Here we go with the inaugural address, spotlighting passages that are overwritten:
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace.
Come on. This is schoolboy stuff. So is this:
Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.
I’m offended.
At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.
Ditto.
More to come . . .
Blithe Spirit 
Oh, you are tough, but I look foward to more of your critique. His delivery was something else, too. Enough already with the sideward glances at the end of every line, then the return to center and that “Oh what a good boy I am” look on his face, waiting for applause that mostly didn’t come. For performance and content, I’d say he was mechanical, insincere, unreal.
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Different parts of the speech clumsily sought to evoke (though ultimately, they invoked them) different famous orators (e.g., forcing a couple of words Lincoln had used into a foreign context). These particular images were meant to honor that platitudinous plagiarist, MLK.
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