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inaugural address stories: 11 news summaries

Obama Will Lift Stem Cell Ban 
Soon: Adviser

Reverse of Bush edict would make good on campaign promise

Feb 15, 09 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama is currently considering overturning the limits on federal funding for stem cell research, senior adviser David Axelrod said today. The move would make good on a campaign promise, and be in keeping with Obama's inaugural message of bringing American science back to prominence. Scientists say unfettered research could... More »

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OPINION

 Krauthammer: 
 Obama Doesn't 
 Need Your Adulation 

Speech a 'stunning exercise in lowering expectations'

Jan 23, 09 8:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s inaugural address was a demonstration of his most striking quality: His utter lack of neediness. The speech so abandoned his trademark soaring rhetoric, so failed to excite or inspire, that it had to be a deliberate strategy, writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. “... More »

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OPINION

 No, We Can't: 
 Meet the 
 Pessimist 
 in Chief 

Despite the rhetoric, Obama offers realism, not hope: Finkelstein

Jan 21, 09 11:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama, elected on a tide of optimism, insisted yesterday that a new generation could meet the challenges of the age. Yet he described economic crisis and a collective failure of will, with no promise of rebirth or redemption, Times of London columnist Daniel Finkelstein observes. And that may be... More »

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Barack Obama • president • optimism • inauguration • inaugural address

OPINION

 Noonan: A Solid, 
 Sober Beginning 


Jan 21, 09 10:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s first speech as president was not “a joyous audacious document, not a call to arms,” writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, “but a reasoned statement by a Young Sobersides.” That’s not a criticism: Moderate and moderated, Obama’s... More »

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OPINION

 Amid Clichés, 
 Speech Showed 
 True Insight 

New president's speech emphasized how a bright future comes from old traditions

Jan 21, 09 9:27 AM CST
(Newser) - A conservative might have expected President Obama’s inaugural address to feature soaring language masking hackneyed ideas. Funny thing, writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post: It was just the opposite. "It is simply mysterious how such tired language could sound appropriate to the ear of Obama the writer,... More »

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Race Hovers
on Edges of
Obama's Speech

President alludes to slavery, points to diversity as a strength

Jan 20, 09 3:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama made only subtle reference to his race in today’s inaugural address, but it came up again and again throughout the 18-minute address. He said that America owed its prosperity to “the makers of things,” who “endured the lash of the whip and plowed the... More »

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OPINION Roundup

 Obama's Speech a 'Home Run' 

Right/left praise speech

Jan 20, 09 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - The early reviews are in from Barack Obama’s inauguration address, and the news is positive. Here’s what the critics are saying:
  • At the National Review, Michael Knox Beran thought the speech was a “home run.” It predictably had “a few lines at which
... More »

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Obama Rebukes Bush, Assures World in Speech

Rejects policies, advocates diplomacy, warns enemies

Jan 20, 09 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama offered a clear rebuke of George Bush's policies and signaled a sharp break with his predecessor's strategy abroad in his inaugural address today. “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals,” the new president said, referring obviously to torture of detainees and... More »

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 Obama: 'We Are 
 Ready to Lead' 

Aide calls it 'sober dose of hope'

Jan 20, 09 11:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama wowed crowds in Washington today with a moving inaugural address calling the US to a new sense of shared responsibility and service, CNN reports. “We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America,” Obama said. “Today I say... More »

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Witness to a Century, 105-Year-Old Goes to Capitol

'My hope for him is my hope for the country,' she says

Jan 20, 09 10:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama marks an important milestone in an African-American struggle that lasted more than 200 years—and Ella Mae Johnson isn’t going to miss it, NPR reports. After all, she’s been around for nearly half of that struggle. The 105-year-old Cleveland resident will brave... More »

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Barack Obama • presidency • Cleveland • race relations • civil rights • inauguration • President Obama • inaugural address • WEB Du Bois

ANALYSIS

What Obama Must Do in
His Inaugural Address

As daughter Malia puts it, 'better be good'

Jan 20, 09 9:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has a reputation as a great orator, so most are expecting a soaring and eloquent inaugural address today. But Obama’s speech can’t just be pretty, writes Tom Brune in Newsday. “He has work to do.” Obama must:
  • Define the moment: Specifically,
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