I am sitting here listening to Barack Obama's inauguration speech. My colleagues, as doubtless in other offices around the country, are glued to the screen. If oratory and rhetoric could be bottled, and help to relaunch the economy and even bring peace to the Middle East, then surely this man has the capacity to do it. Very few people have the ability to inspire; for once, let us cast aside cynicism, and pray that President Obama can do the job. We will all benefit if that hope comes true.