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INAUGURAL DOUBLE

Fellow Americans!

As I stand on this august stage in the shadow of not just the Capitol but also of momentous history, each trice of its flow charged with expectation, expectation of our upliftment, yes our nation's redemption, you have, by your well begun is half done fares, already set the ball rolling in the right direction.

Change is on and your hands mould it even as I am the one privileged to handle the figures and shapes emerging from your great democracy's potter wheel, a symbol of washing off of our national blemish's last vestige, well taken not only here at home but all over the world.

What an augury as America transitions into 21st
century heats for civilization's next laurels!

My inaugural speech is your patience's sweet fruit, the first bite at it as it were after long years of waiting and bearing with adverse circumstance which saw our nation's honor suffer dents as it took to waging a war it shouldn't have in the first place, led by a President who became a liability for our nation than any credit.

We believe in the might of God, therefore must give in to the force of powers that lie beyond our ken. Thus, as I step on to time's new threshold leading you into future which dash shall again begin to accord with our founding fathers' exalted vision, let me right away get to enumeration of tasks that stare us in the face.

Just the presaging word though. As I sat musing over shaping this defining moment, I made the effort to pour over American history, European history and the history of ancient worlds.

The point is to draw on cumulative wisdom of all humanity in order to see how best American cause can be served in new world dispensation where America alone can not effectively give new age the desired shape.

Our human world is uniquely diverse, yet singularly unitary in that all humans are created equal, the principle we Americans take pride in reiterating time and again with legitimate right having reinvented it as old empires gave way.

So too are virtues like democracy, freedom, liberty, equality, fraternity, rule of law and citizen access to justice universal values practised in all societies in a measure commensurate with their culture and civilization, a nation's genius you see. That is the backdrop to my exposition of American world view, my spring of thought and action.

So!

First and foremost I shall attend to American security.

Lincoln, the Obama mascot, had two inaugurals, one as the nation got going with Civil War, the second as Civil

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