by RAY FLEMING
PRESIDENT Obama's inaugural speech yesterday was forceful and to the point.
If it lacked some of the memorable phrases that have come down in history from earlier speeches made on this day it nonetheless contained a great deal of substance and even a surprising a number of direct criticisms of the status quo. His comment that it would be necessary to confront our collective failure to make hard choices would not have been appreciated by former President Bush who has made a point in his farewell statements of boasting about the hard choices that he has made. Mr Obama's insistence that America must reject the false choice between our safety and our ideals was another direct hit on the Bush regime and its willingness to make that false choice, for instance at Guantanamo Bay.
OBAMA BEGINS WORK
24/01/2013 00:00
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