Raw, First Observations

A presidential inauguration is a fundamentally hypocritical expression of both achievable goals and unattainable dreams. President Obama's speech was no different. An inauguration is the meeting of campaign promises and political action, and rarely do the two lead seamlessly into one another. Obama found an interesting juxtaposition of grandiose musings on the state of our state as a whole, and specific indicators of what political actions would be taken in the coming months and years of his term.