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Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog: Our democratic tradition
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Obama on the inauguration: "All Americans hold within our hands the promise of a new beginning."
Daily Kos: Obama: Reaffirming Our Love of Country and Democracy
Our democratic tradition
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog —
In his final weekly address before assuming office, President-elect Barack Obama speaks about the upcoming Inauguration activities, a tradition at the heart of our democracy.
This year’s inauguration will be the most open and accessible in history. Thousands of people will come together—not just in the capital, but across the nation—to serve their communities and ring in a new era of change in America.
Watch the final Weekly Address from the President-elect below. ...
Obama on the inauguration: "All Americans hold within our hands the promise of a new beginning."
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
For the last time as president-elect, Barack Obama delivered the weekly radio address. Next time he does it, he'll be President Obama. Today, he talks about the meaning of the inauguration and the power of our American democracy (which is slowly starting to feel like a democracy again): ...
Obama: Reaffirming Our Love of Country and Democracy
Daily Kos —
In his weekly address this morning, President-Elect Barack Obama contemplates a rite "that goes to the heart of our greatness as a nation." ... Inaugurations have taken place during times of war and peace; in Depression and prosperity. Our democracy has undergone many changes, and our people have taken many steps in pursuit of a more perfect union. What has always endured is this peaceful and orderly transition of power. For us, it is easy to take this central aspect of our democracy for granted. But we must remember that our nation was founded at a time of Kings and Queens, and even today billions of people around the world ...
Election Central Saturday Roundup
TPM Election Central —
Obama: Let Us Celebrate The Peaceful Transfer Of Power
In his new Presidential YouTube Address, his last one before the inauguration, Barack Obama recognizes the importance of the transition of power, and how we often take the peaceful transfer of power for granted:
"Through the ages, many have struggled for the right to live in a land where power does not belong to one person or party, and many brave Americans have fought and died to help advance that right," Obama says. "Through the long twilight struggle of the Cold War, our transitions from one President to the next provided ...
Time to Get Involved
Booman Tribune —
Here's Obama's Saturday address: And here is his message on the launching of Organizing for America and what it means for you: link . It's time to shed just a little bit of your cynicism and get to work. It's time to get involved in a positive way.
