President Obama's Inauguration Speech [1/20/09] [Part I]
[I must have listened at least 3 times to this speech that it has got me into a lot of pondering on what will happen next; I'm reproducing it here for the sake of posterity. The speaker remains a powerful and emblematic symbol of what's wonderful, fantastic about changes, the variety that most of us would prefer to have, given tendencies of humans to think and work along the safe coasts of habits. The speaker has so far hurdled a way of thinking that most persons who performed the same role as that of him in his current position have failed to seize as the next critical step to more progressive directions of human development (at least to set as good examples for others to emulate and improve on). But we are always reminded that there are changes that are always difficult to endure. Set against the context of change as an inevitable part of life cycles, what the speaker emphasizes in this speech becomes more fascinating. It does not say much about what happened in the very ...