PRESIDENT OBAMA's SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS : 'RESOLVE' AND "HOPE FOR AMERICA's FUTURE".............

The second term Inaugural Address President Barack Obama delivered yesterday was unlike most second Inauguration speeches, in that it was a bold and resolute embrace of the philosophy and vision for inclusiveness of all, in the American democracy.   It was essentially a reclaiming of the liberal-progressive tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as he delivered it from the Inaugural Stand on which sat among the 1,600 guests and dignitaries, were his two immediate Democratic Party predecessors, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who put a slightly different spin on that legacy during there own Administrations.  Having focused on bipartisanship and working in tandem with Republicans and Democrats alike, only to be rebuffed and all but dismissed by Congressional Republicans from day one, four years ago, in his first Inaugural Address; his 2013 Address saw him resolved to lay out a message that is steeped in his belief that have been validated by winning re-election having campaigned on the themes and issues he seeks as President to further, challenging Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, to join him in achieving - but willing to fight for his principles and positions, if they do not.  Many commentators and presidential historians compare this second Inaugural to Franklin Roosevelt's second Inaugural Address in 1937, and Ronald Reagan's first one in 1981.  Whether there is political will to enact and further the principle of inclusion as represented by, "Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall", as Barack Obama stated it in the extension and realization of the fullness of civil rights and social justice for Women, Blacks / Latinos, and Gays, as well as Caucasians, Asians, and all American citizens, among "a shrinking few and the growing many", in the President's Inaugural words, will play forward during the next two to four years as Obama's organizing for action takes on and contests with the status quo power brokers who put politics before governing for the equality and common good of all Americans, the President refers to as, "We The People".............Fr.  Troy