Obama’s ’1 Percent’ Get Best Seats on Parade Route

WASHINGTON — The “one percent” have been allocated the best seats in the inauguration parade — right across the road from President Barack Obama’s seat, and well below the TV cameras’ angle of view.

The roughly 300 donors are wealthy, well-dressed and mostly white. They were bussed down from Capitol Hill, where they have viewed the inauguration, and were given hand-warmers and packaged lunches by staff as they arrived in their seating area.

Most were wearing a large square pin, carrying a gold symbol on an orange background. The pin allowed them their entree into the best-in-the-house seating area, just below the media’s four-story riser.

Their location gives them a level-eyed view of Obama as he reviews the parade from his heavily protected viewing stand in front of the White House grounds.

It also gives Obama a straight-ahead view of his primary donors.

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