[Two thoughts on today’s Inaugural celebrations…] | |
This not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster not the forces of party, but the forces of Humanity… I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! | |
— Woodrow Wilson | |
From his 1st Inaugural Address | |
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | |
— Sydney J. Harris | |
[To the former: I stand at your side, Mr. President. To the latter: ask me again in Nov. 2014 and then again about a year after that… Until then, God Bless you, Mr. President and God Bless the United States of America! — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | End The Filibuster |
2021 | Be Creative, Question Assumptions |
By No Means | |
2020 | I’ll Eat To That (Gemütlichkeit) |
To The Front | |
2019 | #ContinueToResist |
Except Willful Ignorance And Prideful Stupidity | |
2018 | More Executive Time For #DumbDonald |
2017 | Watched The Inauguration |
Two Geniuses | |
2016 | Come Dance And Laugh With Me |
2015 | Looks Good To Me |
2014 | Desire For The Sea |
2013 | The Fierce Urgency Of NOW |
Happy Inauguration Day! | |
2012 | One Path |
Sorrow And Joy | |
The Seven Year View | |
2011 | Emergent Practicality |
Happy Inauguration Day!
January 21, 2013 by kmabarrett
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