Today, January 20th, Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Today I am proud to call myself an American and even prouder to say that WE, the American People finally came together for the greater good and elected someone we are proud and honored to call our President.
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."
For the full transcript of his Inaugural Address, go here: http://www.pic2009.org/blog/entry/president_obamas_inaugural_address/
And in honor of our 44th President, here's a lil playlist i've created:
As JFK said back in 1961, in his Inaugural Address: "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you- ask whta you can do for your country." It's time for change. Lets make it happen.
Its been a pretty awesome week:
