A good start

I have no idea whether Obama will be a good, mediocre or poor president, since he's so inexperienced and such a blank slate. So I will take comfort in any encouraging signs I find, and it's hard to find one much better than this snippet from his inagural speech:

"We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you."