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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTHIS is one of the all-time-greatest inaugural addresses.
Stunning.
Perfect tone, and perfect words.
musette_sf
(10,206 posts)MissB
(15,812 posts)highplainsdem
(49,070 posts)CottonBear
(21,597 posts)That was some weird shit.
Edit: Clinton
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Anyway, good for him.
lindysalsagal
(20,782 posts)Bravo.
musette_sf
(10,206 posts)during the truth part
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)We are a world away... This is wonderful!
underpants
(182,970 posts)tinrobot
(10,927 posts)Lord knows we need it.
renate
(13,776 posts)I feel so much more... settled. I dont have to worry about what fresh hell Trump will plunge us into next. The government is for the people once again.
crickets
(25,988 posts)highplainsdem
(49,070 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)highplainsdem
(49,070 posts)bellmartin
(218 posts)Jon Meacham?
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Tanuki
(14,926 posts)..."Biden has been steadily crafting the speech -- adding a thought here, inserting a line there -- since the day after he delivered a victory address in Wilmington, Delaware, aides say. But in those passing 72 days, Biden's burden has grown even heavier, with President Donald Trump's relentless falsehoods complicating the already-challenging task of unifying a divided nation.
Mike Donilon, a longtime adviser to Biden who will join him in the West Wing, is overseeing the speechwriting process along with Vinay Reddy, Biden's chief speechwriter. Jon Meacham, the historian and presidential biographer, is also helping shape the inaugural address, which will be delivered as the opening mark of perhaps the most challenging presidency since Franklin Roosevelt.
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Biden aides have been reluctant to preview specifics of Biden's inaugural address. Ron Klain, his incoming chief of staff, told The Washington Post in a video interview last week that Biden "takes time every few days to sit down and think about it and write some thoughts and rewrite some thoughts."
highplainsdem
(49,070 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)And he was clear about his goals.
gademocrat7
(10,679 posts)The restoration of integrity and compassion has begun.
aggiesal
(8,940 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Chris Wallace said (on TV) that it was the best inaugural address he'd ever heard.
So at least one Foxer was watching it.
Traildogbob
(8,860 posts)Winning the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Olympics, the NCAA championship, all of em, the Stanley Cup, Womens and Mens World Cup, the city Bowling League, evening Bingo at the Senior Center, WW1, WW2, Dart Championship at the local pub, an augment with your older brother. It just felt damn good.
After 4 years of our flag hijacked by Trump cult flown with his shit rag, the confederate flag, the Dont Tread flag, even the Swastika, I finally felt proud of that flag again.
Felt like our soldiers planting it firming on that hill again.
Never let it fly with that treason Trump flag again.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Equivalent to my Raptors winning the NBA Championship in 2019!
Traildogbob
(8,860 posts)Damn it. Good luck to your team,
Harker
(14,067 posts)He did a very good job of laying out the pressing challenges and stating that unity is the way to address them.
I'll do my part as best as I can.
Let's see if there are some republican'ts who can muster up the courage to be Republicans.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)then went back to powerful.
Great, great speech.
highplainsdem
(49,070 posts)Escurumbele
(3,407 posts)It was a fantastic speech, and he addressed everyone. Mitch McConnel knew Biden was talking to him, the other republicans knew it too, the World heard him loud and clear, and I find that the anxiety we have been living with for that last four years will go away very soon.
Just the fact that we don't have to read or listen about what the buffoon said or tweeted will release a lot of that anxiety.