<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Obama Takes the Oath</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On an early November day<br>when the last oak leaves<br>clung to barren branches, <br>Americans from Maine to L.A.<br>set aside their labors<br>to ring the freedom bell -<br>one ballot at a time<br>and decreed the time had come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so on a frigid January day <br>an eloquent man with African DNA, <br>placed a hand on Lincoln's bible <br>and vowed allegiance to us all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Barack Obama's family <br>resides in America's home -<br>wrought a few scant yesterdays past<br>by the arms and backs<br>of human chattel who<br>though severed from their sacred liberty<br>held fast to their singing souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So with hope - filled mending hearts, <br>we entrust our nation's wheel<br>to the steady hand <br>of a calm and pensive man<br>who, in his vision, would dare <br>to unite the heavens with the soil -<br>one aspiration at a time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">January 20, 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Charles+Howard">Robert Charles Howard</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566913" data-title="Obama Takes the Oath de Robert Charles Howard" data-description="On an early November day when the last oak leaves clung to barren branches, Americans from Maine to L.A. set aside their labors to ring the freedom bell - one ballot at a time and decreed the time had come. And so on a frigid January day an elo..."></div> </div> </div>

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