Dixie - In Memoriam
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This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it....
You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right....
The American dream endures. We must once again have full faith in our country—and in one another. I believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before....
Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence. And I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation....
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I want you to read these lines and see if you can picture Obama saying them. To me, it sounds amazingly like an Obama stump speech. Full of Hopes and Dreams and the promise of Change and Togetherness. It is exactly the same message being used by Obama to garner your vote.
It is from the 1977 Inaugural Speech of Jimmy Carter. Same baseless platitudes and wishful thinking. Same promises of hope and change. It just goes to show, nothing much has changed in the Democratic party since Carter.
You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right....
The American dream endures. We must once again have full faith in our country—and in one another. I believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before....
Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence. And I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation....
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I want you to read these lines and see if you can picture Obama saying them. To me, it sounds amazingly like an Obama stump speech. Full of Hopes and Dreams and the promise of Change and Togetherness. It is exactly the same message being used by Obama to garner your vote.
It is from the 1977 Inaugural Speech of Jimmy Carter. Same baseless platitudes and wishful thinking. Same promises of hope and change. It just goes to show, nothing much has changed in the Democratic party since Carter.
