Alright, because of school, I missed the Inaugural Speech. After searching online a bit, I read quite a bit of it or at least enough to get the gist of it. Props to Obama and his speech-maker, Jon Favreau. The dude must be a genius to have written some of the most memorable speeches in history. Back to the Inaugural Speech. Here's one sentence that will pretty much summarize the speech in a nutshell.
"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." - Barack Obama, Inaugural Speech, Inauguration Day, Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
We've fallen pretty far from the tree with our economy going down the drain and all. I mean, this era is almost on par with the Great Depression and that means something. I'm not completely confident, being the pessimist I am, in Obama's plan to pull us out of the hole, but I'm putting a lot of faith into it. Sure it's not really important to me right now since I'm only fifteen, but it will matter within a few years when I actually become an adult and it will start to matter. Why not start early? I think more teens should get involved in society if you know what I mean. They should start caring more about the government and so forth. Especially the ones that are old enough to make votes. Every vote counts, boys and girls, so why not make the most of it? Anyways, it's just my opinion, or you can view it as the opinion of a teenager who is only fifteen years old. Whatever floats your boat.
Oh and the booing to Bush was kind of uncalled for. I mean, sure he was the worst president, but it doesn't give people the right to criticize him. I mean, if you were the president, then could you do any better? Could you have prevented the economy from being crap? It's not entirely his fault to. I mean, it's those stupid bankers who decided to loan large amounts of money to people they knew couldn't pay them back. Retards is what they are. Sorry if I offended you, but it's the truth. Anyways, just wanted to put that out there. Don't boo someone unless you know that you could do a betterjob than they can. Oh, and analysts are saying that the economy started to drop around the era when Clinton was president. Just something I recently stumbled upon. Take it as some food for thought.
Feel free to criticize me or agree with me. I'd like you to voice your opinions seeing as I'd like to hear them.
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A quote from the man himself:
"...we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake." - Barack Obama.
"My Country Tis of Thee" - Arethra Franklin