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By AMY DILUNA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, January 20th 2009

Budding style stars Malia and Sasha Obama are proving to be fashion loyalists. For the past two days, the girls have worn head-to-toe outfits f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8506 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:06:48 WP political blog, "The Fix," by Chris Cillizza
Obama's Inauguration Speech: First Thoughts

....• Somber and Serious: Obama's address was almost entirely free of campaign style rhetoric or obvious applause lines. Its seriousness of tone contrasted sharply with the mood of the masses gathered to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8505 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:50:54 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

In keeping with the theme that swept President Obama into the Oval Office, change has come to the official White House Web site.

Almost at the instant Obama was sworn in, www.whitehouse.gov relaunched with a redesign to signal a new era in government. Gone was the staid site o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8504 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:21:01 NYT: January 20, 2009
Man in a Hurry
Timothy Egan

He seemed to stumble, just for an instant, in the gallop to get over the threshold during the transfer of power, after Chief Justice Roberts flubbed the words of the most powerful paragraph in the land. Taking the oath of office on Lincoln’s le... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8503 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:02 LAT: Michelle Obama's inauguration wardrobe reviewed
Booth Moore

Just as President Barack Obama turned the page on American history Tuesday in Washington, First Lady Michelle Obama is turning the page on American design. The lacy lemon-grass ensemble she chose for the swearing-in ceremony wasn’... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8502 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:27:39 TIME: Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: Humility, Gratitude, Sacrifice
By Nancy Gibbs Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

Humility, gratitude and sacrifice. From his first words, Barack Obama let us know that even on a day so bright he was not blinded. Not by the cloud of witnesses in front of him. Not by t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8501 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:38:09 CNN: President Obama's Inaugural Address

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My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8499 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:03:36 Barack Obama Essay: Martin Luther King Day
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 19, 2009

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On the day of the first inauguration to take place in this city, a small band of citizens gathered to watch Thomas J... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8498 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:42:43 Financial Times: Power switch
By Our Washington Staff
January 19 2009

A new occupant in the White House is always a harbinger of change in Washington, this election made all the more visible with a 47-year-old African-American from Chicago taking over from a 62-year-old white Texan. Barack Ob... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8497 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:01:11 WP political blog, "The Fix," by Chris Cillizza
Obama's Opportunity

When Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's 44th president tomorrow at noon, he will inherit a country in the midst of a financial crisis of seemingly limitless proportions, a nation seeking to come to grips with its proper ro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8496 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:21:47 WP: Restless Searcher on an Improbable Path
By David Maraniss
The Washington Post
Sunday, January 18, 2009

....There is improbability in the making of any president, some more than others, none comparable to Obama. From Lincoln to Truman to Clinton, the cast of American presidents who came ou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8495 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:32:39 LAT: Michelle Obama chooses L.A. jeweler Loree Rodkin
Booth Moore

Something old, something new, something borrowed ... Michelle Obama chose some pricey diamond chandelier earrings by local jeweler Loree Rodkin to accent the camel and black Narciso Rodriguez skirt and coat she wore to the "We Ar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8494 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:57:45 NYT: From Books, New President Found Voice
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: January 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — In college, as he was getting involved in protests against the apartheid government in South Africa, Barack Obama noticed, he has written, “that people had begun to listen to my opinions.” ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8493 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:09:43 LAT: Michelle Obama Chooses Narciso Rodriguez Again
Booth Moore

Undeterred by the stir caused by her red-and-black Narciso Rodriguez election night dress, Michelle Obama chose to wear a camel-and-black color-block coat and skirt by the New York designer for the "We Are One" concert in Washingto... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8492 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:58:37 WP: Why the Uniter Divided Us
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Monday, January 19, 2009; A19

There are many reasons why most Americans are not mourning President Bush's departure. But our new president would do well to concentrate on the deeper causes of the public's disaffection with the man headed to Tex... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8491 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:24:40 President-Elect Sees His Race as An Opportunity
By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 19, 2009; A01

Throughout his barrier-breaking presidential campaign, Barack Obama avoided calling direct attention to race, long a divisive force in electoral politics. But now, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8490 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:05:59 NYT: Obama Reaches Out for McCain’s Counsel
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 18, 2009

WASHINGTON — Not long after Senator John McCain returned last month from an official trip to Iraq and Pakistan, he received a phone call from President-elect Barack Obama. As contenders for the pr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8489 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:40:54 NYT: Lyrical Messages About an Inclusive America
By JON PARELES
Published: January 18, 2009

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Bruce Springsteen performed at “We Are One,” a concert on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial celebra... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8488 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:20:55 A New National Scripture
By ANTHONY LEWIS
Published: January 16, 2009

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....“I have a dream” is the refrain by which (the speech the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the March on Washington in 1963) is known — better k... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8487 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:43:48 Source: [b]NYT, Page One, lead story[/b]

President-elect Barack Obama is riding a powerful wave of optimism into the White House, with Americans confident he can turn the economy around but prepared to give him years to deal with the crush of problems he faces starting Tuesday, according to the lat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8486 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:05:52 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

Hours after Israel and Hamas both said they would abide by a fragile cease-fire in Gaza, top Obama advisor David Axelrod told CNN’s John King Sunday to expect the president-elect to take diplomatic action worldwide “early and aggressively” after he’s sworn in, using career diplom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8485 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:28:25 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

A new national poll suggests that Barack Obama is more popular than ever, regardless of recent speed bumps on the road to transition. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Sunday morning also indicates that most Americans see Obama's inauguration as a chance for th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8480 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:13:53 WP op-ed: At Long Last, Ready for the Real Deal
By Maya Angelou
Sunday, January 18, 2009; Page B05

In September 2008, I was invited to introduce Michelle Obama at an event in Greensboro, N.C. I had met her fleetingly during the Democratic National Convention in Boston, but I had no real sense... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/DeepModem Mom/8477 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:30:53 WP: His Way With Words: Cadence and Credibility
By Henry Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 17, 2009

....As much as anything else, Obama won the presidency with words.

Obama is an orator....

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