President Obama described his progressive vision for the next four years in his second inaugural address on Monday, using language from the Declaration of Independence and evoking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to urge Americans to embrace new measures on climate change, gay marriage, immigration reform and other government programs.
“My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it, as long as we seize it together,” Obama told hundreds of thousands of supporters on the National Mall in a 15-minute speech. “We must act; we must act knowing that our work will be imperfect.”
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Fresh off a bruising four years in office, Obama made clear that he plans to govern from the liberal end of the American political spectrum and talked at length about equality for all, including women, minorities and gay people.
“Our journey is not complete,” Obama said, until America addresses a host of issues ranging from gender pay equity to gay rights to more stringent gun control laws. And he spoke in populist terms about an America that cannot succeed “when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”
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