Takie pytanie przewija sie przez media. Google zapusczone na “inauguration or coronation” zwraca dzis wieczorem prawie 400 tysiecy linkow. Dwa razy wiecej niz rano. A oto jeden z tekstow – przedstawiajacy europejski punkt widzenia:

The Coronation of King Obama

The fanfare with which the president-elect will be inaugurated on Tuesday reminds the BBC’s Katty Kay of the pomp and circumstance adorning the British royals. It’s a shameful way to treat a president.

Why am I coming over all queasy this week? Oh, yes, it must be coronation—sorry, inauguration—week in the federation of the United States. So this is why you booted us out a couple of centuries ago. You simply replaced the pomp and ceremony of hereditary monarchy and with the pomp and ceremony of elected monarchy. OK, you didn’t opt for the dynastic duo of Bush and Clinton, which really had us scratching our crowned European heads, but the fanfare with which Caroline Kennedy has entered the political picture suggests your infatuation with royal families is still not over.

Calosc dosyc ciekawa:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-18/the-coronation-of-king-obama/

Tutaj mamy:

“But what gets me is the pomp and circumstance before and after the actual legal transition of power: the concerts, the inaugural balls, and so forth. This is a republic, not a monarchy, and there is something untoward about spending tens of millions of dollars on inauguration celebrations, which seem to me more appropriate for a coronation of a king than an inauguration of a president. Worse yet, the money comes from various fat cats and special interests who hope to gain special favors from the new administration, and many of the events are dominated by the permanent political class that lives off the labors of the general public–it’s almost like they are taunting the rest of us…”

http://volokh.com/posts/1232498051.shtml

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http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/01/inauguration-or-coronation/

Proponuje pogoglowoac samemu. Haslo: inauguration or coronation