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Reading the paper this morning is hilarious.

What are they talking about? Well, Obama, obviously. You'd have to have the entirety of Europe catch fire before the newspapers would go with a different headline.
However, there's a problem.

You see, the inauguration was at 3am this morning. We were all asleep, and the papers had long since gone to the printers.

So we're getting a whole lot of phrases like:
Barring any unforseen circumstances, Mr Obama was sworn into office early this morning.


and
He was then expected to make a speech lasting fifteen minutes or so.


and
More than two million people were expected to witness the event.



It really is cracking me up...

Date: 2009-01-20 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com
*g* Our London evening freesheets (printed around 3-4pm here and therefore just missing all the action) were having fun with their tenses instead. 'President Obama will have taken office', 'millions will have watched' (is that the future perfect?).

Ah, time differences...

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