"We Reject as False the Choice between Our Safety and Our Ideals"

This was clearly a direct swipe at the outgoing administration, right there, on their faces. No, it was not all Kumbaya. Obama, swiftly, gently scolded Bush and the Bushiites.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.  Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations.  Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.  And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born:  know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Lead once more. As in during Bill Clinton's years.

This is the difference between the Right and everyone else. Just looking at the inauguration, we all know it would have been all USA USA USA, we are number ONE, we will kick your ass. Their politicians use fear to justify torture - or else we are all going to die.

The contrast obviously is

Sick.