Barack Obama Inauguration Speech (video)
Barack Obama Inauguration Speech (video) - The investiture ceremony takes place on Capitol Hill. Two million people flock to the two kilometers from the mall that connect the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial (where he is seated on a chair) to the obelisk, the Washington Monument. It is a small -5 ° C.
At the podium, behind Obama, a handful of politicians. Senators and governors, former Presidents Bush father and son, Clinton and Carter. There are also Steven Spielberg, John Cusack, Colin Powell and the pilot of the Airbus, “a true American hero.”
Dick Cheney is in a wheelchair. Result of a blocking back in his new home.
11 30. A pastor is prayer.
Aretha Franklin sings a song that looks like the “God save the Queen.”
11:40 am. Joe Biden took the oath on a huge red bible held by his wife.
A quartet (piano, violin cello, clarinet and piano) plays a melody by John Williams.
It is noon. According to the U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama is president of the United States. He took the oath on the Bible Lincoln, output for the occasion of the Library of Congress. Twenty-one cannon shots ring out.
Summary of Obama’s inaugural speech: we are a great nation, I am humbly in the footsteps of great ancestors, men are free and equal, times are tough, there’s job, but America, if it unites all its forces, which are many, will get there. America is not afraid of nations where people want to be free.
We do not excuse us from our way of life to those who fight us. We’ll fight. The tools are new, but the honesty and work, patriotism, those values are old. This is the price of our citizenship.
According to analysts of CNN, “It was a very strong, longer than those of its predecessors, not a speech of transition, but transformation.”
Malia (daughter of the great Obama) took a photo with her father, Michelle Obama has a yellow package should be cast by evil ink in newspapers fashion.
Elizabeth Alexander, a poet, then reads a text “praise song” about love, words. “Everything can be done, any sentence can be started.”
Reverend is a blessing for the new President is well advised. Excerpt. “Help us make the choice of love rather than hate, integration rather than exclusion.” It makes little puzzles on different skin colors that relax the atmosphere of solemn.
Everyone sings the American national anthem with the choirs of the Navy.
The first black U.S. president with the former president’s helicopter, behind the Capitol, to say goodbye. It returns to Texas with his wife.
Meanwhile, people slipping on the frozen pond that separates the mall in two.
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