President Barack Obama was officially sworn-in for a second term on Sunday, but Monday featured the Inaugural Speech by the commander-in-chief.
The speech is done and now the media and pundits are reviewing it.
Fox News commentator Sean Hannity opened his show with an editorial, first commenting on the president's speech.
"First, it was the most partisan and divisive inaugural address in living memory," said Hannity. "Now, there was the veneer of unity and common purpose, but it's always unity and common purpose as a means to an end. And in the end, what Obama defines is advancing his own left-wing agenda."
The conservative host noted the speech had "jabs" aimed at Republicans and conservatives.
"So what Obama was saying with the speech is this -- I am going to protect all the liberal beings of the last century in terms of not doing anything to deal with entitlement programs, and I'm going to try to break new ground whole new in areas, global warming, gay rights, gun control," the Fox News host later added.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer spoke about President Obama's speech, stating it as unmemorable yet "historically important." He added that the inaugural speech was an end to the era of "Reaganism."
This speech today was an ode to big government," Krauthammer said.
"It did seem that he wasn't doing the kind of outreach that he needs to do if he wants to get things accomplished in a second term," said Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune to The Hill.
Republican Arizona Senator John McCain said, "I would have liked to have seen some outreach. This is the eighth [inauguration] that I've been to and always there's been a portion of the speech where [the president says], 'I reach out my hand because we need to work together.' That wasn't in this speech."
Chris Matthews from MSNBC compared the president's speech to the 16th commander-in-chief.
"It reminds me of another second inaugural, Lincoln's, so much of Lincoln in that speech, from the Gettysburg Address to the second inaugural itself," said Matthews. "He talked about the government that we want, which is infrastructure, education, regulation, all the good things, and then recognizing that government can't solve all the problems."
For the transcript of President Obama's Inaugural speech, click here.
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