"It has been a long time in this country since the ideals of sacrifice, honor, courage, and integrity were both admired and aspired to by the common man."

Here's the real inaugural address for the dawning era.  Randy found it.  Everyone should read it.

"We are the change we've been waiting for" is all well and good.  But it must come hand in hand with its antidote, courtesy of Pogo:  "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

Comments

[RW Rogers]

It seems to me that The Times of London caught the gist of the message: "A new era of responsibility"

America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

[RW Rogers]

Oops. The quote below the link was from Obama's inaugural address today.

[Janet]

Actually, I think he covered that kind of thing with "our collective refusal to make hard decisions". That made me sit up and take notice. It's rare you hear a politician refuse to play facile blame games and call everybody to account.

If Obama can rise only to one-quarter of his rhetoric, he'll be a good president.

It will be very interesting to look back at these posts in four years. Keep blogging.