President
Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, and his daughters Sasha (L) and Malia
wave after Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States
on the West Front of the Capitol as his wife Michelle looks on January
20, 2009 in Washington. Obama becomes the first African-American to be
elected to the office of President in the history of the United States.
(view BBC video image slideshow - click photo) Caption Credit: UPI -
Image Credit: UPI Photo/Mark Wilson/Pool
GLObama Historyia Turns To Buzz Kill
The
media coverage of the inauguration of our first elected
African-American man as President of the United States, as they
presented it, was all about the GLOW … did you feel it?
It
brink-ed upon a form of hysteria about the history - Historyia - that
was being made with the tradition of a smooth transition of power we
have come to assume here in the United States.
Days before this
day it was roundly touted the attendance would be estimated in millions
and swell upwards to as much as six million people. Yesterday, news
readers toned it down a bit by stating a figure of over a million to as
much as four million … then later, that the attendance could be as much
as two million. This morning, soon after President Barack Obama gave
his inauguration speech the report stated the he gave his speech in
front of “Hundreds Of Thousands” of well-wishers lining the mall in
Washington DC.
Reality has a way of sneaking up on media hype and BUZZ … and killing it.
Take
for example his inauguration speech – We, here at Carter's Second Term,
wish we had a line by line veto on some of what he said … and were able
to curtail the poem … and update the invocation prayer delivered by 87
year old Rev. Lowery - he didn’t have to continue to call out and
marginalize the majority of voters (the white race) that helped Barack
Obama arrive to take the oath of office. After all, wasn’t a black man
just sworn in as the leader of the most powerful and free nation on
Earth?
Barack
Obama delivers Inaugural Day speech to hundreds of thousands massed on
the mall in Washington D.C. (Speech video - click photo). Image Credit:
BBC
President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech – The Good (not vetoed)
My
fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us,
grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices
borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our
nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown
throughout this transition.
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In
reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness
is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of
short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the
faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only
the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk takers,
the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men
and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long,
rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
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We
remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are
no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less
inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last
week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished.
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The
question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too
small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a
decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.
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And
those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account —
to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of
day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people
and their government.
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We
will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its
defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing
terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is
stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will
defeat you.
For we know
that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a
nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.
We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of
this Earth.
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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.
President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech – The Buzz Kill (vetoed)
That
we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at
war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy
is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the
part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and
prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed;
businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail
too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use
energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These
are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less
measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our
land — a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that
the next generation must lower its sights.
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The
state of the economy calls for [Governmental] action, bold and swift,
and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new
foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the
electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us
together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield
technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and
run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and
universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And
all this we will do.
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To
the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make
your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved
bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy
relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to
suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources
without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change
with it.
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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.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
Reference Here>>
Hold on to your wallets for it is the taxpayer that will foot the bill and pay the price of this new era of responsibility.
The
ultimate buzz kill came from Reverend Lowery when he decided to rise up
an old sixties tome that had little relevance to the importance of the
day and an insult to most of the people who brought this day about.
After
Obama's inspirational speech, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights
icon and a pastor known to speak his mind to power, opened his
benediction with the first words of the Negro National Anthem, Lift
Every Voice and Sing (YouTube video - click photo). Image Credit: Ron
Edmonds/AP
Text excerpted from the benediction delivered by Rev. Joseph Lowery –
Lord,
in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the
joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day:
when black will not be asked to get in back,
… when brown can stick around,
... when yellow will be mellow,
... when the red man can get ahead, man;
and when white will embrace what is right.
Reference Here>>
Today,
a black man was just asked to “get in back” … of a one-of-a-kind,
custom built, attack proof Presidential Cadillac limousine by a
majority of voters that happened to be white and driven to live with
his family for at least the next four years … in the residence of the
First Family, The White House.
All hail to President Barack
Obama. He is our President and may he be blessed with the special
wisdom to lead ALL of the people of this special and great nation of
ours.
And finally, the stock markets closed with a major
downturn in its vote of confidence for the new and decidedly lopsided
tax and spend power structure that came to pass this Inauguration Day.
The
blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average yesterday fell 4 percent, a dive
of 332.13 points to 7,949.09, the biggest Inauguration Day drop in the
Dow's 112-year history.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 dropped 5.28 percent, closing at 805.22 Tuesday.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged 5.78 percent, or 88.47 points, to close at 1,440.86.
This is a grand beginning to a Carter’s Second Term … let the ramped up government meddling begin and kiss good-bye free market
Capitalism as a social system based on individual rights.
Inflation and recession will live together again, as it did when Jimmy
Carter was President, during the term of this 44th presidency.