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motherjones.com - 1/20/2009
Obama's Inaugural Address: A Bad-Weather Speech for Bad-Weather Times
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With over a million exhilarated Americans filling the space between the civic shrines of the Capitol and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, President Barack Obama, in the first American inaugural address delivered by a black man, acknowledged the enthusiasm and hope he and his ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/21/2009
Blog Post - President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
— 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, ... (more) Blog Post - President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address

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Transcript - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Text
nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
Transcript - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Text
— 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 ... (more) Transcript - Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address - Text

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news.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - Yahoo! News
— 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 ... (more) Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address - ...

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President Obama's Bad-Weather Speech
David Corn — My take on President Obama's first speech, first posted at MotherJones.com.... With over a million exhilarated Americans filling the space between the civic shrines of the Capitol and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, President Barack Obama, in the first American inaugural address delivered by a black man, acknowledged the enthusiasm and hope he and his victory have inspired, but his speech was not overly celebratory. Instead, he attempted to guide the nation into what promises, due to circumstances heretofore beyond his control, to be ...

Early Morning Swim: Special First Post-BushCo Edition
Firedoglake — ... Big media reax here, here, here, here, and here. MoJo and The Nation weigh in.  Jane's thoughts here. The Arab world's reax. Sullivan has wingnut reax to the speech. HuffPo has ball roundups. Guess he's not a strict constructionist after all. He's lucky he only got booed. Obama's first day on the job. Obama Administration to halt Gitmo trials.  The White House gets a ...

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President Obama's inaugural address was cooler, more measured and reassuring than that of other presidents making it, perhaps, the right speech for the times.