taliesin319

It will be the biggest gathering of Cretan Idiots ever assembled to worship an
Amaourotic Family Idiot.
deseartu1

Sounds like a great opportunity for all the KKK fans to march in the mall!
- MARYANN33
  
  Picket the inauguration….massively….Show the opposition to this bogus fraud.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Elizabeth-Clark/1034112636 Elizabeth Clark

I for one if I had 50 mil wouldn’t want to see this person get re-elected, we need to stop people from voting if they are on assistence from the govt period. That in itself would have stopped him getting re-elected. Too bad were so stupid
gypsy314

I would not want to be any were near this traitor that time will should destroyed a free nation.
CaptTurbo

I say if he wants a big crowd now it would have to be at his hanging.
- MARYANN33
  
  That would be the time to show up. I thought treason would be a firing squad.
  - CaptTurbo
    
    I think either would be fine but perhaps better yet a group of his fellow Chicago gangsters with baseball bats. That way we could avoid the “gun violence” they are trying to get everyone so whipped up about.
Pendy1

So bus in from Cleveland and Philadelphia however many it takes to fill the house. Works for voting.
JEANNE M.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: I believe that before a person can receive his/her voter registration card, they should be required to take a simple civics test. Just as when a person is going to apply for a driver’s learner’s permit, and they are given a handbook to take home and study, they should be given a handbook on how our government works. When they think they know the information, they can go back and take the test, and if they pass, they get their voter card WITH their photo ID on it!
As we have learned (very painfully), elections DO have consequences! With something as important as our nation’s future at stake, I want people who are at least reasonably intelligent to be the ones who chose our elected officials.
Oh, and the test would be in English! If you can’t read or understand English, go home and learn it!
Barbara

A bunch of jack asses celebrating the grand daddy of all jack asses.
May-PA

I don’t understand why there has to be a 2nd inauguration if the person is already president. Why not just get sworn in and go on? Why spend all that money?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Luci-Tomlin/100000585005536 Luci Tomlin

STILL without Documentation, Certificates of ANY kind including Graduation, College! No records, record of Degrees, proof of attendance, proof of background, information of past associations, history of involvement with organizations and or groups who were not anti-American, no skills, work record except for a short stint in an ice cream kiosk in Hawaii, no record of what he was doing during the first twenty years he was on the mainland when no one knew him except for a few rebels like the senior Ayers, their son Bill, and other criminal, Anti-American Radicals. And then STILL without batting an eyeball, and the minorities STILL on a “sugar high” from the last time, existing without a smidgin’ of protein and the echo of past promises, helped carry him through again! Lord help us! He is the only one who CAN!
http://www.facebook.com/jimdshipley James Shipley

LAST TIME NOBODY MISSED WORK TO GO. THIS TIME THE UNEMPLOYMENT MONEY MUST BE RUNNING LOW.
JEANNE M.

I say we hope and pray for the biggest blizzard of the century to hit Washington, D.C. on inauguration day!!!
JEANNE M.

I remember receiving an email a few years ago with photos comparing the aftermath of the first inauguration of the Bummer with the aftermath of the big Tea Party Rally. The Tea Party left the area immaculate, in fact, most likely, cleaner than the way they found it. The inauguration crowd left the area like a garbage dump…trash, litter, and garbage everywhere. It will be interesting to see what the area looks like after this next inauguration.
Randy Gaiser

My dog would make a better President than either Obama or Biden. My dog has more sense, is more loyal and is by far smarter, then either one of them.
I wouldn’t go to this BAS_ARDS inauguration if they paid me 1/2 of the expense of this travesty in gold. I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of thinking I agreed with anything he stands for.
john Goult

And just WHAT does that tell you? Time is short to get rid of this POS 1/2 white guy
Libsrlintlickers

To be seen at the Iniggeration would be a total EMBARASSMENT! Hey idiots, save your money as you will need it to support the out of control spending habits of your Lord and Master who has accomplished absolutely NOTHING except SPIT on the American people, BANKRUPT and RUIN our economy and wipe his hairy ASS with our Constitution……..
What a great guy!!
Stan

I dont think any conservatives will be there! And you see enough of his ugly mug on TV, so who needs it in person, like you could any way.They had better save their money as they will need it shortly!
Ron

Nobody has the nuts to do anything about it.
http://www.facebook.com/carol.l.thomas.35 Carol Lea Thomas

I would not go to this inauguration if I got free tickets at the best hotel in Washington with a free spa, free tickets to the ball. a chaufer driven limo to all festivities, all the finest food for all my family members,a new fur coat and a new wardrobe. Ill just stay down on the farm and pray that we still have a country left in four more years

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