BillClinton.jpg Today brings William Jefferson Clinton, in 1993, talking about, why, it’s… hope and change!

Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.

A spring reborn in the world’s oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America.

When our founders boldly declared America’s independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. Not change for change’s sake, but change to preserve America’s ideals—life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

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Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...

6 replies on “Inaugural Address of the Day”

  2. Klinton was a criminal disgrace to the presidency, and his wife is a Marxist (and probably a lesbian. She had that fling with Markie Post).

    When he was impeached, had he the class of Nixon, he would have resigned. But he’s a leftist and leftists don’t understand the word “class.”

  3. … To renew America, we must be bold.

    We must do what no generation has had to do before. We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt. And we must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity.

    It will not be easy; it will require sacrifice. But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake. We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.

    Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child’s eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come …

  5. Curious how popular the “change” theme becomes after an extended period of Republican rule. Clinton took office after an even longer period of dumbfuckery than the current one. Although, in the spirit of increased American productivity, the most recent pack of Republicans fucked up the country more effectively in eight than the Reagan brain trust did in twelve.

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