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Obama's Inaugural Address: Better Than Pundits Allow

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Schweitzer

As a master orator, Obama faced expectations for his inaugural speech that were infused with the stratospheric hopes of his audience. Reporters were ...

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The Honeymo Is Over

Will Durst | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Will Durst

It might have been the shortest honeymoon this side of a drunken Britney Spears careening off of quarter poker video games in Vegas. I'm talking about Barack Obama's relationship with the press after his Inauguration.

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Obama, the Preacher, and the Devil

Jerry Weissman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Jerry Weissman

Barack Obama gestures to express himself, and he gestures quite often, but he usually keeps his movements contained. During the Inaugural, his gestures stayed within the width of his body.

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Obama's Inaugural Speech Gets a B+

Trey Ellis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Trey Ellis

Watching the speech again after the Inauguration, and watching the world watch it, realizing that there was not a corner of the globe that wasn't listening, I think it is fair to have expected more.

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Cautionary Champagne at The Center for Constitutional Rights

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Odile Weissenborn

At the Center for Constitutional rights, forty people gathered to watch the inauguration, pleased to witness Bush's departure. "Don't let the rotor blades hit you on the way out," warned CCR's database manager.

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Obama Inauguration Speech Slows Google Search Volume

Media Memo | Peter Kafka | Posted 02.21.2009 | Media

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Check out the chart below, via the "Official Google Blog," (GOOG) which shows the overall volume of queries at the search engine giant yesterday. Tha...

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Obama's Speech Through a Cuban Lens; Leaving Rhetoric Behind

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Yoani Sanchez

The serene statement delivered yesterday by Barack Obama, with his manner of carefully constructed arguments and invocations to harmony, condemned all the rhetoric to be left in the 20th century.

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Memories, Parallels of JFK's and BHO's Inauguration

Lea Lane | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Lea Lane

Forty-eight years before Barack Obama's inauguration, I was a teenager, sitting in front of a 12-inch Motorola console, watching 43 year-old John F. Kennedy of inaugurated as our 35th President.

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What We Will Remember from Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Aaron Zelinsky

Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.

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Bush Speech Writer: Obama's Address Was "Cliched"

Columbia Journalism Review | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Michael Gerson, who authored President George W. Bush's first and second inaugural addresses, offered on Fox News this critique of President Obama's s...

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The Obama Inaugural Drinking Game

Anne Hill | Posted 02.19.2009 | Style

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Anne Hill

I have come up with a simple, celebratory drinking game to help ease the pain of what may very well be a day that will live in infamy: the day that keeps haunting us, the day we lowered the bar on change.

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A Peek At Obama's Inaugural Plan

Yahoo! News | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Just hours after admitting he was intimidated by Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, Barack Obama went to stare it down. He had set the weeke...

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Five Million Attend the Inauguration, Five Billion Watch on TV

David Latt | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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David Latt

At a time of such violence and uncertainty, it will be good to relish a moment of clarity as we look forward to a future that moves the world away from the turmoil of the past eight years.

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