As the streets of
the nation’s capital were filling with hundreds of thousands of people,
incoming President Obama attended a church service with wife Michelle and Vice
President-elect Biden.
Obama made the
short trip to St. John’s Church in his presidential limo. He was joined at the
church by about 200 invited guests.
{mosads}At one point
during the service, keynote speaker Bishop T.D. Jakes looked directly at Obama
and said: “The problems are mighty and the solutions are not simple and
everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision
that you make. But you are all fired up, Sir, and you are ready to go. And this
nation goes with you. God goes with you.”
Jakes added: “I
say to you as my son who is here today, my 14-year-old son – he probably would
not quote scripture. He probably would use Star [Wars] instead, and so I say,
‘May the force be with you’.”
Following the
service, the Obamas went to the White House to have coffee with President Bush
and First Lady Laura Bush. Michelle Obama presented the outgoing first lady
with a gift upon arrival.