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Obama began his speech by continuing the bipartisan tone of his two and-a-half month transition, congratulating former President George W. Bush for “the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition...
...Obamas concluded the evening by attending 10 official inauguration balls, with the new president giving a speech and the first couple dancing at each...
...tone of the speech was not defiant or angry, or celebratory, for that matter. It was resolute, suffused with sobriety, reflecting a tough-minded realism at home and abroad. Obama made clear that his domestic liberalism would be enacted conservatively. Where government programs can help, he said, "we intend to move forward." If they are useless or outdated, "programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits and do our business in the light of day." Overseas, he warned, "those who seek to advance their...
...Even more important, Obama promises a respite from the nonstop anger of the recent American political wars, the beginning of an era of civility, if not comity. "What the cynics fail to understand," he said in his speech, "is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply...
...politics, with the potential to be the most powerful citizen army in U.S. history. If so, it will more likely be a force for civility - for "boring" things like good governance, for new ideas about how to control the cost of entitlements (which Obama pointedly mentioned in his speech) - rather than a rabble spamming the offices of recalcitrant Republicans. It will fit neatly into the Obama zeitgeist...