Bill signing ceremonies are one of the rituals of our democracy. I remember one ceremony for a bill GWB signed, forget which one, but the picture was above the fold on the front page of the Times. Showed the audience arranged in a big crescent, facing the President and maybe a handful of bigwigs: Cheney, et.al. Best I could tell everyone in the room was a white male of a certain age, or above.
This post on the White House blog shows Obama signing the small business bill yesterday. Some nice diversity on the dais watching the signature, but below the dais seem to be a group of white males of a certain age, almost all of whom are displaying their shirt cuffs, simply because they're holding their cellphone/cameras above their head to capture the historic moment.
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