Edward Luce: It did not emulate the brevity of Abraham Lincoln, who squeezed his second inaugural address into 701 words (yes, considerably shorter than this piece). But at triple Lincoln’s length, Barack Obama was certainly briefer than his own more prolix self in 2009. He was also more directly political. Then Steven Spielberg famously said … Continue reading “Together, We Will Pursue My Objectives”; an interesting summary of the President’s Inauguration Speech