Johnston: Against difficult odds
WASHINGTON
In perusing President Barack Obama’s speeches before yesterday, one might have expected him to use the occasion of his inaugural address for rhetorical flair, as in his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention: “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America.”
Perhaps he would reflect on the challenge of racial reconciliation, as he did in his response to the controversy surrounding his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the...
