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[00:00.50]Dear friends, I think it's now, time to at least have a first balance sheet,
[00:07.76] not the last, the first balance sheet of the Obama presidency
[00:13.97]As many of you know the images of the campaign are still vivid
[00:19.93]Big, large mobilizations in the United States,
[00:23.31]of young people primarily, desperate for change
[00:30.47]And the slogan of that campaign: Change We Can Believe In"
[00:35.44]Change Change Change
[00:38.20]But what has changed and what hasn't changed
[00:41.17]There has been of course been a change in the presidency,
[00:47.38]and we can't complain too much about that (Laughter)
[00:54.16]There is a new vice-president also in the United States,
[00:58.27]and we can't complain too much about that (Laughter and Applause)
[01:04.55]But the Defence Secretary is the same.
[01:09.03]That's the guy who sits in the pentagon and organizes wars,
[01:13.07]and the reason he was kept on was to show that there is,
[01:17.56]there are both elements of discontinuity at the top
[01:22.28]And very strong elements of continuity
[01:26.71]And the reason for that, is that
[01:31.25]if you wear Caesar's clothes, you have to behave like Caesar