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Historic Inauguration
Does anyone else think it is ironic to have this particular presidential inauguration the day after Martin Luther King Day? While Obama has been called a seeker of consensus, I think Dr. King might have had some valuable advice for the new president. It was Dr. King who said:
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
I also hope that Obama will seek guidance in previous inauguration speeches, like those of Abraham Lincoln. But he should focus on Lincoln's SECOND inaugural speech, when the country was trying to recover from war and division. Like Lincoln, Obama needs to take office,
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
I also hope that Obama will seek guidance in previous inauguration speeches, like those of Abraham Lincoln. But he should focus on Lincoln's SECOND inaugural speech, when the country was trying to recover from war and division. Like Lincoln, Obama needs to take office,
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
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