Inauguration Day
Jan. 20th, 2009 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met {...} we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals {...} And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity..."
Let us hope -- and work -- for this to be true.