History and Joy
Jan. 20th, 2009 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamadebI just heard President Obama's (oh, those words) inaugural address. And it was beautiful - 20 minutes of a call to arms and a reminder of what makes us a great nation - a reminder that we ARE a great nation, and if he didn't promise kittens and rainbows, he did say what we all know - that joy comes from a job well done, something we have lost in recent years.
And every sentence was beautiful and I was crying by the end. We CAN reach our potential. We CAN. (And he mentioned non-believers and talked about putting science in its rightful place and spoke of the workers of this nation, its backbone and...sob.)
And every sentence was beautiful and I was crying by the end. We CAN reach our potential. We CAN. (And he mentioned non-believers and talked about putting science in its rightful place and spoke of the workers of this nation, its backbone and...sob.)
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President Obama
Date: 2009-01-21 12:02 am (UTC)Yes, it feels good. I'm going to type it again. President Obama.
Yes, we DID!
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Date: 2009-01-21 12:23 am (UTC)It was an amazing, amazing speech. What a difference, to be working towards something, rather than against it. Just an amazing day.
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Date: 2009-01-21 05:09 am (UTC)