AP Photo/Jae C. HongPresident Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address. Many of the first critical responses to President Barack Obama's inaugural address, just as to Abraham Lincoln's ...

Obama's Inaugural Speech Analyzed E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post says President Barack Obama's speech marked a break with a lot of thinking since Ronald Reagan became president.

More novel than short story, more ballad than poem -- writers agree that restraint and plain speaking were the qualities that distinguished President Obama’s inaugural address. Long on plot (and ...

It will probably be the most widely watched address ever delivered, one that will draw... Lofty expectations for Obama's inaugural speech SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Tribune columnist Eric Zorn and local pundit Chris Robling, former executive director of the Cook County Republican Party, discuss President Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech. Eric Zorn: I ...

At Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, around 1.8 million people attended the historic event. This surpassed the record of 1.2 million set in 1965 by Lyndon B. Johnson. The Queen Of Soul ...