Tuesday, January 20, 2009
President Obama's Inaugural Address and New Jersey history - Perfect Together
If I am going to write much about President Obama's inaugural address, I want to wait to read it and think about it, but there is one thing I can't resist saying.  I thought the ending where he went back to the darkest days of the revolution and the battle of Trenton was inspired.  My guess is that it is to some degree a Lincolnesque touch.  Lincoln used the Gettysburg address to tie the Civil War into the Declaration of Independence.  In the same way our new president tied our current problems to a time when the American spirit triumphed in the face of far greater odds.  Even if that opinion is not correct, I just want to remind all of us where that happened - not in Massachusetts or Virginia, but here in our state - our New Jersey!!!
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I thought that it was a New Jersey moment that Obama was talking about. Thanks for confirming that! I actually would be interested in a posting as to the inaugural speech. I will check back.
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