He then says, "So now, on this hallowed ground [of the Capitol] where just days ago [on January 6, 2021], violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundation, we come together as one nation, under God, indivisible, to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries."
Subsequently, President Biden says, "Few periods in our nation's history have been more challenging or difficult that the one we're in now." Amen to that, I say.
President Biden says, "To overcome these challenges - to restore the soul and to secure the future of America - requires more than words." Amen, I also say to this. In my estimate, to overcome these challenges will require bold and coordinated action at the federal, state, and local levels of government.
But President Biden says, "It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity."
He then pledges, "Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation."
Granted, he may be making this pledge wholeheartedly.
But he allows that this goal "can sound to some as foolish fantasy. [However,] I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we are all created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, and demonization have long torn us apart."
Subsequently, President Biden says, "In each of these [historical] moments [of crisis] enough of us came together to carry all of us forward" - just as enough of us came together to elect former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election to be the next president of the United States.
He reiterates, "And here we stand [at the Capitol], just days after a riotous mob [incited by now former President Tweety Trump] thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, and to drive us from this sacred ground. That did not happen."
Now, in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, I want here to give President Tweety credit for recognizing that the anarchic and nihilistic forces he incited on January 6, 2021, may now turn on him and his family and certain key advisers. After all, President Tweety did not officially pardon the domestic terrorists who rampaged through the Capitol. But he did recognize how those insurrectionists may endanger his family and three key advisers in the near future. Consequently, as President Tweety left office, he officially extended Secret Service protection to his adult children and three advisers - at the taxpayers' expense, of course:
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Now, President Biden says, "The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. Yet hear me clearly: Disagreement must not lead to disunion."
Then he calls for the "end of this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal." Good luck with that, Joe.
After President Biden invites everyone to join him "in a moment of silent prayer to remember all those we lost this past year to the pandemic. To those 400,000 fellow Americans - mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters, friends, neighbors, and co-workers."
President Biden says, "We will be judged, you and I, for how we resolve the cascading crises of our era."
He pledges, "I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities. Not of personal interest, but of the public good [also known as the common good in Catholic social teaching]."
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