Admission to the Dawn of the Obama Administration For Sale at $20,000 a Pop

Tickets to a Presidential inauguration are highly prized, and perhaps none more so than tickets to the inauguration of Barack Obama. Tickets are available for free for anyone who is granted one by a member or staffperson of the Senate or House of Representatives.

But this time, something truly dismaying is happening. Tickets to the inauguration have made it into the hands of legitimate, totally legal ticket brokers, some of whom have reported that they are selling them for five figures, in some cases as much as $20,000.

Talk about elitist.

I'm just one little voice, but I've already written to the Obama administration via their new website, change.gov, to implore the President-Elect to assign some staffers to prevent this travesty, which smacks of everything cynical, bombastic, and usurious that Barack Obama has vowed to root out of the Federal government. Since the tickets are property of the Federal government, the brokers in question should be obliged to return them all, and the President-Elect's office should assure us that every single one will go to an individual who will actually attend, and for free.

Please join me in asking the President-Elect to put a stop to selling admission to the literal dawn of the Obama administration for more than what 60% of Americans earn in an entire year. You can reach the Obama administration at change.gov.