Certainly you wouldn't accuse Barack Obama of a lack of ambition in his inaugural address, text here courtesy of the BBC. He promises to tackle every threat facing anyone anywhere in the world in the next four years.
Was it soaring rhetoric? Sure. Can he deliver? That is much less certain. Will anybody hold him accountable for the inevitable failures to execute? We will try.
It is likely some of his greatest obstacles will be in his own party's congressional delegation. Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are ugly, little people with ugly, little agendas driven by class warfare and victim group politics.
