The Inauguration of President Barack H. Obama

[Don Corleone]

I've never been prouder to be an American than I am right now. He's not the leader I chose, but he is my leader none the less, and I am honored to have him as my president. I wish him the best of luck, and I will do all I can to respond to his call, to continue down the path, despite the hardships, and pass our legacy of freedom and propserity to the generations that follow.

They say that being a good leader is about the ability to inspire people to do that which their better selves already know that they should do. I would say in that regard, we have an excellent leader. Lemur, you're got to fine a loop of the speech. Maybe it's the emotion of the moment, but it's one of the best, one of the most inspiring, I've ever seen or heard.

As an aside, did anybody else notice CNN's cameras zoom in on Bush when Obama uttered the line about "not sacraficing our principles for our security"? Bush looked like he had swallowed a bug.