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Obama Seeks Renewal of Optimism at Second Inauguration
After four years of partisan battle, President Barack Obama sought to rekindle optimism at the start of his second term, challenging Americans to fight together for the ideals of equality and opportunity on which the nation was founded. “My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- so long as we seize it together,” Obama said after taking the ceremonial oath of office before dignitaries and hundreds of thousands of cheering onlookers packed into the National Mall from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument. “We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a ... (full story)