The Best Commentary That I Have Read On President Obama -- WNU Editor

US President Barack Obama speaks during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to swear in his staff in Washington, DC. Obama Wednesday dived into the treacherous diplomacy of the Middle East, promised a new era of ethical politics and froze the salaries of top staff in a frenetic first day in office. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Judge Obama on Performance Alone -- Wall Street Journal

With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States. On one level, it was a simple matter of political process -- the symbolic transfer of power. Yet words alone cannot convey its meaning.

The calloused hands of slaves, the voices of abolitionists, the hearts of generations who trusted in the naïve promise that any child can become president, will find some reward in a moment that was hard to imagine last year, much less 50 years ago. Our history, so marred by the sin of slavery, has come to the day when a man that an old segregationist would have described as "tea-colored" -- the child of a white woman and an African immigrant, who identifies as a member of the long oppressed and despised black minority -- was chosen by a mostly white nation as the personification of America's best sense of self as a nation of power and virtue.

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