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[KneesInTheBreeze]

Obama’s second inaugural address was a panegyric of liberalism, calling for greater investment in mass transit and green energy and a defense of his enlarged welfare state. It was a smorgasbord of disagreeable eloquence.

President Obama used his status as the nation’s first African-American president and the backdrop of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to link the struggles of the suffragettes and the indignities and the brutalities suffered by black civil rights leaders with the political/legislative/judicial fight for gay marriage. Had a white liberal politician, regardless of office, attempted to do the same, catcalls would have rained down from elder black clergymen for the misappropriation of their sacrifices. However, the main beneficiary of their toil gets a pass that he is not reluctant to use.

While the 1969 Stonewall riots stemming from a police raid on a New York gay bar made his inaugural address, the $16,000,000,000,000 national debt did not, an indication of the president’s disordered priorities, his refusal to own up to his failures, as he did build several trillion of that, and the likely stubbornness congressional leaders should expect from the White House going into deficit reduction negotiations.  If anything the president’s inaugural address is a sign that he’s looking move the debt clock digits higher.

Perhaps the most curious remark in the address was when the president said, “Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote.” Was he making the case for expanded early voting or is he laying the groundwork for something far more grandiose, such as internet voting.  Stay tuned to find out where exactly Obama was going with that line.

It was a speech better suited for a party convention than for an inaugural address, though delivering such a speech at the former might have precluded the latter.

Obama has demonstrated that he will govern as an unapologetic liberal without fear of political consequences.

[smokeyone]

Was it off a teleprompter? because that would be awesome, fake speech, music, National Anthem, black guy. hey I am begining to think I dreamed it.

[CrimsoNation713]

He also said he wanted "passion and dedication".

Get back with us in four years.

[zartan]

I love it. Teabaggers should be ready to jump off a bridge

[CrimsoNation713]

Sorry Z, it ain't just the teabaggers.

[KneesInTheBreeze]

Not everyone was watching Obama...