You have no idea how long I have waited to use that header.<\/p>\n
President Obama (it’s a bit surreal to write that) gave a good speech, although probably not a great one. It contained few, if any, lines that will echo into the future. And that’s okay. Obama has already proven his skill as an orator and the unspoken symbolism of the day was more powerful than anything he could have said. But the speech’s content left no doubt that a new governing philosophy is in ascendancy. I can’t imagine Bush bothering to recognize nonbelievers in any public address. This passage leaves little doubt that Obama has fundamental differences with the previous administration: <\/p>\n
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.<\/b> Our But this nonbeliever thought the most graceful moments of the ceremony came during Reverend Joseph Lowery’s benediction. It struck an optimistic chord while also being somewhat melancholy, as if he was trying to make us appreciate the blood price of so many lives lost in the long struggle culminating in this moment. And it was corny, but in a sweet way that you only find in the words of charming old men who have witnessed much. <\/p>\n Bush is really gone, right? He doesn’t have some super-secret skeleton key that will let him sneak back into the Oval Office tonight and smear Vaseline on all the drawer handles? Because I wouldn’t put it past the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You have no idea how long I have waited to use that header. President Obama (it’s a bit surreal to write that) gave a good speech, although probably not a great one. It contained few, if any, lines that will echo into the future. And that’s okay. Obama has already proven his skill as an […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFounding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a
\ncharter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter
\nexpanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the
\nworld, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.<\/strong> <\/p>\n