Posts Tagged ‘#inaug09’

Frank Rich: No Time for Poetry - NYT 012509:
PRESIDENT Obama did not offer his patented poetry in his Inaugural Address. He did not add to his cache of quotations in Bartlett’s. He did not recreate J.F.K.’s inaugural, or Lincoln’s second, or F.D.R.’s first. The great orator was mainly at his best when taking shots at [...]

Paul Krugman wastes no time staking out a critical position on Obama’s economic recovery plan, based on what he heard and didn’t hear in the inaugural address. His gloss on the John Maynard Keynes subtext is the first I’ve heard.
Paul Krugman: Stuck in the Muddle - NYT 012309:
Thus, in his speech Mr. Obama attributed the [...]

Maureen Dowd: Exit the Boy King - NYT 012109.
Bush’s Departure Rehearses the Rapture:
As W. ceased to be president, he flew off over the Capitol and across the Mall en route to Andrews Air Force Base, and then back to Texas.
I’ve seen many presidents come and go, but I’ve never watched a tableau like the one [...]

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address: Part 1 | Part 2
On March 4, 1933, FDR delivered one of the most quoted affirmations in the history of American political rhetoric:
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. [...]

President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and their families took in the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. [Photo by Charles Dharapak/Associated Press/NYT[]
Lincoln Memorial Concert Kicks Off Festivities - NYT 011809:
WASHINGTON — A singing, dancing, cheering sea of people poured onto the National Mall on Sunday afternoon to kick off three days [...]