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I have watched with bemused amusement a number of shallow posts on Goanet on
the inauguration of the new American president, apparently missing the
significance of yet another seamless transfer of awesome power from one
American administration to another, unique for its simple civility, regardless
of political affiliation.
One Goanetter was apparently so impressed with the inaugural Obama speech that
a link to the text was cut and pasted here. Another apparently fell asleep
while watching, failing to be duly impressed, hoping for who knows what to be
SAID. A speech? Mere words, by a career politician, whose own pastor once
famously said would say anything to get elected? Talk about being impressed by
form over substance.
Others took the opportunity to display their small-mindedness by repeating the
same tired old canards and "Bushisms", most of these made up by Bush's
political adversaries, while seeming oblivious to Bush's towering achievements,
which included turning around a declining economy in 2001, containing the
economic fallout from 9/11, providing the leadership for seven years of
uninterrupted economic growth with low inflatipon, while also achieving two
epic political liberations and massive assistance to a number of poor and
oppressed countries, including an unprecedented nuclear agreement to help India
enhance its power generating capabilities.
By contrast, the following are links to two thoughtful columns by two premier
African-American journalists which offer some serious food for thought for the
days ahead among all the verbal chaff:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123249791178500439.html?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/01/21/political_speeches
