Opinion

Obama inauguration was 'overwhelming'

Posted January 30, 2009 10:00 pm

The awesome pageantry and sheer magnitude of the inauguration of our 44th President was overwhelming for me. Only time is capable of sorting it all out and bringing into clear focus exactly what happened on that 20th day of January, 2009. Our finite minds work feverishly to coalesce the knows of the past with the unknowns of the future in order to bring reassurance and calm out of turmoil. We are drowning in words. In attempting to put the finest of points to an ultimate definition of elevating a man of color to the level of the United States presidency, we can only diminish the inconceivable magnitude of the event. It has raised an entire race to a level of equivalence only cautiously dreamed of and fervently hoped for generation after generation.

Marianne Avery

Wheaton

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