Obama Inauguration
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 24: (L-R) NHL/Thurgood Marshall College Fund scholarship winner Richard Lucas of the Ed Snider Hockey Foundation, Thurgood Marshall College Fund Financial Officer Velma Hart, scholarship winner Donald Shaw III of the Fort Dupont Ice Hockey Club and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman pose for photographs with the Stanley Cup after a briefing on the state of hockey with members of the Congressional Hockey Caucus in the Rayburn House Office Building April 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. Lucas and Shaw are the inaugural receipients of the NHL/Thurgood Marshall College Fund scholarships.
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What Obama's formulation is ... the government is going to take the role of essentially providing all of those functions of civil society, of families, of churches ... and it is the only thing. If you listen to his second inaugural, basically, his entire formulation is there is government and there is the individual, and there is nothing in between.
Obama also confirmed rumors of going Gangnam Style during his second inauguration.
Those donations made up more than 40% of the total collected by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. In all, the committee reported net contributions of $43.2 million. That's $10 million less than organizers raised for Obama's first inauguration in 2009.More quotes »
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