In Obama’s Speech, Some Hear a Call to Action

Elizabeth Holmes reports on politics. Shortly after Barack Obama delivered his inaugural speech Tuesday, responses to his remarks solicited by The Wall Street Journal poured in from all around the world. (Read them all here .) Some of the most effusive comments came from the farthest away. In Kenya, Ken Aringo , a 35-year-old youth pastor from Obama’s father’s tribe, was beyond excited. “Obama is magical…that’s my boy!” he said. “I’m so proud of him. He’s made my little village so big.” For others, including Jeff Raikes , the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Obama’s speech was a call to action. “We look forward to seizing this new season with a sense of shared purpose, expanding the American dream for all students, and fixing our eyes on the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged,” Raikes wrote an email to Washington Wire. “We will count it a privilege to partner in our long-term efforts to find lasting avenues to health and prosperity for this generation and ... (link)