bartleby.com - 1/21/2009
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To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office. I ask the Congress to join with me. But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal. I challenge a new generation of young Americans to ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/21/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
Yesterday, President Obama delivered his Inaugural Address, calling
for a "new era of responsibility." Watch the video
here: ( download as high-quality .mp4 ) Inaugural Address My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, ...
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Blog Post - President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
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nytimes.com —
Following is the transcript of President Barack Obama
’s Inaugural Address, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: PRESIDENT
BARACK Thank you. Thank you. CROWD: Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama! My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task ...
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Transcript - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Text
news.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
Barack Obama 's inaugural address on Tuesday, as
delivered. OBAMA: My fellow citizens: I stand here today
humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush ...
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Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - ...
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Shared responsibility
Paul Krugman —
... , 2000: A hundred years from now, this must not be remembered as an age rich in possessions and poor in ideals. Instead, we must usher in an era of responsibility. Bill Clinton , 1993: We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
How Soon The Media Forgets
Suburban Guerrilla —
... our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
George W. Bush, 2000:
A hundred years from now, this must not be remembered as an age rich in possessions and poor in ideals.
Instead, we must usher in an era of responsibility.
Bill Clinton, 1993:
We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity ...
The Permanent Campaign
Weekly Standard Blog —
... value judgments one way or another, one is struck by how backward-looking and partisan President Obama's inaugural speech was. All inaugurals are principally forward-looking (you can peruse the entire oeuvre here) and Obama's was no exception. But what was exceptional was that nearly every forward-looking optic in Obama's speech was framed with an implicit criticism of the recent past.
Looking at other recent party-transition inaugurals (Reagan 1981, Clinton 1993, and George W. Bush 2001) makes clear how different Obama's was. Inaugurals ...
Obama and the End of the Democracy Agenda
Pajamas Media —
... part of Bush foreign policy; it has — at least on the level of rhetoric — been an integral part of American foreign policy as such for decades now. George W. Bush mentioned the words “democracy” or “democratic” three times in his second inaugural address in 2005 and three times in his first inaugural address in 2001 . Bill Clinton mentioned the word “democracy” five times (once in the plural) in his second inaugural address in 1997 and four times in his first inaugural address in 1993 . George H.W. Bush mentioned the word “democracy” five times in his ...
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