it's a great day.
Today is a great day in American history.
What a wonderful inaugural address. Among so many other things ... the respect for science! ... the inclusion of the non-religious! ... I'm still a bit stunned. And blissful.
For those who missed Bishop Gene Robinson's moving opening prayer, here it is. (Link to transcript - there is also a link there to the Youtube video.)
The official White House blog is available as a feed on LJ: whitehouseblog .
President Barack Obama and the First Family
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."
Our President has a very difficult task, a very hard road, ahead of him; but for once in my lifetime I have real hope the man elected to the position is worthy of it.
What a wonderful inaugural address. Among so many other things ... the respect for science! ... the inclusion of the non-religious! ... I'm still a bit stunned. And blissful.
For those who missed Bishop Gene Robinson's moving opening prayer, here it is. (Link to transcript - there is also a link there to the Youtube video.)
The official White House blog is available as a feed on LJ: whitehouseblog .
President Barack Obama and the First Family
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."
Our President has a very difficult task, a very hard road, ahead of him; but for once in my lifetime I have real hope the man elected to the position is worthy of it.