"Let the remaking of America start today" is the Guardian's headline
He promised the largely silent crowd that the challenges would be met, but warned it would take time, some sacrifice, a new form of politics and a re-engagement with the world, in which America would recognise that "power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please".
The Telegraph also calls it the remaking of America
A friend emailed Tuesday morning from New York: "In tears already and it hasn't begun." Another wrote me that her husband, horrified by reports of crowds in Washington, was "afraid there will be a stampede or something awful".
Which summed it up, really: the levels of emotion built up in advance of the 2009 presidential inauguration ceremony were so high that some wept, some fainted, and some were paralysed by fear.
The Independent says that
The transition of power in the world's most powerful land concluded, Mr Obama turned to the sea of humanity that extended far beyond the Washington Monument a mile away and issued a sometimes-blunt call to arms to everyone to "brave once more the icy currents and endure what storms may come".
Obama's promise is the headline in the Times
In a clear repudiation of the past eight years, he said that he would not abandon the principles of America’s founding fathers for expedience’s sake. “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”
The Mail reports that
History was being made up there on the hill and the atmosphere was so electrifying that it took your breath away.
Beneath a great white dome built with the sweat and blood of black slaves, an African-American was being installed as the most powerful man on the planet, and among the watching millions some were overwhelmed with emotion.
You're the Daddy says the Sun saying that
He told how he had risen to become the planet’s most powerful man in a land where his own father might once have faced racial discrimination.
Briefly away from Washington and the Independent warns that Rail passengers face cuts to services and higher prices after talks between the Government and rail chiefs over the prospect of the first fall in passenger numbers for 15 years.
The Times reports that the governor of the Bank of England paved the way last night to unleash the weapon of “printing money” in a last-ditch drive to combat the rapidly deepening recession.Meanwhile the Guardian says that John McFallchairman of the Treasury select committee, called for the complete nationalisation of Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland as both the banks shares continued to fall.
The Express reports teh words of Lord Myners who revealed that the new Treasury-backed insurance scheme for banks could be in force for up to “eight or nine years”.
The Mail says that despite the smoking ban the number of smokers giving up has barely increased Figures show that nearly a quarter fewer smokers gave up the habit between April and September last year compared to 2007.
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