Barack Hussein Obama -- First Inaugural Address

I hadn't heard an entire Obama speech -- until today.

I confess: electrifying!

I think I understand a little better "Obamamania."

May God bless our new President and our country.



Peggy Noonan has it right:

And this has grown old, and maybe it's the last time to say it, history moving so fast, but there's something we all know so well that we are perhaps forgetting to see it in the forefront. But a long-oppressed people have raised up a president. It is moving and beautiful and speaks to the unending magic and sense of justice of our country. The other day the journalist John O'Sullivan noted that 150 years after slavery, a black man stands in the place of Lincoln in the inaugural stands, and this country has proved again that anything is possible, that if we can do this we can do anything. That is a good thing to remember at a difficult time.

UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer disagrees with my reaction to the speech. Mark Steyn calls the speech "brilliantly dull." E.J. Dionne has a different take.