Obama Inaugural Address Challenges Tea Party History

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http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/6778/obama_inaugural_address_challenges_tea_party_history/


January 21, 2013 4:40pm
Post by JULIE INGERSOLL


That’s right; history is always written by the winners and beneath our current dividedness is a battle over the historical narrative that determines how we understand the past and how we will shape the future.

President Obama’s second inaugural address set the stage for meeting the right head-on in the battle for the right to shape that story. Much will be written about the stunningly beautiful diversity and the unbridled embrace of a progressive political agenda. But just as important, I think, is that the president finally challenged the tea partiers’ claim to represent the “real America” (suggesting that the rest of us are not).


The old narrative has us “fighting for freedom” around the world, and the stirring version of The Battle Hymn of the Republic included “as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free,” when the more common version these days calls on us to “live to make men free.”

Yet even with regard to the way military force has been central to what it means to be American, the president presented a new narrative, asserting that “peace and lasting security do not mean we are in a state of perpetual war.”

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1. I sure hope progressive diverse America wins out.

I was fearful the right would take over the government and turn this country into a third world country but the minorities would not let them have their way.
I'm one of those old white guys who believes that what is good for minorities is good for me.

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2. Orwellian ring . . .

I have never agreed with the notion that we should accept our nation being destined for a, "perpetual war," or a, "generational war on terror." Both concepts have a far too Orwellian ring to them for my taste. What were the three slogans? Lets see:

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."

I'll go for, "Live to make men free," over those any day.