Jan 19th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
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Barack Obama rose to the occasion last summer with this audacious address to a crowd of more than 200,000 in Berlin.
As the hours count down to his inauguration, Barack Obama must be hearing the hoofbeats of history. He certainly invokes it. Indeed, he seeks to be one of its great riders.
For all the president-elect's evocation of Abraham Lincoln -- and his own description of Lincoln in "The Audacity of Hope" as both deep-seated idealist and ultra-pragmatist was more revealing of Obama's political character than anything produced by any media outlet -- fate and his own design cast what Obama says as our brand-new president alongside somewhat more contemporary figures.
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