America greets its 44th President Barack Obama with a deafening roar.Byline: ANI Washington, Jan.20 (ANI): There was a deafening roar which erupted among the crowd of hundreds f thousands of people, as President-elect Barack Obama was introduced at the Capitol before his wearing-in on Tuesday. The crowd greeted the President-elect to the stage shouting: "Obama, Obama". Earlier, thousands of spectators crammed cram v. crammed, cram·ming, crams v.tr. 1. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. 2. To fill too tightly. 3. a. To gorge with food. the street outside one of the security gates at the eremony Thursday. Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren delivered the invocation invocation, n a prayer requesting and inviting the presence of God. , calling for the nation to put its ifferences aside. "We know today that [the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.] and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting n heaven," Rick Warren stated in the prayer. Obama, sworn in using the same Bible that was used in Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, greeted ongressional leaders on a stage stretching across the front of the Capitol. Obama extended Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a warm hug after being introduced. (ANI) Copyright E 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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