Reply #39: I'll never forget this scene.... [View All]

WATERS: The objection is in writing, and I don't care that
it is not, is not signed by a Member of the Senate. (cheers, clapping)

AL GORE: The Chair will advise that the rules do care, uh, and (loud
cheering, clapping) ...

NARRATOR: Not a single senator came to the aid of the African-Americans
in Congress. One after another they were told to sit down and shut up.

REP. JACKSON: It's a sad day in America, Mr. President, when we can't
find a Senator to sign these objections...

AL GORE: Gentleman will suspend (bangs gavel, Jackson continues
talking), the gentleman will suspend.

DAN RATHER VOICEOVER: Inauguration coverage 2001 on a nasty but it could
be worse kind of day in Washington.

(cut to protestors)

NARRATOR: On the day George W. Bush was inaugurated, tens of thousands
of Americans poured into the streets of DC in one last attempt to claim
what had been taken from them. They pelted Bush's limo with eggs and
brought the inauguration parade to a halt. The plan to have Bush get out
of the limo for the traditional walk to the White House was scrapped;
Bush's limo hit the gas to prevent an even larger riot. No President had
ever witnessed such a thing on his inauguration day.