What Were They Thinking?

Many well-known Chicagoans were in attendance at the inauguration. Here’s our best guess as to what each was thinking as they watched Barack Obama get sworn-in as president.

Roland Burris: This is amazing! I can’t believe I’m the junior senator from Illinois!

Dick Durbin: This is amazing! I can’t believe Roland Burris is here as the junior senator from Illinois!

Pat Quinn: I wonder what the utility rate structure is like here in D.C.

Jesse Jackson Sr.: I never thought this day would come - I always thought I’d be the first black president!

Jesse Jackson Jr.: I never thought this day would come - I always thought I’d be the first black president!

Richard M. Daley: Heh-heh. Heh-heh-heh. Heh-heh.

William M. Daley: I still can’t believe Rich is mayor and I’m not.

Rahm Emanuel: *#&$&^#(@&!

Arne Duncan: I just figured it out! He always lowers his right shoulder before driving the lane to his left! You’re dead, Obama! 

John Cusack: Memo to self: movie starring me as America's first black president . . .

Oprah: God I feel fat . . . Barack is hot . . . is that John Cusack? He's such a phony . . . why can't Stedman be president . . . god I need a Xanax.

And some who were not there:

Rod Blagojevich, in his den in Ravenswood: *#&$&@(@(*!

Jeremiah Wright, in a bar in D.C.: That ungrateful SOB . . .

Tony Rezko, in a prison day room: That ungrateful SOB . . .

Bill Ayers, rebuffed by Canada: I wish I knew Obama better . . .