still kind of weepy
Jan. 20th, 2009 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaks"But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old." -Barack Obama, 01/20/09
Curiosity. Can anyone recall the last time that was listed as a virtue in political discourse in the U.S., not to mention listed as an old and trusted value?
I was delighted at his inclusion of non-believers; I was thrilled by his invocation of science. And 'we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals' is something I have been waiting to hear from someone in power for far, far too long.
But. Tolerance and curiosity. Almost a throw-away line.
That's the part that got to me.
ETA: also, how awesome is it that we are living in a time where I can be certain of accurate access to the full text of the inaugural address starting basically as it is given? Didn't we used to have to wait for the next edition of the newspaper? It is one of those living-in-the-future moments.
In other news, YAY!
Curiosity. Can anyone recall the last time that was listed as a virtue in political discourse in the U.S., not to mention listed as an old and trusted value?
I was delighted at his inclusion of non-believers; I was thrilled by his invocation of science. And 'we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals' is something I have been waiting to hear from someone in power for far, far too long.
But. Tolerance and curiosity. Almost a throw-away line.
That's the part that got to me.
ETA: also, how awesome is it that we are living in a time where I can be certain of accurate access to the full text of the inaugural address starting basically as it is given? Didn't we used to have to wait for the next edition of the newspaper? It is one of those living-in-the-future moments.
In other news, YAY!
