OBAMA'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS (from COMMON CENTS)

The editors at COMMON CENTS, in the interest of bi-partisanship, unity and the common good have taken upon themselves to write President-elect Obama's inaugural address. The speech tomorrow may vary slightly but then again - it may not.

My fellow Americans - I come before you today with a message of hope. Without hope we are hopeless and lacking in hope. When we lack hope we are without hope up to and until that time when we transform to lacking in hope to having hope. Once we have hope we will no longer be without hope as the very act of obtaining hope will replace the hopelessness and we will no longer be lacking hope as our hopelessness is replaced with hope.

Now this administration is committed to the future. In this administration we will no longer be afraid of the future but will embrace the future as the future lies beyond the present. But as the future approaches it becomes the present and will eventually become the past. Thus the future will only remain the future until it becomes the present and the present will quickly turn into the past. Now we must be committed to embracing the future before it becomes the present and eventually the past. If we do not act quickly and with resolve the future will become the present and the past as I have already explained. So this administration will always be willing and able to embrace and not be afraid of the future as it will eventually be the present and then the past.

Now we more than anything we have ran on a message of change. If you only remember one thing remember this "Without change we remain unchanged and if we remain unchanged will will not change". If we are afraid to change we will not change and will remain unchanged as it is only changing that we change. If we do not change it is undeniable that we will remain unchanged and there will be no change. So I urge you my fellow Americans to embrace that change that we all feel less we remain unchanged. Once we have changed it will be undeniable to the naysayers and doubters that we have changed and have achieved the change that we all desire. So we will strive day and night to change and break free of the unchanged. Is it possible to be unchanged will striving for change? I say no - if one wants to change he / she will be by very definition be changed once they begin the long process of change.

So my fellow Americans in conclusion I have been very specific about the change we seek. We will not change for the sake of change but will implement this change to affect the future before it becomes the present or the past. We will have hope and use this hope to bring about the change that will change the present by implementing these polices in the present buy by looking to the future for guidance. I emplore you not to have false hope or change for the sake of change but to have hope that we will change the present which will affect the past but by looking for to the future for guidance and clairity. God bless America!