Our view: President Obama’s second term
When Barack Obama takes his second oath of office as president Monday, he will be pledging to lead a country very different from the one he took the helm of four years ago.
The hope his campaign promised permeated the air in January 2009 when he first took office, with the notion the next four years would be unlike any we’d ever seen.
That was true – but perhaps not the way it had been imagined.
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