VMI in Inaugural Parade

Here's what the networks missed :-)

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• VMI
• Inaugural Parade
• 2009
• Obama

[vmipiper]

I'd like to thank Bill Clinton for robbing us of the opportunity to experience this....jackass

[DoryokuFiripin]

Watching this makes me proud to be an American!

[adkinsc1]

@DoobNooby and @vmipiper, Bill Clinton "wouldn't let you go" because your state-sponsored PUBLIC university banned women until 1997. In 1993, when Pres Clinton was inaugurated, the Department of Justice was in the midst of suing VMI over its refusal to abide by the United States constitution.

I don't agree with Pres Clinton on much-- but bravo for refusing to reward bigotry and utter disregard for the constitution! And props to Pres Obama for inviting VMI back after the situation was resolved.

[pegasus619Q]

looks like toy soldiers. so sick.

[nanky432]

@vmipiper why?

[DoobNooby]

Bill Clinton wouldn't let me go, but he let the Nation Gay and Lesbian band go, wtf

[littlebigguy1103]

12 hundred?? bet the only people who got out of this were the sick, and the basketball and maybe wrestling teams...

[JLindsey757LAX]

What some of you fail to realize is our marches in the United States are shown for honor... Unlike North Korea and China who use it to demonstrate military power. So far they haven't impressed me... except in econ

[12hunterlot]

@vmipiper I love how in other countries, you get killed for insulting the government. In America, it is a national sport! Thank you to the men and women who defend our right to do so!

[ufee]

@bnctaj I know the military has played the biggest role in developing technology and infrastructure, which trickles down to society at some point, an unintentional side-effect. Still, the end result is always enhancing their ability to kill people and maintain dominance.

Marching, on the other hand, is just silly. There's a very clear distinction between marching and everything else the military does.

[bnctaj]

@ufee

Chinese and North Korean marchers don't have to deal with the aforementioned issue. Furthermore, your assertion that the "only non-killing activity the military" does well is marching reveals your ignorance and contempt for the military and ignorance towards the Virginia Military Institute, which is a college.

[ufee]

@bnctaj That doesn't matter. A march should be treated as a show, and these guys fail at entertaining me. Unlike, say, China or North Korea. This march is unimpressive, clunky and boring. The fact that this is so boring reveals their contempt for the audience and the fine art of marching.

I mean, come on. This is the only non-killing activity the military does well, and they fudge it all up.