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...they could all say they were there, to stand together and glimpse a man in the very far distance accept the full weight of their hopes. That, in the end, is the source of Obama's power. What are we willing to let him do with his office, with a power greater than the one he had when he began this day? At his national-security briefing in the morning, Obama was instructed in the use of the nuclear codes, should he ever have to launch a strike. Once he was sworn in, once the 21 guns had saluted...
...hard to let go sometimes, and some men have attempted to regain the nation's top spot. Martin Van Buren, whose term ended in 1841, ran again twice for the presidency, once in 1844 and again on the Free Soil ticket in 1948. (He lost.) Teddy Roosevelt, in between African safaris and expeditions to uncharted Amazonian rivers, ran for a third term on the Bull Moose ticket. He was shot right before a campaign stop, yet was hearty enough to deliver his speech with the bullet lodged in his chest. (Still, TR lost.) Millard Fillmore ran a disinterested campaign...
...more spending anyway. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was not inclined to permit Democrats in Congress to look for ways to prosecute outgoing Bush officials over their conduct on the war or their authorization of torture. And Obama, in contrast to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is content to let the Bush tax cuts of 2001 expire in 2010 rather than repeal them. That is not a fight he needs now, even if it makes good economic sense to roll them back...
...people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with...
...let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: "Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when...