In many ways, Barack Obama's second inaugural speech was utterly characteristic: he began with the Declaration of Independence, which conservatives have worked mightily over the past four years to put to the service of their own ideology and agenda...and then used it as the keystone on which to construct the argument for his own, far more progressive, vision and agenda.Consider this an open thread for discussing the speech, or anything else related to today's inaugural ceremonies.

Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons. 

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