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First impressions

Justin Webb | 21:32 UK time, Wednesday, 21 January 2009

How was President Obama's first full day for you?

, hidden in plain sight as it were. But generally, I thought it was all rather quotidien, this bright shining moment in history.

The executive order to close Guantanamo Bay was not ready. Stem Cell research went unmentioned. And the changes in funding of charities that give abortion advice seems to have been hidden in a desk drawer by Rick Warren.

Best story of the day - Joe Biden's delicious joke that his memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'. (Mr Obama was stony faced as he listened. Senior White House staff groaned.)

Seriously folks: did the messing up of the oath matter?

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