Obama: the world's hottest ticket - Independent

14.01.09

In Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was busy applying Obama tattoos on the waistlines of two teenage girls. Other customers wanted them on their legs, arms and waistlines. "The smallest costs $50 (£35) and one the size of a softball will set you back $600," he said. "They can always be lasered away but so far they are loving them."

Starting this weekend, more than 10,000 buses as well as countless cars, trains and planes will ferry upwards of 4 million people into Washington, DC. Everyone is hoping to catch a glimpse of the new president during his inauguration and they will all have to squeeze on to wide expanse of grass between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial known as The Mall. The weather is expected to be freezing but dry.

Only a small number of those waiting for hours will manage to clap eyes on President Obama as his armour-plated limousine rolls by. Most of those on The Mall will have to make do with huge television monitors.

But that has not dimmed the excitement pulsing through the country. A gold-embossed invitation dropped through millions of letter-boxes this week, for what seemed to be the wedding spectacular of the year. The invitation said the "the presidential Inauguration Committee requests the honour of your presence to attend and participate in the inauguration", followed by the words Barack H Obama and Joseph R Biden Jr. There were shrieks of excitement as the envelope was ripped open. To the disappointment of all, the official letter was simply a commemorative keepsake as worthless as any other junk mail.

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