With his wife Michelle having already stolen the weekend with her new bangs, and his daughters Malia and Sasha a joyful vision in magenta and purple, the thin man had a job on his hands to keep up his end of the family bargain. Sensibly, he decided to stick with a conservatively cut dark suit and let his words speak for him, which they did eloquently. Unlike most inaugural speeches, Obama’s first one included, this one exceeded expectations. Cleverly constructed, pointed, and surprisingly political, it marked the emergence of a more confident, more combative Obama—a President who knows he is personally popular and who is increasingly willing to put that popularity on the line.
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