Almost as a symbol of what is to come in Barack Obama’s second presidential term beginning this holiday weekend, a sharp but refreshing winter blast blew through usually-staid Washington and brought many hundreds of thousands to the National Mall to celebrate his inauguration.
Even as temperatures dropped to nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit and numbed the fingers of any would-be tweeters from the inauguration site on Capitol Hill, the 44th President appeared both pleased and determined as strongly hinted at the liberal policy agenda that might follow over the next four years.
Repeatedly invoking the “We, the people” clause of the U.S. Constitution in his rich baritone, Mr. Obama stressed equality of all man as he promised to effect change in the policy spheres of gay rights, environmental campaigns, gun control legislation and comprehensive immigration reform.
Paying tribute to recent tragic events such as the Newtown shootings and Hurricane Sandy Mr. Obama said, “Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm.”
While he had struck a far more conciliatory note after winning last November’s election, almost holding out hope to build bridges with a Congressional opposition that has blocked him at every turn, conservatives may have found his tone a little more jarring this time.
In an unapologetic reference to what he believed was the government’s role he said, “Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.” He also hit out at what he described was the mistaking of absolutism for principle, the substitution of spectacle for politics, or and at treating “name-calling as reasoned debate.”
Egged on by the crowd’s chants of “Four more years!” the President’s delivery of the speech was emotional towards its climax, after which he warmly hugged the First Lady and his two daughters, and Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife.
Well done Mr President, having completed a period of uncertainities
resulted from global ecconomic crisis. At your swearing in ceremoney,
You should have also mentioned about your shortfalls during your
tenure in the office. Tears are still not dried up in the eyes of
mothers whose beloveds are brutally assasinated in the school shoot
out. You have mentioned about gun control to alleviate the grieved
public, but how you will go about the same in a country where the main
source of income is by selling amunitions to the war hungry nations.
You may be kind at heart but still you will wear the same shoes of
your precedessors in a world full of competitions and power crazy
polititions.Hope you will be able to complete your terms without
pushing Iran and North Korea to another conflict which will definitely
drain the oil reserves of the entire globe.You still have a role to
play to settle the bi-lateral issues between arch rivals India and
Pakistan, which we hope you will do most impartially
The whole world beholds this traditional ceremony in high expectations. Now that Mr. Obama has finished his first term in the White house with mixed achievements, he has greater responsibilities in redressing the existing issues at hand and the issues that the obscure future will throw at him, in response to the faith that the Americans have placed in him. Hope he executes the job well. All the best Mr. President.
congratulation to obama
we people of India need a energetic person like him.now this is what we
call youth (Mr.obama)
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