One Moment In Time

Jan 20, 2009 No Comments by Sietse

He looks nervous. Chin up. Red tie. Barack. Then, the amicable, big smile of Joe Biden. Blue tie. Dick Cheney in a wheelchair. As CNN covers the soon-to-be ex-Vice President’s arrival at the Capitol, a woman is laughing hard in the background. Awkward. All those people in Washington. All those people watching on television. All those people on Facebook. Twitter is slow. Or down. Facebook is slow. Ladies and gentlemen, the President-Elect of the United States, Barack H. Obama. No Hussein? The public cheers. The world is watching. They pray. His mother-in-law peaks at him as Barack prays. Joseph learned his lines. They’re late! A new website for the White House. Congratulations, Mr. President.

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Sietse Bakker (25) is a young entrepreneur, communications and pr consultant, speaker and writer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At the age of 19 he founded MediaBattery, and since 2006 he is Manager Communicatie & Public Relations of the Eurovision Song Contest. Read more..
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