President Obamas Inaugural Address

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President Obamas Inaugural Address

• Analysis by John McWhorter
• Columbia University

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NPR RADIO, JANUARY 21, 2009
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ONLY THE RHYTHM AND CADENCE?

• One theme in President Obamas Inaugural
  Address seemed to find an echo in a poem by Paul
  Lawrence Dunbar. See if you agree.

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Inaugural Address

• Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or
  settling for less. It has not been the path for
  the faint-hearted for those who prefer leisure
  over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches
  and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers,
  the doers, the makers of things some celebrated
  but more often men and women obscure in their
  labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged
  path towards prosperity and freedom.

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NOT THEY WHO SOAR

• Poem read by Herbert Martin
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PERHAPS CHANGE HAS COME AT LAST TO WASHINGTON AND
THE NATION

• LING 280
• Winter 2009