Celebrity

Oh, I do hope there is consideration of having Bush or Cheney body surf through the crowd...

As many as 1.5 million people may come for Obama inaugural festivities, according to officials at Destination DC, the District of Columbia's official convention and tourism corporation. By comparison, President Bush's inaugurations each drew about 300,000 people, according to Rebecca Pawlowski, a Destination DC spokeswoman.

The Secret Service, which is in charge of inauguration security, declined to say what it's anticipating in terms of crowds or how it intends to deal with it.

"We understand the historical nature of the event and we're responding accordingly," said Malcolm Wiley, a Secret Service spokesman.

Waiting for some right-wing blogger to be offended in 3...2...1...