In contrast, Obama's inaugural address sounded more like a memo filled with bullet points, written by a committee.
The tone of Obama's inaugural address Monday will be "hopeful, " White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Sunday.
Obama's inaugural address "was trying basically to throw a bone to every left-wing activist group he could, " said Rep. Dave Schweikert, R-Arizona.
Is it possible that Obama designed his inaugural address rhetoric to make the left feel good, and that his actual intention is to govern closer to the center?
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There was an enormous television screen with crystal-clear reception mounted on one of the ship's walls above the pool deck, and as Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address at the United States Capitol, he delivered it at the same moment here, on a speck in the ocean.
Obama had given his Inaugural Address the previous evening, laying out a program that included tax and immigration reform and emphasized support for gay marriage and gun control.
Instead, his well-written speech -- presented as a refutation of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address -- was incomplete and dominated by many of the straw-man arguments he decried.
President Barack Obama used his Second Inaugural Address to demonstrate that he knows what it means to execute as a leader.
President Obama will deliver a second inaugural address later this month.
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In this second inaugural address, Obama the Candidate became Obama the President without a trace of the bait and switch to which too many citizens have become so accustomed that in their cynicism they cease to vote at all.
In his inaugural address, Obama insisted that programs such as Social Security and Medicare -- long targets of conservatives seeking to cut the size of government -- remain vital to the maintenance of America's safety net for the elderly, poor and disabled.
In his stirring inaugural address President Barack Obama called for a new era of responsibility.
In his inaugural address, Mr Obama is not expected to preview his policy agenda on Monday.
In his inaugural address, Mr Obama said he would extend a hand to those willing to unclench their fist.
In his inaugural address, President Obama suggested that his opponents aimed to eradicate Medicare for future generations under the guise of controlling spending and boosting U.S. growth.
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With those words in his second inaugural address, President Obama perfectly defined what will be the great domestic policy debate of not only the next four years but the next decade.
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For example, President Obama has - from literally his inaugural address onwards - inflated the numbers and, in that way and others, exaggerated the contemporary and historical importance of Muslim-Americans in the United States.
In his Inaugural address on Monday, Obama mentioned the deficit only once, and in passing.
Obama, near the end of his inaugural address on Monday, made what appeared to be an oblique reference to the partisan battles between himself, the GOP-controlled House and the Senate -- where Democrats have control but do not have a filibuster-proof majority.
There were the gestures towards bipartisanship lawmaking and a shift away from the brinksmanship that has paralyzed our system that we heard from Obama on the campaign trail, in his inaugural address and during the fiscal cliff negotiations.
In his inaugural address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama emphasized "humanity and restraint" in foreign policy and rejected what he called the false choice between America's safety and America's ideals.
Three sentences into his inaugural address four years ago, Barack Obama made the first mistake of his presidency.
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Obama's "open hand" promise in his inaugural address isn't having much success around the world, and North Korea can always use new infusions of economic aid, which may well be the hidden cargo of the Clinton mission.
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At a little more than 2, 100 words, Obama's speech was about 300 shorter than his first inaugural address four years earlier.
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President Obama extolled many of the things that make America great in his inaugural address.
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Facing hundreds of members of the opposing party, Obama took a decidedly different approach than he did in his aggressive inaugural address.
Obama's post-partisan pragmatism, he has confirmed with his inaugural address, was only a useful political contrivance.
Since his re-election, Obama's stance has become more emphatic, notably with a passage in his inaugural address placing the push for marriage equality in the same context as the civil rights crusades of blacks and women.
January 2013: Obama becomes the first U.S. president to mention gays and lesbians in an inaugural address and champions same-sex marriage.
Obama's call to unity after decades of political division echoed Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address in 1861.
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