Inaugurated!

[pallas_athena]

The key point came about halfway through the the inaugural address:

"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake."

Strip out the political rhetoric ("light the world", whatever), and what's left is a sentiment that I've been waiting to hear uttered from a position of power for the last eight years. I can't really describe what it feels like to hear those words now.

Also, we now have a president who can pronounce the word "nuclear." Holy fuck. This really is a new era.