1/22 assignment

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President Barack Obama was sworn in to his second term in Washington D.C. The president defeated Mitt Romney in a close presidential race last November. In his speech he brought up issues he will try to tackle during the next four years. He has high hopes for our country going into the future. He brought up ways to help our economy and how to get more jobs in the US. He emphasized that our country needs to stay together as a whole to get past these difficult time. In particularly pointed references, the president made a forceful call for gay rights that equated the issue with the struggle for women's rights in the 19th century and civil rights in the 1960s. More cheers came when Obama called for "our gay brothers and sisters" to be treated "like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well." Obama made a reference to gun control, saying that the nation needed to ensure that "all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm." The President has a lot to do in the next 4 years.