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John F Kennedy Inaugural

Reflections on "The Poem"

Ben Rosen | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living

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Ben Rosen

Let's compare Elizabeth Alexander's poem with one written for an earlier president. I dug up the 77-line poem, "Dedication", that Robert Frost wrote for JFK's 1961 inauguration.

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Not That Kind of Inaugural Speech

Rick Horowitz | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Rick Horowitz

Barack Obama knows how to get wild, rapturous feedback from crowds. He knows how to set it up -- how to kick up the rhetoric a notch, and the volume a notch -- and how to get a big response.

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