Yuval Levin on the Inauguration
Levin comments at The Corner:
Tomorrow, no doubt, Obama will sign some papers putting the United States firmly behind international abortion efforts again, and will begin the work of enacting a massively wasteful spending bill, and our politics will begin again to take up the great arguments that have long given it shape: about the proper relationship of the state and the citizen, about America’s place in the world, about the regard and protection owed to every human life, about how we might best reconcile economic prosperity and cultural vitality, national security and moral authority, freedom, and virtue. These are divisive questions of enormous consequence, and they are neither petty nor childish. They are the substance of the political life of a healthy and thriving democracy, and Barack Obama, whether he likes it or not, has just thrown himself into the middle of them all. God bless America.
Read the whole thing.
ADDED: Rich Lowry comments on Obama's speech here -- and he identifies what I consider to be the best few lines of an otherwise mediocre speech.
Tomorrow, no doubt, Obama will sign some papers putting the United States firmly behind international abortion efforts again, and will begin the work of enacting a massively wasteful spending bill, and our politics will begin again to take up the great arguments that have long given it shape: about the proper relationship of the state and the citizen, about America’s place in the world, about the regard and protection owed to every human life, about how we might best reconcile economic prosperity and cultural vitality, national security and moral authority, freedom, and virtue. These are divisive questions of enormous consequence, and they are neither petty nor childish. They are the substance of the political life of a healthy and thriving democracy, and Barack Obama, whether he likes it or not, has just thrown himself into the middle of them all. God bless America.
Read the whole thing.
ADDED: Rich Lowry comments on Obama's speech here -- and he identifies what I consider to be the best few lines of an otherwise mediocre speech.
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The only speech worth commenting on was Rev. Lowery's Inauguration Benediction. On a historic day for this country, when a Nation of 75% white people and a history of slavery and Jim Crow, elected a half-black man to be their President, Rev. Lowery states, "Lord... we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back." It's disheartening to know that this man was allowed to put forth his racist world view, one that we know to be false because of the efforts we've made to right our wrongs.
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