No way to escape. Right hand raised, the other resting on the Bible: the photo of Barack Obama, the new president of the United States taking the oath, is in all your newspapers this morning. "Barack Obama promises to rebuild America" as soberly business daily Les Echos . More incisive the Humanity : "Obama America against storms" .
"Reconstruction," "Promise," "challenges": these words come back to length of columns in the press this morning. And if all the editors welcome the inauguration of President Obama, evoke some skepticism. "Finally, the difficulties begin" , launches and Mougeotte in Figaro . "Americans have elected Obama to avert the crisis, revive the economy, save their homes, protect their pensions, improve Medicare, defend their environment." short, concludes the editorialist, "Still Will it be that Barack Obama has the means to keep its promises."
Moreover, as The Tribune , "for Obama, the recovery begins today" . On the menu that first day at the White House: the withdrawal from Iraq, closing Guantanamo and the anti-crisis plan. "The first day in power sets the tone for a presidency" recalls some.
Millions of people seized by the "Obamania"
press returns course details on the inauguration ceremony which was attended yesterday nearly two million people on the Mall in Washington. Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France traces "movie day" when the ceremony millimeter Figaro tells how "all night, danced in Washington cocktail parties and crowded."
Liberation offers a gallery of portraits of these Americans "who have crossed the country to see Obama." "This is a day of joy, not only for blacks but for everyone, we have only to look around and we see a real patchwork of people from different cultures who came attend this incredible event. "
" Time for a ceremony in the freezing cold, Obamania has warmed the entire planet "enthuses Hervé Cannet in The New Republic of Center.
In France, too, we celebrated the inauguration of Obama. As in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis. Asked by Le Parisien , a dozen young people tell their evening. Glued to their TV, they have not lost one bit of the ceremony. And the inaugural speech for Obama.
"A discourse of crisis"
The inaugural speech was just discussed at length. Some newspapers, like Liberation or Figaro , publish the text in its entirety . For release, Obama landed president crisis opening the "era of responsibility" . "No great flight, no rhetorical purpose in raising the crowd," said Laurent Joffrin in its editorial. "Barack Obama delivered a speech sober, thoughtful, far from the hypnotic charisma that allowed him to launch his campaign."
For Michel Lépinay of Paris Normandy , Obama "has done the exercise with eloquence , summarizing all the positions developed during his election campaign. " Even in tone Press Channel: the speech was "generous, unifying, pacifying" . Obama "embodies the end of a nightmare, segregation and racism" writes Jean Levallois.
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