President Obama: The message and the moment

The World

For weeks speechwriters, politicians and pundits have been forecasting the policy and prose that President Obama would deliver in his inaugural address. Now that the greatly anticipated speech has happened, we turn to contributor David Wall Rice for his assessment of the message and the moment. David Wall Rice is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Morehouse College. He joins us from Washington, D.C.

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