President calls for new beginning in historic speech

President Barack Hussein Obama saluted our armed forces Monday night following his inauguration earlier in the day and made clear he was ready for the challenge to improve America’s lifestyles and help make the government accountable to the people.

This is the first time a president and vice president (Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr) acknowledged our military in separate speeches since before John F. Kennedy and perhaps more during the inauguration of Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower in 1953.

The speech, which observers viewed as historic and offering hope to Americans of all incomes, gave renewed confidence in an administration going forward despite Republican opposition and obstructionists in general.

The president called for his second term to be “a new decade, a new belief in freedom for one and all.”

He took a page from Martin Luther King, Jr.: it is the power of the people that will make change possible going forward. He called “for a new spirit of unity to solve the nation’s challenges, from economic disparity to gay rights to climate change, urging a recommitment to the country’s founding principles of equality.

“Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.”

The 44th president  appealed for cooperation even as he made clear that he was prepared to fight for a liberal agenda, saying that a new brand of bipartisanship is needed.

Technically the president was sworn in Sunday (Jan. 20), with the public celebration on Monday before an estimated 800,000 people in Washington, D.C.,  and a global television and radio audience.

Monday was Dr. King’s birthday, and he used the power of prayer, march and common goals to make change that made us proud prior to his death.

In Dr. King’s memory, Pres. Obama noted America has come through a recession, a.k.a. a depression, and noted relief and good times are coming back to us who seek a better America.

May we all join the march to a new beginning of prosperity and goodwill.

Posted by George C. Jordan III on January 24, 2013. Filed under Editorials,Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry