Congratulations, Mr. President!

The inauguration was a splendid event and you gave yet another great speech.



Video of Inaugural Speech

Text of Inaugural Speech

Here are a few excerpts from your speech that I liked most:

"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside...

Swingshiftworker

Here's a link to Obama's "We Are One" Concert Address given on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Monument in Washington DC on January 18, 2009 -- -- the same steps where Martin Luther King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 and only a few days after MLK's 80'th Birthday on January 15, 2009.

"We Are One" Speech

Here's a link to the entire concert, but you'll need a very fast 1.7MB/sec if you want to see and hear it in...

Swingshiftworker

Denial and delusion. The world is NOT safer and the US is far worse off both politically and economically following your incompetent administration. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Goodbye and good riddance!!!

Bush's Farewell Address - January 15, 2009

Bush Leaving Washington after Obama's Inauguration as the 44th President of the United States

Swingshiftworker

In the words of General (Ret) Eric K. Shinseki, Obama's appointee to serve as Secretary of Veterans Affairs:

"You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader," he said. "You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance."

Shinseki is a TRUE patriot, a retired 4 star general who served...

Swingshiftworker

This is the speech that started it all!

"In no other country on earth is my [Obama's] story possible." . . . "There is not a liberal America. There is not a conservative America. There is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America. There's the United States of America." . . . "There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq....

Swingshiftworker