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Barry O. Takes Over

In honour of Barry Obama’s inauguration a year ago this week…

On three occasions in American history, the man being sworn in as President worried that under the circumstances, he might be the last.

The first was George Washington, who observed in 1789 that “I walk on untrodden ground”, and knew that everything thing he did set a precedent. He worried constantly that if the precedents he set were wrong, there would be no second President.

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