Billmon at Daily Kos: Obama at the Plate

Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 09:51:41 PM PST

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

Barack Obama
Inaugural Address
January 20, 2009

In the end, maybe the speech didn't matter that much. I think he could have read the first 50 names out of the D.C. phone directory and gotten as much applause and as many approving nods from the babbling heads. Once again, although probably for the last time, who he is spoke louder than what he said.

But, to the extent the words today did matter, they weren't the ones I had expected to hear, which I thought was actually an encouraging sign -- although hardly a conclusive one.