Tickets to President Obama’s Inauguration
On January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC, President Elect Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Public interest and attendance at Obama’s inauguration is expected to be massive.
George Washington took the first oath of office at Federal Hall in New York City. Thomas Jefferson was the first to give his address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
Since then, all other presidential inaugural addresses have been made from the steps of the Capitol Building, except for FDR’s address starting his 4th term, which he made at the White House.
Obama’s inaugural address theme is "A New Birth Of Freedom," a phrase taken from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. “…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” And 2009 is also the 200th anniversary of birth if Abraham Lincoln.
Yet getting one of the 250,000 tickets to the inauguration will be tough. 
Member of Congress each receive a very limited supply of free tickets to President Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, and most distribute them on a first-come, first-served basis.
To request your tickets, visit your Congressional Representative’s website. You can find your representative’s website at http://www.house.gov/.
If you fail to get tickets, you can still attend the inauguration, without them,you’ll just have to deal with at least the 250,000 people in front of you.
Some tickets are already being sold online, by ticket brokers. One CNN report noted tickets for sale by a broker for over $20,000. And as a result, Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the inauguration committee, stated that she may ask Congress to make it a Federal crime to scalp inauguration tickets.
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7 opinions for Tickets to President Obama’s Inauguration
Mary Douglas
Nov 13, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I would love to have tickets to President Obama’s Inauguration. I think tickets should be given to regular people, because we are the ones who cannot afford to buy tickets and we are a representation of what America really stands for. To give 2 tickets to a real couple would be history itself and a blessing from GOD
I am really hoping I can attend President Obama’s Inauguration.
Jon
Nov 13, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Hopefully, tickets will be given to fat cat supporters AND everyday voters.
Roderick Marshall
Nov 17, 2008 at 11:54 am
I agree with Mary Douglas, but also understant that we can’t alway get what we would like at a time like this. If I can’t have tickets. Maybe a visit with President Obama at the white.
Jon
Nov 18, 2008 at 12:47 am
You can still attend the inauguration without tickets, you’ll just bebehinds the quarter million people with tickets.
salena wilkinson
Nov 22, 2008 at 2:17 am
I would like to have tickets no I would love to have tickets to my President Obama’s inauguration. I will be comeing to D.C from danville kentucky and I hope that some how I can get to tickets but I also know that thing can helping with the grach of God. Thank you
Slena Wilkinson
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Dec 8, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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Sabrina Sumpter
Jan 8, 2009 at 8:24 am
I think that free tickets should be given to those who are less fortunate than others. I am just struggling to live pay check to paycheck I will never be able to attend this event. I would love to be a part of this birth. This is a fire that will be kindled that no one would be able to take away from me, this is history. Thank God, I have a chance to be in the number. Please help support an ordinary person with a hunger to be a part of this powerful day.
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