Congratulations, President Obama

I spent some time yesterday streaming the inauguration of our 44th President--Barak Obama. Some thoughts on the day:

I hope the world stops obsessing about what Michelle wears. I thought she looked fine and I would have enjoyed her outfit more if I didn't have to hear about it constantly. Yes, I am not a fashionista.

I enjoyed President Obama's inauguration speech. "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America." Well, mostly. We do need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and work, but remake America? I think we've taken some bad turns (greed, entitlement, greed), but reinvention can go many ways.

My favorite quote:

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

Best Wish President Obama.