Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic member of the high court, administered the oath of office to Vice President Biden before Obama was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Richard Blanco, the son of Cuban exiles, was the first Latino inaugural poet. Actress Eva Longoria led a Latino tribute to Obama that featured top Hispanic entertainers Sunday night.
"It all shows the power of Latinos in the country and how they're finally being recognized as movers and shakers," said Mryna Orozco, 22, an inauguration attendee from Kansas City, Mo.
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I love to see the 1st couple dance. It is so clear that they are in love with each other.
They have such a beautiful family and are such role models for Good Marriage.
Successful and Beautiful Inauguration of President Obama - Everything can be summarized with a word : DIVERSITY - America the diverse - It is also breathing a sigh of relief because America has been saved of a horrible destiny : Racist Plutocracy
What the GOP wanted was a Racist Plutocracy and Misogynist Theocracy, but the USA was saved by President Obama and the Democratic Party. ..... - I hope that the Republican Party becomes more tolerant and abandons its Racism and constant Dog Whistles.
But somehow the realist inside me trumps over the idealist. I know the Reality is that the GOP is very racist and filled with hatred and antagonism against all Minorities. And the theocrats are very powerful inside that Party.
The Republican Party has to lose two or three more Presidential Elections before it changes this behavior.
The fear that President Obama is going to transform America into a "Welfare State", expressed by intelligent and kind Republican Mr George F. Will is a wrong vision of the Future.
I don't know what sufferings or events in his formative years Mr Will had to undergo to be filled now with such a pessimistic idea. It just doesn't coincide or concatenate with reality.
Vicente Duque
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